Pain and suffering in medieval theology
Subtitle: academic debates at the University of Paris in the thirteenth century
By: Donald Mowbray.
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781843834618
Subjects: Pain -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 13th century; Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 13th century; Theology -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thirteenth-century theological ideas about human pain and suffering and the Passion of Christ; title: Gendering pain : theological ideas about female and male suffering; title: Pain as a restorative power : voluntary suffering and satisfaction for sin; title: The intellectual development of limbo : pain, children and original sin; title: Anima separata : masters of theology and the controversy surrounding the suffering of the separated soul; title: Defining the corporeal : suffering in hell according to masters of theology at Paris, c. 1230-c. 1280.