The Possible and the Impossible: Potentia absoluta and potentia ordinata Under Close Scrutiny

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. A Guide to Citing the Summa Halensis XI
5. Abbreviations XIII
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Philosophy and Theology
8. The Creation of Matter in the Summa Halensis 15
9. The Soul-Body Union in the Summa Halensis 37
10. The Summa Halensis on Theology and the Sciences: The Influence of Aristotle and Avicenna 49
11. On Divine Immensity and Infinity in Relation to Space and Time: The Crossroad of the Summa Halensis 71
12. Providence in the Summa Halensis: Between Authority and Innovation 89
13. Suspended Beauty? The Mystery of Aesthetic Experience in the Summa Halensis 111
14. Free Will in the Summa Halensis 129
15. Odo Rigaldus at the University of Paris (c.1220–48) 151
16. The Talmud in the Summa Halensis 169
17. Part II: The Legacy of the Summa Halensis
18. It’s Not Just about Anselm: Aquinas’ ST Ia, q. 2, ar. 1 and Early Franciscan Illumination Theory 185
19. The Possible and the Impossible: Potentia absoluta and potentia ordinata Under Close Scrutiny 207
20. The Metaphysics of the Incarnation in the Summa Halensis and its Place in the Later History of Christology 221
21. The Passions of the Will and the Passion of Christ in Franciscan Theology from the Summa Halensis to Duns Scotus 239
22. Franciscan Identity, Poverty and the Rational Will: From Summa Halensis to John Duns Scotus 257
23. What is Later Franciscan Theology? Ockham and the Early Franciscans 281
24. Intellectus agens triplex distinguitur: Early Franciscans and Avicenna in Petrus Hispanus’ Theory of the Agent Intellect in the Scientia libri de anima 297
25. Alexander of Hales in the Book of Conformities of Bartholomew of Pisa 323
26. Gabriel Biel and the Summa Halensis 339
27. The Reception of the Summa Halensis in the Manuscript Tradition until 1450 353
28. Science, Philosophy and the Authority of the Early Franciscan Summa Halensis: Learning from the Past for the Sake of the Future 373
29. Contributor Biographies 399
30. Index 405