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  • The Metaphysics of Christology in the Late Middle Ages: William of Ockham to Gabriel Biel

    The Metaphysics of Christology in the Late Middle Ages by Cross, Richard;

    William of Ockham to Gabriel Biel

    Series: Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 11 August 2023

    • ISBN 9780198880646
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages342 pages
    • Size 240x165x25 mm
    • Weight 684 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This book explores how a standard framework for Christological opinion based on the thought of John Duns Scotus and Hervaeus Natalis was established in the late medieval period. It also examines several alternative positions, providing an essential background for the understanding of Reformation Christology.

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    The late middle ages was a period of great speculative innovation in Christology, within the framework of a standard Christological opinion established by the Franciscan John Duns Scotus and the Dominican Hervaeus Natalis. According to this view, the Incarnation consists in some kind of dependence relationship between an individual human nature and a divine person. The Metaphysics of Christology in the Late Middle Ages: William of Ockham to Gabriel Biel explores ways in which this standard opinion was developed in the late middle ages. Theologians offered various proposals about the nature of the relationship--as a categorial relation, or an absolute quality, or even just the divine will.

    Author Richard Cross also considers alternative positions: Peter Auriol's claim that the divine person is a 'quidditative termination' of the human nature; the homo assumptus theology of John Wyclif and Jan Hus; and the retrieval of a truly Thomistic Christology in the fifteenth century in the thought of John Capreolus and Denys the Carthusian. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were pre-eminently the age of nominalism, and this book examines the impact of nominalism on Christological discussions, as well as the development of Thomist and Scotist theology in the period. It also provides essential background for the correct understanding of Reformation Christology.

    Admittedly, this study illustrates the challenges posed by the original sources, but the reader will find it worth the effort.

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    Table of Contents:

    Abbreviations
    Introduction: The character of late medieval Christology
    I: The opinio communis
    The tradition of Hervaeus Natalis
    Oxford after Scotus
    The tradition of Scotus
    The opinio communis without real relations
    Christological semantics and the impact of nominalism
    II: Alternative trajectories
    Peter Auriol
    Unions by perichoresis and activity
    Homo assumptus Christologies
    The recovery of a Thomist tradition
    Conclusion: Some programmes for Christology
    Bibliography
    Index

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