Title: The fathers and beyond : church fathers between ancient and medieval thought /
Authors: Colish, Marcia L.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Fathers of the church.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Philosophy, Medieval.
Contents: The neoplatonic tradition : the contribution of Marius Victorinus -- St. Augustine's rhetoric of silence revisited -- The Stoic hypothetical syllogisms and their transmission in the Latin west through the early Middle Ages -- Cosmetic theology : the transformation of a Stoic theme -- Cicero, Ambrose, and Stoic ethics : transmission or transformation? -- Classicism and catechesis in the patriarch treatises of Ambrose of Milan -- Ambrose of Milan on chastity -- Why the Portiana? : reflections on the Milanese basilica crisis of 386 -- Carolingian debates over nihil and tenebrae : a study in theological method -- Mathematics, the monad, and John the Scot's conception of nihil -- John the Scot's Christology and soteriology in relation to his Greek sources -- Eleventh-century grammar in the thought of St. Anselm -- St. Anselm's philosophy of language reconsidered -- The Stoic theory of verbal signification and the problem of lies and false statements from antiquity to St. Anselm -- Rethinking lying in the twelfth century -- Sanza 'nfamia e sanza lodo : moral neutrality from Alan of Lille to Dante -- The virtuous pagan : Dante and the Christian tradition.