Reading Aristotle with Avicenna

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. A Guide to Citing the Summa Halensis IX
5. The Summa Halensis: Sources and Context 1
6. Part 1: The Sources of Early Franciscan Thought
7. Biblical Exegesis in the Summa Halensis 11
8. The Summa Halensis and Augustine 33
9. Evil in Dionysius the Areopagite, Alexander of Hales and Thomas Aquinas 55
10. The Reception of John of Damascus in the Summa Halensis 71
11. John of Damascus in the Summa Halensis 91
12. The Eriugenian Influence in the Summa Halensis: A Synthetic Tradition 117
13. Reading Aristotle with Avicenna 135
14. The De anima Tradition in Early Franciscan Thought 155
15. The Influence of Anselm of Canterbury on the Summa Halensis’ Theology of the Divine Substance 171
16. Anselm’s Influence on the Teaching of the Summa Halensis on Redemption 187
17. Hugh of St Victor’s Influence on the Summa Halensis 201
18. Part 2: The Historical and Intellectual Context
19. The Summa Halensis 219
20. Praepositinus of Cremona and William of Auxerre on Suppositio 235
21. Alexander’s Commentary on the Rule in Relation to the Summa Halensis 251
22. Odo Rigaldi, Alexander of Hales and the Summa Halensis 267
23. Slippers in Heaven 285
24. Creation, Light, and Redemption 299
25. Author Biographies 321
26. Index 325