Stephen Langton and Geoffrey of Poitiers on the Natural Power to Believe
Journal Title: Przegląd Tomistyczny - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue
Abstract
The article discusses the problem of the natural potentiality involved in faith. Stephen Langton and his disciple, Geoffrey of Poitiers, defend the view that the human being has a natural ability to believe, and by believing they intend acts and movements of a meritorious virtue. However, the two thinkers offer different interpretations of this natural ability. This difference makes it possible to ascribe a small group of anonymous questions to Geoffrey rather than to his English master. The article concludes with a critical edition of two theological questions by Geoffrey of Poitiers and Stephen Langton.
Authors and Affiliations
Magdalena Bieniak
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP255645
- DOI -
- Views 68
- Downloads 0
Niematerialny charakter poznania anielskiego w ujęciu św. Tomasza z Akwinu
This article concerns two main topics of Saint Thomas’ conception of angelic cognition: the problem of angelic intellectual power and angelic knowledge of individual material substances. These problems are concerned with...
Debating the Authority of Pseudo-Augustine’s „De spiritu et animaˮ
This paper introduces the De spiritu et anima, widely copied in the medieval period as a work of Augustine, but whose authority and authorship was much contested in the 13th century, in particular by Albert the Great and...
Une Reportatio de l'Enseignement de Buridan sur la Metaphysique des Accidents
The manuscript BnF Lat. 16131 contains one of the few direct testimonies of Buridan’s teaching, a reportatio of his Questions on Metaphysics. Establishing an edition of the two questions on univocity/equivocity of ens, I...
Faith and Reason in Stephen Langton (+ 1228) and Some of His Contemporaries
This article discusses an early scholastic question whether knowing something is compatible with believing it. The main authors taken into consideration are Stephen Langton, Praepositinus of Cremona, Geoffrey of Poitiers...
Rachunek proporcji (calculationes) — nowa metoda nauk przyrodniczych na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim w pierwszej połowie XIV wieku
The Oxford Calculators’ School, active in the first half of the fourteenth century, is famous among historians of science for its introduction of mathematical tools of analysis into Aristotelian natural philosophy. A tool...