Filius tetragonus primus. La philosophie trinitaire d’après le commentaire chartrain Librum hunc
This article presents a particular application of the liberal arts to theology, as that application was developed in the commentary Librum hunc (or better, Commentum super Boethii librum De trinitate), attributed to Thierry of Chartres. In an effort to synthesize, the article combines Trinitarian doc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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2012
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Sacris erudiri
Year: 2012, Volume: 51, Pages: 317-329 |
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| Summary: | This article presents a particular application of the liberal arts to theology, as that application was developed in the commentary Librum hunc (or better, Commentum super Boethii librum De trinitate), attributed to Thierry of Chartres. In an effort to synthesize, the article combines Trinitarian doctrine and the idea of the Trinitarian structure of the created universe with the Aristotelian distinction between “the numbering number” and “the numbered number.” Even though the reciprocal relation of unity (1x1), which is an image of the Son’s birth from the Father in the divine Trinity, retains the same value, it nonetheless gives rise to a duality and thus to numerical plurality. According to this analogy, the Son (as the tetragonus primus) is at the same time the perfect image of the Father and the “wisdom” that gives birth to the forms of created things. Unity and its self-expression are joined together in a reciprocal relation, i.e., the Holy Spirit, to which corresponds, in the process of cosmogenesis, the cosmic love that sets the universe in motion, that is, the desire of all things to be what they are. In God all the forms are just one simple form, a “number that numbers,” which, solely through matter, gives birth to diverse forms, to forms in the plural, that is, to “the numbered number.” |
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| ISSN: | 2295-9025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sacris erudiri
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.SE.1.103178 |