The Metaphysics of the Incarnation
Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus
1st Edition
Published on 14. February 2002
314 pages
978-0-19-155403-2 (ISBN)
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The period from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus is one of the richest in the history of Christian theology. The Metaphysics of the Incarnation aims to provide a thorough examination of the doctrine in this era, making explicit its philosophical and theological foundations. Medieval theologians believed that there were good reasons for supposing that Christ's human nature was an individual. In the light of this, Part 1 discusses how the various thinkers held that an individual nature could be united to a divine person. Part 2 shows how one divine person could be incarnate without any other. Part 3 deals with questions of Christological predication, and Part 4 shows how an individual nature is to be distinguished from a person. The work begins with a full account of the metaphysics presupposed in the medieval accounts, and concludes with observations relating medieval accounts to modern Christology.
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Richard Cross is Tutorial Fellow in Theology, Oriel College, and University Lecturer in Theology, University of Oxford
Content
- Introduction. The philosophical problem: substance and nature
- Part I. Models for the hypostatic union
- 2: The concrete whole-concrete part model: pro et contra
- 3: The substance-accident model: (1) Franciscans from Bonaventure to William of Ware
- 4: The substance-accident model: (2) Giles of Rome and his opponents
- 5: The substance-accident model: (3) Duns Scotus
- Excursus 1
- Part II. Trinitarian Issues
- 7: The ratio terminandi: essence or personal property?
- Part III. The communication of properties
- 9: Relations and intrinsic properties
- 10: Christ's human activity: agency and predication
- Excursus 2
- Part IV. Theories of subsistence
- 12: Esse theories of subsistence
- 13: Relation theories of subsistence
- 14: Negation theories of subsistence: (1) The thirteenth century
- 15: Negation theories of subsistence: (2) Duns Scotus
- Conclusion
