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The Mirror of Language (Revised Edition)

A Study of the Medieval Theory of Knowledge

By: Marcia L. Colish

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The Mirror of Language (Revised Edition)

A Study of the Medieval Theory of Knowledge

By: Marcia L. Colish

Early Christianity faced the problem of the human word versus Christ the Word. Could language accurately describe spiritual reality? The Mirror of Language brilliantly traces the development of one prominent theory of signs from Augustine through Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante. Their shared epistemology validated human language as an authentic but limited index of preexistent reality, both material and spiritual. This sign theory could thereby account for the ways men receive, know, and transmit religious knowledge, always mediated through faith. Marcia L. Colish demonstrates how the three theologians used different branches of the medieval trivium to express a common sign theory: Augustine stressed rhetoric, Anselm shifted to grammar (including grammatical proofs of God's existence), and Thomas Aquinas stressed dialectic. Dante, the one poet included in this study, used the Augustinian sign theory to develop a Christian poetics that culminates in the Divine Comedy. The author points out not only the commonality but also the sharp contrasts between these writers and shows the relation between their sign theories and the intellectual ferment of the times. When first published in 1968, The Mirror of Language was recognized as a pathfinding study. This completely revised edition incorporates the scholarship of the intervening years and reflects the refinements of the author's thought. Greater prominence is given to the role of Stoicism, and sharper attention is paid to some of the thinkers and movements surrounding the major thinkers treated. Concerns of semiotics, philosophy, and literary criticism are elucidated further. The original thesis, still controversial, is now even wider ranging and more salient to current intellectual debate.

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Love Become Incarnate: Essays in Honor of Bruce D. Marshall

By: Marcia Colish,Matthew Levering,Augustine Di Noia,Paul Griffiths,Reinhard Hütter

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Love Become Incarnate: Essays in Honor of Bruce D. Marshall

By: Marcia Colish,Matthew Levering,Augustine Di Noia,Paul Griffiths,Reinhard Hütter

Love Become Incarnate is a Festschrift in honor of Bruce D. Marshall, Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology. Marshall is one of the most significant Catholic theologians in the English-speaking world. His work exemplifies an intentionally Catholic theology that makes fearless use of the fullness of truth—wherever it may be found—in conscious service to the Church. Marshall has made significant contributions to the doctrine of the Trinity, Christology, Pneumatology, ecclesiology, ecumenism, Jewish-Christian dialogue, and fundamental theology. St. Thomas Aquinas has been his most constant theological companion, although he has also advanced our understanding of Saints Augustine and Anselm, John Duns Scotus, Martin Luther, Matthias Joseph Scheeben, Karl Barth, and other major figures. Marshall has carefully developed a unique, powerful, and wide-ranging theology of the primacy of Christ over all things. It is this same Christ who is the love of God become incarnate. This series of essays by Marcia Colish, J. Augustine Di Noia, Paul Griffiths, Reinhard Hütter, Matthew Levering, and others engage and advance Marshall’s ranging contributions to historical and systematic theology.

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Emmaus Academic

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1645852709

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Peter Lombard. 1

By: Marcia L. Colish

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Peter Lombard. 1

By: Marcia L. Colish

The first general study of Peter Lombard (c. 1100-1160) in a century, this book places Peter's thought in the context of the intellectual debates of his time in the effort to understand the substance of Lombardian theology and the reasons why his principal work, the Sentences , immediately became a classic of early scholastic theology with a durable influence, doing more to shape the education of university theologians and philosophers than any other work of systematic theology for the next four centuries. Attention is paid to the sentence collection as a genre of theological literature, the problem of theological language with which Peter and his contemporaries wrestled, and his contribution to early scholastic biblical exegesis as well as to the development of his systematic theology in the Sentences .

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BRILL

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9004098593

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Faith, Force and Fiction in Medieval Baptismal Debates

By: Marcia L. Colish

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Faith, Force and Fiction in Medieval Baptismal Debates

By: Marcia L. Colish

Drawing on a wide and interdisciplinary range of sources that goes well beyond the writings of theologians and canonists to include liturgical texts and practices, the rulings of popes and church councils, saints' lives, chronicles, imaginative literature, and poetry, Faith, Fiction and Force in Medieval Baptismal Debates illuminates the emergence and fortunes of these three controversies and the historical contexts that situate their development. Each debate has its own story line, its own turning points, and its own seminal figures whose positions informed its course. The thinkers involved in each case were, and regarded one another as being, members of the orthodox western Christian communion. Thus, another finding of this book is that Christian orthodoxy in the Middle Ages was able to encompass and accept disagreements both wide and deep on a sacrament seen as fundamental to Christian identity, faith and practice.

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CUA Press

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0813226112

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Studies in Scholasticism

By: Marcia L. Colish

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Studies in Scholasticism

By: Marcia L. Colish

Spanning thirty years, the papers brought together in this volume reflect three of Professor Colish's interests as a historian of medieval scholastic thought. The first group of studies represent investigations that flowed into, and out of, the research on Peter Lombard (d. 1161) and his contemporaries that culminated in her book Peter Lombard (1994). Following the publication of that work, she next sought to discover how Peter's theology became mainstream Paris theology in the period between Lombard's death and the early 13th century, resulting in the second group of papers in this collection. Finally, the last two papers offer reflections on broader interpretive issues, considering ways in which medievalists ought to reconsider their general understanding of the story lines of high medieval intellectual history.

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Taylor & Francis

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The Fathers and Beyond

Church Fathers between Ancient and Medieval Thought

By: Marcia L. Colish

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The Fathers and Beyond

Church Fathers between Ancient and Medieval Thought

By: Marcia L. Colish

The papers in this second selection of articles by Professor Colish focus on thinkers of the patristic age, and relate to her three monographic studies in this area published over the last two decades. At the same time these papers look beyond the patristic period, both backward to these authors' appropriation of the classical and Christian traditions, and forward to their function as authorities in later medieval intellectual history, from the Carolingian Renaissance to Anselm of Canterbury, the scholastics, and Dante. Themes which these papers address include the transmission and use of Platonism and Stoicism, logic and linguistic theory, and the ethics of lying, moral indifference, and the salvation of the virtuous pagan.

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Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400

By: Marcia L. Colish

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Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400

By: Marcia L. Colish

This magisterial book is an analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between A.D. 400 and 1400. The book is arranged in two parts: the first surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin-Christian, and Muslim cultures, and the second takes the reader from the eleventh-century revival of learning to the high Middle Ages and beyond, the period in which the vibrancy of Western intellectual culture enabled it to stamp its imprint well beyond the frontiers of Christendom. Marcia Colish argues that the foundations of the Western intellectual tradition were laid in the Middle Ages and not, as is commonly held, in the Judeo-Christian or classical periods. She contends that Western medieval thinkers produced a set of tolerances, tastes, concerns, and sensibilities that made the Middle Ages unlike other chapters of the Western intellectual experience. She provides astute descriptions of the vernacular and oral culture of each country of Europe; explores the nature of medieval culture and its transmission; profiles seminal thinkers (Augustine, Anselm, Gregory the Great, Aquinas, Ockham); studies heresy from Manichaeism to Huss and Wycliffe; and investigates the influence of Arab and Jewish writing on scholasticism and the resurrection of Greek studies. Colish concludes with an assessment of the modes of medieval thought that ended with the period and those that remained as bases for later ages of European intellectual history.

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Studies in Scholasticism

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Faith, Force and Fiction in Medieval Baptismal Debates

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The Mirror of Language (Revised Edition)

A Study of the Medieval Theory of Knowledge

By: Marcia L. Colish

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Marcia Batiste Book III

Dedicated to God

By: Marcia Batiste,Marcia Batiste Smith Wilson, Dr, PhD

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By: Marcia Batiste,Marcia Batiste Smith Wilson, Dr, PhD

Marcia attunes with the flow of God.

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Marcia Batiste Book II

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By: Marcia Batiste,Marcia Batiste Smith Wilson, Dr, PhD

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Marcia Batiste lives the attunement to God, with God, in God.

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Marcia Batiste

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By: Marcia B. Wilson,Marcia Batiste Smith Wilson, Dr, PhD

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By: Marcia B. Wilson,Marcia Batiste Smith Wilson, Dr, PhD

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Marcia Batiste Book IV

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By: Marcia B. Wilson,Marcia Batiste Smith Wilson, Dr, PhD

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By: Marcia B. Wilson,Marcia Batiste Smith Wilson, Dr, PhD

The ritual at Karnak inwardly is for God service and living a wonderful and fulfilling life spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically and in motive.

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Book's by Marcia L. Colish

The Mirror of Language (Revised Edition)

The Mirror of Language (Revised Edition)

Love Become Incarnate: Essays in Honor of Bruce D. Marshall

Love Become Incarnate: Essays in Honor of Bruce D. Marshall

Peter Lombard. 1

Peter Lombard. 1

Faith, Force and Fiction in Medieval Baptismal Debates

Faith, Force and Fiction in Medieval Baptismal Debates

Studies in Scholasticism

Studies in Scholasticism

The Fathers and Beyond

The Fathers and Beyond

Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400

Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400

Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400

Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400

Studies in Scholasticism

Studies in Scholasticism

Faith, Force and Fiction in Medieval Baptismal Debates

Faith, Force and Fiction in Medieval Baptismal Debates

The Mirror of Language (Revised Edition)

The Mirror of Language (Revised Edition)

Marcia Batiste Book III

Marcia Batiste Book III

Marcia Batiste Book II

Marcia Batiste Book II

Marcia Batiste

Marcia Batiste

Marcia Batiste Book IV

Marcia Batiste Book IV

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