Medieval Theories of Divine Providence 1250-1350

Mikko Posti, Ph.D. (2018), University of Helsinki, is a postdoctoral researcher in the faculty of theology at the University of Helsinki. Posti’s previous publications have focused on the doctrines of Trinity and divine providence in medieval scholastic thought.

Acknowledgements



Introduction



1 Historical Background

 1 Introduction

 2 Plato and Aristotle on Providence

 3 Aristotle on Causality and Chance

 4 The Epicureans and the Stoic Theory of Fate and Providence

 5 The Middle Platonists, Conditional Fate

 6 The Peripatetic Tradition and “Aristotle’s Theory of Providence”

 7 The Neoplatonists: All-Embracing Divine Providence

 8 Augustine and the Christian Formulation of Divine Providence

 9 Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy

 10 Boethius on Causality

 11 John of Damascus



2 Divine Providence from Alexander of Hales to Thomas Aquinas

 1 Accidental Causality, Free Choice and Evil

 2 Avicenna and Averroes on Providence and Causality

 3 Alexander of Hales and the Summa Halensis

 4 Albert the Great

 5 Thomas Aquinas

 6 Siger of Brabant



3 Divine Providence from 1277 to Thomas Bradwardine

 1 Introduction

 2 The 1277 Condemnations

 3 Giles of Rome

 4 Matthew of Aquasparta

 5 Richard of Middleton, John of Paris & Durand of St. Pourçain

 6 Peter Auriol

 7 Robert Holkot

 8 Thomas Bradwardine



4 Liber de Bona Fortuna: New Perspectives on Providence

 1 Introduction

 2 Liber de bona fortuna: Aristotle’s Later Theory of Good Fortune?

 3 Thomas Aquinas on LDBF

 4 Giles of Rome

 5 Henry of Ghent

 6 Richard of Middleton

 7 John Duns Scotus

 8 The Anonymous Commentator of LDBF

 9 Peter Auriol on LDBF



Conclusion



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