Saint Thomas and Avicenna in the ‘De Potentia Dei’
A student of the works of St. Thomas Aquinas once made the comment that if the Summa theologiae is, as its prologue indicates, the book of the pupil, then the Quaestiones disputatae is the book of the master. And with equal enthusiasm another scholar remarked that though he was eighty years old and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1948
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Traditio
Year: 1948, Volume: 6, Pages: 105-159 |
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| Summary: | A student of the works of St. Thomas Aquinas once made the comment that if the Summa theologiae is, as its prologue indicates, the book of the pupil, then the Quaestiones disputatae is the book of the master. And with equal enthusiasm another scholar remarked that though he was eighty years old and had been devoted to study from his youth, he had drawn more profit from the three or four years devoted to the study of the Quaestiones disputatae than from the rest of his life. The rich and detailed treatment of the Disputed Questions has not lacked admirers, yet in the history of Thomistic literature that admiration has been tempered by a difficulty in understanding the unity and organization of certain groups of those questions, notably the Quaestiones disputatae de potentia Dei. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Traditio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900004372 |
