The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period
The Medieval Theologians provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the period through an examination of the key individual theologians of the time. Chronologically arranged, it allows students to explore this crucial period when so many important theological developments took place.

  • Covers the important period from the 5th to the 16th centuries, when theology took shape as an increasingly formal subject of academic study.
  • The only book to trace developments in the field by individual theologian, rather than thematically, as is the case in other texts.
  • Provides a unique and distinctively theological perspective.
  • Written by leading authorities from around the world.
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The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period
The Medieval Theologians provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the period through an examination of the key individual theologians of the time. Chronologically arranged, it allows students to explore this crucial period when so many important theological developments took place.

  • Covers the important period from the 5th to the 16th centuries, when theology took shape as an increasingly formal subject of academic study.
  • The only book to trace developments in the field by individual theologian, rather than thematically, as is the case in other texts.
  • Provides a unique and distinctively theological perspective.
  • Written by leading authorities from around the world.
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The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period

The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period

The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period

The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period

Overview

The Medieval Theologians provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the period through an examination of the key individual theologians of the time. Chronologically arranged, it allows students to explore this crucial period when so many important theological developments took place.

  • Covers the important period from the 5th to the 16th centuries, when theology took shape as an increasingly formal subject of academic study.
  • The only book to trace developments in the field by individual theologian, rather than thematically, as is the case in other texts.
  • Provides a unique and distinctively theological perspective.
  • Written by leading authorities from around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780631212034
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 02/08/2001
Series: The Great Theologians
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

G. R. Evans is Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of numerous critically-acclaimed books in the fields of patristic, medieval, and Reformation history and theology including Augustine on Evil, Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates, The Church and the Churches, Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages, and Anselm. Dr Evans is a prominent member of the Church and Order Advisory Group of the Church of England and has written extensively on contemporary ecclesiological issues.

Table of Contents

Preface.

List of Contributors.

Introduction. .

Part I: The End of the Ancient World.

1. Augustine of Hippo (John Rist).

2. Boethius, Cassiodorus, Gregory the Great (Charles Kannengiesser).

3. Postpatristic Byzantine Theologians (Andrew Louth).

Part II: The Carolingians.

4. Bede the Theologian (Benedicta Ward).

5. Carolingian Theology (Willemien Otten).

Part III: Rediscovering the Ancient Literature.

6. Berengar,Roscelin, and Peter Damian (G. R. Evans).

7. Anselm of Canterbury (G. R. Evans).

8. Peter Abelard and Gilbert of Poitiers (Lauge O. Nielsen).

9. Bernard of Clairvaux, William of St. Thierry, the Victorines (Emero Stiegman).

10. The Glossa Ordinaria (Jenny Swanson).

11. Peter Lombard (Marcia Colish).

Part IV: The High Medieval Debate.

12. Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (Michael Robson).

13. Thomas Aquinas (Fergus Kerr).

14. Later Medieval Mystics (Oliver Davies).

15. Academic Controversies (Takashi Shogimen).

16. Duns Scotus and William Ockham (Alexander Broadie).

Part V: Dissidence.

17. The Waldenses (Euan Cameron).

18. Dualism (Gerhard Rottenw?hrer).

19. Ecclesiology and Politics (Matthew Kempshall).

20. Wyclif and Lollardy (Stephen Lahey).

Conclusion.

21. Robert Kilwardby, Gabriel Biel, and Luther's Saving Faith (G. R. Evans).

22. Augustine, the Medieval Theologians and the Reformation (Paul Rorem).

Index.

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