In perfect future. The End of Time in Augustine, the apocalyptic and Gnostic Jimenez, Jimenez Luis Felipe Mirabilia 11,Tiempo y Eternidad en la Edad Media, Jun-Dez (2010) Abstract Augustine’s reflection on time, from the level of individual salvation and the transcendence of the heavenly city located from the beginning on Earth, able to characterize or shape of medieval […]
Saint Augustine: Faith, Hope and Charity
January 1, 2011 By
Saint Augustine: Faith, Hope and Charity Detoni, Emerson Mirabilia 11, Time and Eternity in the Middle Ages, Jun-Dec (2010) Abstract Before the God’s revelation, that proposes his salvation project, the human being is invited to answer through faith, hope and charity. Believing, waiting and loving the man place himself into the dynamic of the existence towards to God. […]
Christian Emperors, Christian Church and the Jews of the Diaspora in the Greek East, CE 379-450
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Ammianus Marcellinus And The Anger Of Julian
November 18, 2010 By
Ammianus Marcellinus And The Anger Of Julian By Barbara Sidwell Iris: Journal of the Classical Association of Victoria, Vol.21 (2008) Introduction: The Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 330-395) provides, amongst historical facts, exhaustive accounts of battles and sieges, literary topoi and a complex historiography, including a detailed account of the emotional reactions of emperors and […]
The Fall of Humanity: Weakness of the Will and Moral Responsibility in the Later Augustine
November 2, 2010 By
The Fall of Humanity: Weakness of the Will and Moral Responsibility in the Later Augustine A. Pang-White, Ann (University of Scranton) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 9 (2000) Abstract Akrasia (or, weakness of the will), often defined as “the moral state of agents who act against their better judgment”—a definition first given by Aristotle in the […]
Augustine’s Ambivalence About Temporality: His Two Accounts of Time
October 26, 2010 By
Augustine’s Ambivalence About Temporality: His Two Accounts of Time Gross, Charlotte (North Carolina State University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 8 (1999) Abstract At the close of his discussion of time in Book 11 of the Confessions (397– 401), Augustine abandons his empirical inquiry for an impassioned prayer. He writes: Behold, my life is a dispersion […]
Splendid Vices? Augustine For and Against Pagan Virtues
October 26, 2010 By
Splendid Vices? Augustine For and Against Pagan Virtues Irwin, T. H. (Cornell University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 8 (1999) Abstract Augustine is notorious for his claim that the so-called virtues of pagans are not genuine virtues at all. Bayle refers to this claim when he describes the sort of virtue that one ought to be […]
Augustine on Theological Fatalism: The Argument of De Libero Arbitrio
October 1, 2010 By
Augustine on Theological Fatalism: The Argument of De Libero Arbitrio Hunt, David P. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 1 (1996) Abstract Recent critiques of theological fatalism-the position that divine foreknowledge is incompatible with creaturely freedom-have tended to attach themselves to one or another of the analyses put forward by various medieval thinkers. The […]
The Polemical Context and Content of Gregory of Nyssa’s Psychology
September 29, 2010 By
The Polemical Context and Content of Gregory of Nyssa’s Psychology Barnes, Michel R. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 4 (1994) Abstract In this article I will examine Gregory’s use of then contemporary philosophical psychology, specifically Aristotelian psychology, to support a pro-Nicene Trinitarian theology. Such arguments are offered by Gregory as part of his polemic against […]
Augustine on Original Perception
September 17, 2010 By
Augustine on Original Perception Obertello, Luca Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991) Abstract The image of God in the human person is to be found, according to St. Augustine, in the “highest part” of the human mind, to which he reserves the name mens.ι “One’s mind [mens],” he says, “is not of the same […]
Jovinian : a monastic heretic in late-fourth century Rome
May 23, 2009 By
In 393 the monk Jovinian was condemned by a Roman synod under Pope Siricius. The monk had argued from Scriptural evidence that married women were equal in merit with widows and virgins; that they who had been baptised in fullness of faith could not be overthrown by the devil
Religion, Women and Politics in Imperial Rome (4th-5th century A.D.)
December 10, 2008 By
The aim of this study is to look at the close relations and certain continuity existing between the pagan and Christian ideologies concerning the role played by women of the aristocracy and by the image of women associated with political power.
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