Contemplation and Philosophy: Scholastic and Mystical Modes of Medieval Philosophical Thought

Roberto Hofmeister Pich is Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre / RS, Brazil. He has written and edited books about the philosophy of John Duns Scotus and the reception of the Scotist and other medieval "schools" in Baroque and Modern Scholasticism. Andreas Speer is Professor in Philosophy and Director of the Thomas-Institut at the University of Cologne. He has written and edited many books and articles concerning the history of medieval philosophy and theology. He is General Editor of the Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters (Brill).

Editorial
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Curriculum vitae Kent Emery, Jr.
Publications by Kent Emery, Jr.


Introduction


Part 1 Conceptual Approaches


1 Les notions de puissance et d’ harmonie chez Porphyre
 Stephen Gersh


2 La philosophie comme considération, la contemplation et ses moyens selon Bernard de Clairvaux
 Christian Trottmann


3 Contemplation and Philosophy: A Historical and Systematic Approach
 Andreas Speer


4 The Two “Late Middle Ages”
 William J. Courtenay


5 Die scotische Unterscheidung von Essenz und Energie bei Georgios Scholarios und die inneren Quellen der palamitischen Tradition
 Georgi Kapriev


Part 2 Struggling with Philosophy


6 What a Philosopher May Learn from Theologians. Albert the Great on the Principles of Movement in Humans (De anima III, 9–11)
 Carlos Steel


7 Dreams and Divinatory Dreams in Albert the Great’s Liber de somno et vigilia
 Silvia Donati


8 Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon and the Magicians on the Power of Words
 Steven P. Marrone


9 Can It be Proved, Following Thomas’s Philosophical Principles, That the Human Soul is Naturally Incorruptible?
 Bernardo Carlos Bazán


10 Henry of Ghent on Knowledge, Remembrance, and the Order of Cognitive Acts: The Problematic Legacy of Thomas Aquinas
 Bernd Goehring


Part 3 Understanding Theology


11 The Parts of Henry of Ghent’s Quaestiones Ordinariae (Summa)
 Gordon A. Wilson


12 A Thomist Facing the Challenge of Henry of Ghent. An Edition and Study of Distinction 2 from James of Metz’s Commentary on Book I of the Sentences
 Mikołaj Olszewski
 Iacobus Metensis, Quaestiones in I Librum Sententiarum Distinctio 2


13 James of Metz’s Lectura on the Sentences
 Chris Schabel
 Tabula Quaestionum


14 Peter Aureoli’s Various Uses of Averroes to Illustrate the Sapiential Character of Declarative Theology
 Stephen Brown


Part 4 The First Known


15 Primum cognitum at the End of the 13th Century: Raymundus Rigaldus and Duns Scotus
 Timothy B. Noone
 Raymundus Rigaldus, Quaestiones disputatae, qq. 1–3 (Ex codice Todi, Bibl. commun., Ms. 98, f. 51rb et seq. = T)


16 Esse consecutive cognitum: A Fourteenth-Century Theory of Divine Ideas
 Garrett R. Smith
 ⟨Iacobi de Aesculo⟩ ⟨Quaestio ordinaria 4⟩ | Quaeritur utrum notitia actualis creaturae praesupponatur in Deo notitiae habituali eiusdem


Part 5 Meister Eckhart’s Legacy


17 More Than One Eckhart? The Parisian Eckhart and the ‘Opus tripartitum’—The Need for a More Homogeneous Picture of His Thought
 Jan A. Aertsen (†)


18 Eckhart and the Power of the Imagination
 Alessandro Palazzo


19 Locutio emphatica: Argumentative Strategies in Meister Eckhart’s German Sermons
 Loris Sturlese


Part 6 Mystical Theology and Contemplation


20 The Tractatus de mistica theologia by Ioannes de Indagine, O.Cart († 1475)
 Stephen M. Metzger
 Ioannis de Indagine Tractatus de mistica theologia


21 A Newly Discovered Recension of Gerson’s Annotatio doctorum aliquorum qui de contemplatione locuti sunt: Evidence for Gerson’s Reading of De imitatione Christi?
 Daniel Hobbins
 Appendix A: Contents of Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek, Hs. 763
 Appendix B: Annotatio quorundam doctorum qui de contemplatione locuti sunt. Venerabilis magistri Johannis Gerson


Part 7 Prospects of the Second Scholastic


22 Alfonso Briceño O.F.M. (1587–1668) on John Duns Scotus’s Metaphysical Groundworks of Theology: The Controversies on Infinity
 Roberto Hofmeister Pich


23 Antonio Ruiz de Montoya’s Firestone of Divine Love (Sílex del divino amor): The Spiritual Journey of a Jesuit among the Guaraní
 Alfredo Santiago Culleton


24 Hyacinthe de Chalvet on Beauty—Keeping Up Anti-Scholastic Appearances
 Guy Guldentops


Index codicum
Index nominum