The King and the Leaden Coin: The Economic Background of ‘Sine Qua Non’ Causality

In 1255, in his commentary on the fourth book of Peter Lombard's Sentences, Thomas Aquinas rejected a solution to the problem of sacramental causality, one that was enjoying a certain degree of popularity in the mid-thirteenth century. The opinion that Thomas rejected was that the sacraments ef...

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Main Author: Courtenay, William J. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press 1972
In: Traditio
Year: 1972, Volume: 28, Pages: 185-209
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