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).

• EditorialPreface and AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsCurriculum vitae Kent Emery, Jr.Publications by Kent Emery, Jr.IntroductionPart 1 Conceptual Approaches1 Les notions de puissance et d’ harmonie chez PorphyreStephen Gersh2 La philosophie comme considération, la contemplation et ses moyens selon Bernard de ClairvauxChristian Trottmann3 Contemplation and Philosophy: A Historical and Systematic ApproachAndreas Speer4 The Two “Late Middle Ages”William J. Courtenay5 Die scotische Unterscheidung von Essenz und Energie bei Georgios Scholarios und die inneren Quellen der palamitischen TraditionGeorgi KaprievPart 2 Struggling with Philosophy6 What a Philosopher May Learn from Theologians. Albert the Great on the Principles of Movement in Humans (De anima III, 9–11)Carlos Steel7 Dreams and Divinatory Dreams in Albert the Great’s Liber de somno et vigiliaSilvia Donati8 Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon and the Magicians on the Power of WordsSteven P. Marrone9 Can It be Proved, Following Thomas’s Philosophical Principles, That the Human Soul is Naturally Incorruptible?Bernardo Carlos Bazán10 Henry of Ghent on Knowledge, Remembrance, and the Order of Cognitive Acts: The Problematic Legacy of Thomas AquinasBernd GoehringPart 3 Understanding Theology11 The Parts of Henry of Ghent’s Quaestiones Ordinariae (Summa)Gordon A. Wilson12 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 SentencesMikołaj OlszewskiIacobus Metensis, Quaestiones in I Librum Sententiarum Distinctio 213 James of Metz’s Lectura on the SentencesChris SchabelTabula Quaestionum14 Peter Aureoli’s Various Uses of Averroes to Illustrate the Sapiential Character of Declarative TheologyStephen BrownPart 4 The First Known15 Primum cognitum at the End of the 13th Century: Raymundus Rigaldus and Duns ScotusTimothy B. NooneRaymundus 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 IdeasGarrett R. Smith⟨Iacobi de Aesculo⟩ ⟨Quaestio ordinaria 4⟩ | Quaeritur utrum notitia actualis creaturae praesupponatur in Deo notitiae habituali eiusdemPart 5 Meister Eckhart’s Legacy17 More Than One Eckhart? The Parisian Eckhart and the ‘Opus tripartitum’—The Need for a More Homogeneous Picture of His ThoughtJan A. Aertsen (†)18 Eckhart and the Power of the ImaginationAlessandro Palazzo19 Locutio emphatica: Argumentative Strategies in Meister Eckhart’s German SermonsLoris SturlesePart 6 Mystical Theology and Contemplation20 The Tractatus de mistica theologia by Ioannes de Indagine, O.Cart († 1475)Stephen M. MetzgerIoannis de Indagine Tractatus de mistica theologia21 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 HobbinsAppendix A: Contents of Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek, Hs. 763Appendix B: Annotatio quorundam doctorum qui de contemplatione locuti sunt. Venerabilis magistri Johannis GersonPart 7 Prospects of the Second Scholastic22 Alfonso Briceño O.F.M. (1587–1668) on John Duns Scotus’s Metaphysical Groundworks of Theology: The Controversies on InfinityRoberto Hofmeister Pich23 Antonio Ruiz de Montoya’s Firestone of Divine Love (Sílex del divino amor): The Spiritual Journey of a Jesuit among the GuaraníAlfredo Santiago Culleton24 Hyacinthe de Chalvet on Beauty—Keeping Up Anti-Scholastic AppearancesGuy GuldentopsIndex codicumIndex nominum