Divine illumination
Subtitle: the history and future of Augustine's theory of knowledge
By: Lydia Schumacher
Series: Challenges in contemporary theology
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780470657423
Description: In Divine Illumination, Schumacher offers an original approach to Augustine's theory of divine illumination, the precondition of all human knowledge. Written with great originality and clarity, she traces the idea through medieval thinkers, into early modernity, and reveals its importance in modern theories of knowledge. Takes an original approach to reading Augustine's theory of divine illumination and shows how the theory was transformed and reinterpreted in medieval philosophy and theologyPresents a groundbreaking way of thinking about the writings of Augustine, Anselm, Bon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.