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Hagar's Vocation

Philosophy's Role in the Theology of Richard Fishacre, Op [Hardback]

by R. James Long

    • Author

      R. James Long

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      The Catholic University of America Press

    • Published

      April 2015

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    Genesis 16 tells of Abraham conceiving Ishmael with his wife Sarai's servant Hagar. Dominican Friar Richard Fishacre (ca. 1200-1248) used this Biblical narrative to explore the relationship of the natural and Divine sciences. Fishacre believed that the theologian must first study the world, before he could be fruitful as a theologian. How do the natural sciences, in short, help us better understand the Scriptures? Fishacre, like his contemporaries Albert the Great (ca. 1200-1280) and Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) looked at ways that the newly-translated natural philosophy of Aristotle, with its empirical emphasis and a belief that knowledge begins in sense perception, could supplement the more otherworldly Neoplatonic approach to philosophy and the sciences inherited from St. Augustine. Hagar's Vocation is a collection of fifteen essays which focus on the contributions of Richard Fishacre, the first Dominican theologian at Oxford to have left a written legacy.
    The questions addressed by Fishacre include his arguments for God's existence, the multi-faceted problem of the human soul, the eternity of the world, the nature of light, the free choice of the will, angels and ""spiritual matter,"" interiority and self-knowledge, undoing the past and God's absolute power, the magical arts, and the role of philosophy in a theology of creation. R. James Long, the world's leading authority on Fishacre, in this volume promises to establish this hitherto little studied English friar as a major figure in the development of a learned or philosophically grounded theology that remains the great achievement of High Scholasticism.

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    • Author

      R. James Long

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      The Catholic University of America Press

    • Published

      April 2015

    • Weight

      544g

    • Page Count

      296

    • Dimensions

      150 x 219 x 26 mm

    • ISBN

      9780813227375

    • ISBN-10

      0813227372

    • Eden Code

      4335049

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    • Author/Creator: R. James Long

    • ISBN: 9780813227375

    • Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press

    • Release Date: April 2015

    • Weight: 544g

    • Dimensions: 150 x 219 x 26 mm

    • Eden Code: 4335049


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