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Sandra Visser and Thomas Williams offer a brief, accessible introduction to the life and thought of St. Anselm (c. 1033-1109). Anselm, who was Archbishop of Canterbury for the last 16 years of his life, is unquestionably one of the foremost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462700468Author Paul J. J. M. BakkerFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789061861652Author J DecorteFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 730g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789058673299Author Guy GuldentopsFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 57g

Intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and teachers, this new translation and exposition of the first two Questions of the Summa Theologiae explains the text in unprecedented detail. The famous "Five Ways" of Aquinas receive...

This book is a systematic introduction to moral philosophy (or as it is also called: ethics) that aims at raising its readers' ethical literacy and competence. Starting from the nature and end of this science it examines the fundamental questions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503572338Author James L SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 748g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845405076Author John McHughFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300g

Drawn from a wide range of writings and featuring state-of-the-art translations, Basic Works offers convenient access to Thomas Aquinas' most important discussions of nature, being and essence, divine and human nature, and ethics and human action. The...

The authors of the standard approach to Bonaventure's aesthetics established the broad themes that continue to inform the current interpretation of his philosophy, theology, and mysticism of beauty: his definition of beauty and its status as a...

"What is this 'principle' (principium) in which God is said to have created heaven and earth?" This is the first question Eckhart poses at the very beginning of his Commentary on Genesis. In the course of this book a space is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783402040089Author Stephen A HippFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Aschendorff VerlagPublisher Aschendorff VerlagWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782711628551Author Jean-Baptiste BrenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Librarie Philosophique J. VrinPublisher Librarie Philosophique J...

The Notory Art of Shorthand (Ars notoria notarie), an important yet understudied late medieval work, is newly edited here and presented for the first time in English translation along with an introduction and commentary. This unique...

Ranulph Higden's Speculum curatorum was composed in England about 1350. Book II treats the types and originating circumstances of all sin, but mostly focuses on the seven capital sins: pride, avarice, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and...

This volume contains the first publication in book form of an English translation of Thomas Aquinas's controversial disputed question De unione Verbi incarnati. This disputed question is a remarkable portal into the Angelic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503544366Author Carmen Angela CvetkovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 281Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 2220g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503528731Author LM De RijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 6250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503555287Author A FidoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 499g

One of the most learned men of his day and called "the philosopher" by contemporaries, George Amiroutzes (c. 1400-c. 1469) attended the Council of Florence (1438-39) as a lay scholar in the Greek delegation. As a high government official in his native...

This volume presents papers from sixteen established scholars who investigate the intellectual connections between the Greek East and the Latin West in the crucial period between the conquest and sack of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade and the close...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783402040140Author Andrew TraverFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Aschendorff VerlagPublisher Aschendorff VerlagWeight(grams) 258g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783402102169Author Mechthild DreyerFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Aschendorff VerlagPublisher Aschendorff VerlagWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782711628827Author BonaventureFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Librarie Philosophique J. VrinPublisher Librarie Philosophique J. VrinWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789070419028Author Hag BraakhuisFormat PaperbackPage Count 417Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols PublishersWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503505152Author J MarenbonFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 739g

Providing an excellent overview of the latest thinking in Maimonides studies, this book uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed contains a naturalistic doctrine of salvation after death. The author...

Abu'l-Barakat is a renowned philosopher of the Arabic-Jewish milieu who composed in his magnum opus the Kitab al-Mu'tabar, a comprehensive metaphysics which challenged the accepted notions of the traditional metaphysical philosophy. 'Abu'l-Barakat...

A student's guide to the life and work of Augustine, widely read in Philosophy and Christian Theology, but a notoriously challenging thinker.Western theology and philosophy without Augustine is almost inconceivable. He turned Pauline eschatology into a...

The multi-author Essays in Later Mediaeval Metaphysics focuses primarily on 13th and 14th century Latin treatments of some of the most important metaphysical issues as conceived by many of the most important thinkers of the day. Thomas Aquinas, John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462700048Author Gordon A. WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 57g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789061864486Author G. WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 342Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789061861584Author R MackenFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 816g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789058675644Author Girard J. EtzkornFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462702448Author Matthew S. ChampionFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 575g

Theologians and church lawyers in William Ockham's time generally agreed that a pope could become a heretic. According to Ockham, that had happened with Pope John XXII. The first part of Ockham's Dialogue is intended to show that John was a heretic, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462703568Author Franziska van BurenFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 480g

This book offers a new reading of Aquinas’s views on faith. The author argues that the theological nature of faith is crucial to Aquinas’s thought, and that it gives rise to a particular and otherwise incomprehensible relationship with reason.The first...

This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in the history of philosophy, focusing on points of interaction between discrete historical contexts, religions, and cultures found within the premodern period. The contributions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890318208Author Saint Thomas AquinasFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 454g