Against the Backdrop of Sovereignty and Absolutism - The Theology of God's Power and Its Bearing on the Western Legal Tradition, 1100-1600

With a foreword by Diego Quaglioni.

This book analyses the bearing of one of the most long-standing debates of the Middle Ages, the distinction between potentia Dei absoluta and ordinata (God's absolute and ordered power), on the modern Western legal tradition.

Product details

• Authors: Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.05.2022
• EAN: 9789004503694
• ISBN: 978-90-04-50369-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 554 g
• Series: Scientific and Learned Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works