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Zusatztext There are few books that are as careful in its detail and as cosmic in its scope as Adams's Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist: Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the nature of Christ's presence among us. Informationen zum Autor Marilyn McCord Adams taught medieval philosophy and philosophy of religion at UCLA for twenty-one years. During this period, she was also ordained an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Los Angeles. She then moved to Yale to become Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology and subsequently to Oxford to take up her post as Regius Professor of Divinity and Canon at Christ Church. She is now Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has published widely on medieval thinkers and on philosophical theology. Her books include William Ockham (2 vols), Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God, and Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology. Klappentext How can the Body and Blood of Christ, without ever leaving heaven, come to be really present on eucharistic altars where the bread and wine still seem to be? Marilyn McCord Adams examines how this question and its answer ("transubstantiation") engaged thirteenth and fourteenth century philosophical theologians. Zusammenfassung How can the Body and Blood of Christ, without ever leaving heaven, come to be really present on eucharistic altars where the bread and wine still seem to be? Marilyn McCord Adams examines how this question and its answer ("transubstantiation") engaged thirteenth and fourteenth century philosophical theologians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Introduction 1: Aristotelian Preliminaries I: Why Sacraments? 2: What, Why, and Wherefore 3: Sacramental Causality: 'Effecting What They Figure!' II: The Metaphysics and Physics of Real Presence 4: Explaining the Presence, Identifying the Change: Aquinas and Giles of Rome 5: Duns Scotus on Placement Problems 6: Duns Scotus on Two Types of Transsubstantiation 7: Remodelling with Ockham 8: Accidents without Substance: Aquinas and Gilles of Rome 9: Independent Accidents: Scotus and Ockham 10: Theology Provoking Philosophy III: What Sort of Union? 11: Eucharistic Eating and Drinking 12: Sacraments, Why Ceasing? Post-Script List of Numbered Propositions Bibliography ...
