Brepols Online Books Other Miscellanea Collection 2017 - bob2017miot
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Scholastica Colonialis: Reception and Development of Baroque Scholasticism in Latin America, 16th-18th Centuries
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Scholastica Colonialis: Reception and Development of Baroque Scholasticism in Latin America, 16th-18th Centuries show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Scholastica Colonialis: Reception and Development of Baroque Scholasticism in Latin America, 16th-18th CenturiesThis volume is a collection of studies on Latin American scholasticism originally presented at the Fourth International Conference of Medieval Philosophy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, November 12-14, 2012. These essays provide a significant overview of authors, works and areas of interest associated to scholastic thought in the 16th-18th centuries, focusing particularly on Latin American or European-born authors whose philosophical and theological careers were significantly set in Latin American soil and, due to their education, reveal a profound acquaintance with European philosophical theories and problems. The reception and development of Medieval thought in Baroque scholasticism, the connections between European philosophy, mainly Iberian scholasticism, and philosophical-theological debates in the «New World», and the revisiting by Latin American scholars of Medieval schools of thought and theoretical patterns taught in Europe, prompted by the encounter with several peoples living in the new continent and the search and justification for models of colonization, are some of the relevant issues discussed in here. The studies collected in this volume place colonial scholasticism in the history of ideas by letting authors and their writings speak for themselves.
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Scrinium Augustini. The World of Augustine's Letters
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Scrinium Augustini. The World of Augustine's Letters show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Scrinium Augustini. The World of Augustine's LettersThis volume contains the proceedings of the international symposium on Augustine’s correspondence held at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland) on 25-26 June 2015, which was a part of a wider project dedicated to the study of Augustine’s correspondence. Another part of the project is a fully searchable on-line catalogue of issues present in the Letters (www.scrinium.umk.pl).
The papers presented in the book access the large corpus of Augustine’s epistles from various academic perspectives (theological, philosophical, historical, literary and rhetorical). First, the present study is thematically more wide-ranging than any of those that had been previously published on this subject; second, it is interdisciplinary in its focus and methodology; third, it provides new, substantial insights into selected problems of Augustine’s work; fourth, it approaches the Letters from two complementary, methodological perspectives: the first part of the book contains papers which study widely defined problem in the light of the whole corpus, while those in the second part deal with specific problems found in particular letters. The result is a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex and fascinating Augustinian world, seen through the lens of his letters, provided by authors whose academic experience and scholarly achievements guarantee its quality.
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