Bernard McGinn
Autore di The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
Sull'Autore
Bernard McGinn is one of the greatest living authorities in Catholic historical theology. The Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor of Historical Theology and History of Christianity (Emeritus) at the University of Chicago, Dr. McGinn is the author of several books, including the multivolume Presence mostra altro of God series, the magisterial study of Christian mysticism. mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Bernard McGinn
The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing (A Herder & Herder book) (2001) — Autore — 80 copie
Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete (1994) 65 copie
Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism: Volume 2: Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (1998) 23 copie
The Persistence of Mysticism in Catholic Europe: France, Italy, and Germany 1500-1675 (The Presence of God) (2020) 16 copie
The Crisis of Mysticism: Quietism in Seventeenth-Century Spain, Italy, and France (The Presence of God) (2021) 12 copie
Eriugena: East and West : Papers of the Eighth International Colloquium of the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian… (1994) 7 copie
Die mystik im Abendland. die mystik in den Niederlanden, Italien und England (1350-1550) / Band 5, Vielfalt (2016) 3 copie
The renewal of mystical theology : essays in memory of John N. Jones (1964-2012) (2017) — A cura di — 2 copie
The Presence of God : 2 copie
The Persistence of Mysticism in Catholic Europe: France, Italy, and Germany 1500-1675, Part 3 (6) (The Presence of God) (2023) 1 copia
Praying with the masters today 1 copia
Introducing Teresa of Avila : Mount Carmel retreat centre, Sydney, 21st April 2015 - 23rd April 2015 1 copia
Opere correlate
Meister Eckhart Vol 2: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense (1981) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 374 copie
Scripture and Pluralism: Reading the Bible in the Religiously Plural Worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Studies… (2005) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
How the West Was Won: Essays on Literary Imagination, the Canon, and the Christian Middle Ages for Burcht Pranger… (2010) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1937-08-19
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Yonkers, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Istruzione
- St. Joseph's Seminary (BA | 1959)
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (STL | 1963)
Brandeis University (PhD | 1970) - Attività lavorative
- professor
theologian (Roman Catholic)
historian - Relazioni
- McGinn, Patricia Ferris (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- Roman Catholic Church
American Historical Association
Mediaeval Academy of America
American Catholic Historical Association
American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 49
- Opere correlate
- 15
- Utenti
- 2,530
- Popolarità
- #10,145
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 89
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 1
Still, whatever your personal stance towards faith and its relationship to reason, an account of who Aquinas actually was and how he came to write this massively influential tome should be of at least mild interest. The book is divided into 5 chapters:
- The World That Made Thomas Aquinas
- Creating the Summa Theologiae
- A Tour of the Summa Theologiae
- The Tides of Thomism, 1275-1850
- The Rise and Fall of Neo-Thomism
The first chapter talks about the religious environment Aquinas grew up in, and what his intellectual influences were, as a Benedictine specifically and as a Catholic more generally. The second discusses his decision to embark on the project of writing the Summa, his working style, and how he was able to write the treatise while carrying on incredible amounts of correspondence with other important figures of the day. The third is a high-level overview of the Summa, his almost lawyerly approach to argumentation, and how he organized such a gigantic work. The fourth traces the impact of the Summa on theological debates, and how it fared over such a long time period as a work that had to be either affirmed or argued against, but never ignored. The fifth introduces the 19th century Neo-Thomist/Neo-Scholasticist movement that attempted to resuscitate Aquinas' general approach to theology in a post-enlightenment world, to varying degrees of success.
At first it might seem necessary to be religious, and more specifically Catholic, to fully enjoy the book, but McGinn approaches his subject with the air of a historian and not a religious partisan, so it remains accessible to people of any persuasion. The source material retains its place as one of the most thought-provoking works of theology ever written, and this is a welcome overview for those who, like me, aren't up to summiting the whole thing.… (altro)