Housing the powers? What powers? Soul powers -- powers that shape the
lives of human souls. They may be housed, and exercised, by those
souls or by other agents. This book is about views on that subject
developed by Christian philosophical theologians in western Europe
from the mid-12th to the early 14th century, with some borrowing of
thoughts from their Islamic counterparts. Chapters 1 to 3 discuss in
increasing breadth and depth those theologians' views about their own
housing and exercise of soul powers. Chapters 4 to 8 discuss their
views as to the possibility of some of our soul powers being
outsourced -- that is, housed and exercised by God or a super-human
emanation of God. Chapter 4 is about outsourcing the subject -- in an
Islamic form that postulated an outsourcing of intellectual thinking
from individual human beings to a single intellect that is eternally
emanated from God and is the sole thinker of all the thoughts that
humans ever think. That theory attracted the interest, though not the
agreement, of European Christian philosophers. They found ideas of
outsourcing the object, rather than the subject, of religious thought
more congenial. The remaining four chapters of the book deal with that
more congenial topic. In chapters 5 and 6 the focus is mainly on
divine gifts of knowledge and understanding, and in chapters 7 and 8
on gifts of action and willing or desire.
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Medieval Debates about Dependence on God
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ISBN
9780192676801
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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