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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89754-9 - An Introduction to Medieval Theology Rik Van Nieuwenhove Index More information Index Abelard, Peter, 82, 84, 99–111, 116, 120 beatific vision, 41, 62, 191 Alain of Lille, 71 beatitude, 172, 195–96 Albert the Great, 171, 264 Beatrijs van Nazareth, 170 Alexander of Hales, 147, 211, 227 beguine movement, 170 allegory, 15, 43, 45, 47, 177 Benedict XII, Pope, 265 Amaury of Bène, 71 Benedict, St., 28–29, 42 Ambrose, 7, 10, 149 Berengar of Tours, 60, 83, 129, 160, see also amor ipse notitia est 51, 117, see love and knowledge Eucharist anagogy, 47 Bernard of Clairvaux, 79, 82, 100, 104, 110, 112–15, analogy, see univocity 147, 251 analogy in Aquinas, 182–85, 234, 235 critique of Abelard, 110–11 Anselm of Canterbury, 16, 30, 71, 78, 81, 83–98, on loving God, 112–14 204, 236 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 251 Anselm of Laon, 72, 99 Boethius, 29–33, 125, 137 Anthony, St., 27 Bonaventure, 34, 47, 123, 141, 146, 148, 170, 173, apophaticism, 8, 34, 271 176, 179, 211–24, 227, 228, 230, 232, 242, 243, Aquinas, 182–83 245, 254 Aquinas, 22, 24, 34, 47, 51, 72, 87, 89, 90, 133, 146, Boniface, Pope, 249 148, 151, 154, 164, 169, 171–210, 214, 225, 227, 230, 235, 236, 237, 238, 240, 241, 244, 246, Calvin, 14 254, 255, 257, 266 Carabine, Deirdre, 65 Arianism, 20, 21 Carthusians, 79 Aristotle, 9, 20, 29, 78, 84, 179, 181, 192, 195, 212, Cassian, John, 27–29, 47 213, 216, 223, 225, 226, 227, 229, 237, 254, Cassidorius, 124 267, 268 cathedral schools, 82, 169 Arts, 124, 222 Catherine of Siena, 251 and pedagogy (Hugh), 124–28 causality, 256 Carolingian, 57 charity, see love quadrivium, 29, 124, 126 Charlemagne, 29, 56, 57 trivium, 124 Charles the Bald, 56, 57 Augustine, 7–26, 30, 48, 49, 53, 83, 116, 129, 145, Chaucer, Geoffrey, 251 151, 173, 174, 186, 208, 213, 221, 280 Chenu, M.D., 103 and Neoplatonism, 8 Chrétien de Troyes, 251 Augustine of Canterbury, 40 Christ, see also soteriology Augustinian canons, 80, 120, 276 and Church, 18 Averroes, 78, 223, 225 and sacraments, 158, 159 Averroism, 172, 211, 225 Body of, see Church Ayres, Lewis, 217 presence in Eucharist, 59, 161 baptism, 12, 129, 157, 158–59, 160, 162, 163, 260 priesthood, 208–09 Barth, Karl, 2, 181, 184, 227 resurrection, 68, 70 291 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89754-9 - An Introduction to Medieval Theology Rik Van Nieuwenhove Index More information 292 Index Christ (cont.) Devotio Moderna, 282–83 still suffers, 18 divine command ethics, 259 two natures, 20 divinity, see Trinity Christological nihilianism, 156 and happiness, 31 Church, 15, 18, 44, 115, 165, 207 and indistinction (Eckhart), 271–72 Body of Christ, 44, 115, 161, 206–07 and intellect (Eckhart), 266–69 reform, 79 essence and existence coincide, 180 Cicero, 7 eternity, 32 Cistercians, 79 foreknowledge, 31 Clement VII, Pope, 249 goodness, 31 Cluny, 79 humility of, 16, 45 Colish, Marcia, 111 knowledge of future, 32 Columba, 27 mercy and justice, 95–96, 205 Columbanus, 27 power, 258–59 Conciliarism, 250 proof of existence (Anselm), 87–90 Condemnations of 1277, 3, 225–28, 261 proof of existence (Aquinas), 179–82 condilectus, 142, 144, 215 proof of existence (Duns Scotus), 235–37 confirmation, 159 proof of existence (Ockham), 256–57 conpunctio, 52 proof of existence (Richard), 140–41 contemplation simplicity, 20, 22, 91, 152, 183, 185, 235, 237, 242 and action, 202–03 transcendence, 34, 49, 65, 90 and action (Gregory the Great), 52–54 docta ignorantia, 51 and action (Ruusbroec), 280–81 Dominicans, 169, 171, 265 Aquinas, 200–03 doubt of the Trinity, 123 universal, 10, 11 Richard of St. Victor, 137–40 Duccio, 250 contingency, 33, 140, 236 Dudden, F.H., 41 Council of Chalcedon, 20 Dulles, Avery, 193 Council of Sens, 100, 110 Duns Scotus, 148, 170, 200, 226, 229–46, 254 Council of Soissons, 84 Durandus of St. Pourçain, 261 Council of Toledo, 60 creation, 156 Eckhart, Meister, 34, 71, 73, 264–75 and God in Eriugena, 64–66 El Cid, 78 and humanity as microcosm, 67, 68 election, 12 and sexual differentiation, 67 Emery, Gilles, 190 and Trinity, 9, 212 empiricism, 256, 261 as sacramental, 66, 223, 257 enjoyment of God, see frui as sacramental (Hugh), 121–24 epektasis, 50 beauty, 121–22 Erasmus, 33 Cross, Richard, 243 Eriugena Scotus, 33, 56–73 crusades, 78, 112 eschatology, 40, 41, 42, 47, 48, 67, 101, 129, 209 Cullen, Christopher, 213 Eucharist, 18, 48, 58, 59, 83, 129, 130, 131, 157, 158, curiosity, 128 161, 203, 209–10, 287 Berengar’s controversy, 83 Dante, 115, 251 consubstantiation, 162 Davies, Brian, 89, 179 controversy in the 9th century, 58–59 Decalogue, 239 Hugh of St. Victor, 130–31 Decorte, Jos, 88 Peter Lombard, 160–62 deification, 114 symbolism, 162 deism, 180 transubstantiation, 130, 161, 260 Descartes, 10, 11, 89, 90 Eugene III, Pope, 112 desire, 25, 51, 87, 90, 113, 196–99 evil, 31, 70, 97 in Gregory the Great, 49–50 absence of goodness, 9, 61 detachment, 270, 272–74, 280 exchange, 16, 48 devil, 41, 48, 94, 104 exemplarism, 8, 9, 86, 212, 213, 219, 257 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89754-9 - An Introduction to Medieval Theology Rik Van Nieuwenhove Index More information Index 293 exitus, 64, 66, 73 Gothic, 81, 169, 250 exsistentia, 142, 143 Gottschalk, 61 grace, 28, 192, 214, see also free will faith and free will, 28 and reason, 3, 10, 226, 235, 261 in Augustine, 11–14 and reason in Abelard, 105 Great Schism (1054), 61 and reason in Anselm, 85–86 Gregory of Nyssa, 56, 65 and reason in Augustine, 10–11 Gregory of Rimini, 262 and reason in Bonaventure, 216 Gregory the Great, 42–47, 102, 177, 203, 280 and reason in Eriugena, 62–63 Gregory VII, Pope, 81, 82 and reason in Richard of St. Victor, 140–41 Gregory X, Pope, 172 and reason in William of St. Thierry, 118 Gregory XI, Pope, 249 Aquinas, 191–93 as theological virtue, 23, 192 Hadewijch, 170 definition (Abelard), 110 haecceity, 237, 238, 255 definition (Aquinas), 191 Harrison, Peter, 226 definition (Hugh), 132 Healy, Nicholas, 174 Hugh of St. Victor, 131–33 hell, 71, 102 models of, 193 Heloise, 99, 101, 119 preambles, 177 Henry of Ghent, 230, 232 fides quaerens intellectum, 85, 175 heresy, 265 Filioque, 21, 24, 58, 85, 144, 243 Herp, Hendrik, 281 Duns Scotus, 243–44 Hincmar, Bishop, 61 Eriugena , 60 Holy Spirit, 18, 21, 23, 43, 96, 107, 118, 123, 144, Five Ways, 179, 180, 235, see divinity, proofs of 145, 150, 153, 154, 155, 188, 189, 190, 193, 212, existence 218, 219, 220, 242, 243, 244 Flemish Primitives, 251, 282 Abelard, 107 Florens Radewijns, 282 as love (Peter Lombard), 153–54 forgiveness, 17, 205 gifts, 45 formal distinction, 237, 242 hope, 193 forms, see exemplarism Hugh of St. Victor, 71, 80, 120–36, 137, 158, 160 forms, Platonic, 9, 66 Hurst, David, 52 Franciscans, 170, 253 Hyma, Albert, 282 free will and divine foreknowledge, 31 idolatry, 25 in Anselm, 92–93 illumination, 213 freedom of choice, 13, 92 Image, 68, 155, 190, 219, 221, 268, see Word Friedman, Russell, 241 Immaculate Conception, 245 frui, 223, 274, 280 Incarnation, 8, 23, 48, 53 Aquinas, 197–98 and our salvation (Bernard), 114 Augustine, 24–25 Duns Scotus, 244–45 Peter Lombard, 148–50 hypostatic union (Lombard), 156–57 Ruusbroec, 280–81 “necessity” in Anselm, 94 individuation, 237 Gabriel Biel, 262 Ingham, Mary, 238 Geert Grote, 252, 282 Innocent II, Pope, 110 geometry, 8, 124, 126, 231 instrumentalization, 2, 25, 122, 202 Gerard Zerbolt van Zutphen, 282 intellect Gift, 144, 145, 155, 190, 219, 220, 221, see Holy and God (Eckhart), 266–68 Spirit and will, 200 Giles of Rome, 249 distinct from reason, 2, 11, 32 Giotto di Bondone, 250 distinct from reason (Aquinas), 201 Glossa Ordinaria, 72 distinct from reason (Eriugena), 63 God, see divinity investiture contest, 81 Godfrey of Fontaines, 230 Isidore of Seville, 157 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89754-9 - An Introduction to Medieval Theology Rik Van Nieuwenhove Index More information 294 Index James of Viterbo, 249 Mechthild von Magdeburg, 170 Jerome, St, 27 Memling, Hugo, 282 John Buridan, 262 merit, 13, 205 John of Paris, 249 Merriell, Juvenal, 187 John of the Cross, 34 modernity, 1, 196, 262 John XII, Pope, 78 and Ockham, 261–63 John XXII, Pope, 173, 253, 265 modus significandi, 184 Julian of Norwich, 251 monopsychism, 225 Moorhead, John, 46 Kant, Immanuel, 89, 148, 227, 241, 262 Kierkegaard, S., 199 Natura (Eriugena), 64 Kilwardby, Robert, 227 natural law, 101, 239, 259 King, Peter, 236 Neoplatonism, 8, 9, 29, 67, 68, 257 knowledge of individuals Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, 60 in Aquinas and Ockham, 256 Nicholas of Autrecourt, 262 Kretzmann, Norman, 181 Nicholas of Lyra, 47 Nicolas of Cusa, 71 LaNave, Gregory, 215 nominalism, 3, 84, 226, 227, 262 Lanfranc of Bec, 83, 130 Ockham, 254–55 last judgement, 70 Norbertines, 81 Lateran Council (1215), 157 Leclerq, Jean, 49 Ockham, see William of Ockham liberum arbitrium, 13 Ockham’s razor, 253 limbo, 14 ontological proof, 93–97 logic, 29, 99 ordination, 164 Lombard, Peter, 22, 102, 120, 147–66 Origen, 72 Louis of Bavaria, 253 Otto the Great, 77, 78 love, see Holy Spirit as love, see also desire agapeic and erotic, 135 Pachomius, 27 and knowledge, 50 papacy, 77, 81, 249, 253 and Trinity, 22, 140–41, 219–21 paradise, 69, 70 Aquinas, 194–95 Paschasius Radbertus, 58, 59 as friendship, 194–95 Peckham, John, 227 as theological virtue, 23, 192, 194 pedagogy gratuitous, 13, 113–14, 144 and theology, 124–27 Hugh of St.
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