L'«infinito universo» e la distinzione «potentia absoluta / potentia ordinata» in Giordano Bruno
The distinction between potentia Dei absoluta and ordinata is taken as an example of the more general investigation into God’s attributes performed again and again by theologians throughout the Middle Ages. Indeed, if the question of potentia Dei also plays an important ro...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2012
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Annali di studi religiosi
Year: 2012, Volume: 13, Pages: 159-179 |
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| Summary: | The distinction between potentia Dei absoluta and ordinata is taken as an example of the more general investigation into God’s attributes performed again and again by theologians throughout the Middle Ages. Indeed, if the question of potentia Dei also plays an important role in the history of Western legal and political thought, originally it starts as a cosmological debate on God’s operative power. Could God have created more than only one world? And if – as was widely held throughout the Middle Ages – He created only one world, could He still create another one? Also – upon a closer look into the infinite good nature God is credited with by Christianity as well as into the problem of God’s envy (invidia Dei), fi rst discussed by Plato in his Timaeus – is the only world He is supposed to have created the best one He could have created? These were among the questions, which the mediaeval theologians of scholasticism approached, with special attention to the eleventh-century cosmological dispute between Abelard and Lombard and the very fundamental stance of Thomas Aquinas. This paper aims to show, with closer attention to the ‘new’ philosophy of Giordano Bruno, in which way early modern cosmology still resorts to the investigation into God’s almightiness that Christian theologians were engaged in throughout the Middle Ages. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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