Natural Final Causality and Scholastic Thought by Corey Barnes
This book examines scholastic conceptions of final causality through the methods and concerns of historical theology. It argues the history of final causality is most profitably understood according to the interplay of regularity, order, and intentionality as interpretive categories. Within this analytic framework, the author explores the history and theological implications of final causality from Aristotle to Nicole Oresme, utilizing shifts in the dominant interpretive category to clarify how final causality could change from one of four co-equal explanatory strategies in Aristotle to the cause of causes in Avicenna to a merely metaphorical cause in Walter Chatton. Theological debates - ranging from questions of creation, the relationship of primary and secondary causality and of the ultimate good to secondary goods, the autonomy or instrumentality of nature, and the compatibility of chance with providence - motivated many of these changes. The chapters examine final causality in Aristotle and the commentorial tradition from late antiquity to medieval Arabic sources and then consider in detail various scholastic understandings and uses of final causality. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of historical theology, systematic theology, scholastic thought, and medieval philosophy.-
Theology of Work
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Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
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Contextual Theology
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The Use and Abuse of the Spirit in Pentecostalism
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Christian Theology and Ecological Grief
- Soul, Structure, and Transformation
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Augustine and Frontiers of Pluralism
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Epistemology as Theology
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The Fourth Pentecostal Wave in South Africa
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A New Theist Response to the New Atheists
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Anamnesis and the Eucharist
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Metaphysics as Christology
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The Nature of the Soul
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Engaging Deconstructive Theology
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Revelation, Scripture and Church
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Narrative Theology and Moral Theology
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Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture
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God in the Act of Reference
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The Identity of Christian Morality
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Changing Climate, Changing Religion
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Theology on the Border
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Barth and Ecotheology
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Tuvalu, Theology, and the Geopolitics of Climate Change
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Jesus, the Gospels, and African Christianity
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God as the Event of Being
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Apocalyptic Phenomenology
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Divine Presence as Activity and the Incarnation
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Theological Dissent in Post-Vatican II Catholicism
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Structural Sin and the Death of Institutions
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Feminist Eschatology
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Hope from a Body in Pain
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Faith, Grace, and Freedom
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How Children's Worship Changed the Church
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Anglican Confirmation 1820-1945
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Recognition and Religion
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Infinite Risk Theology
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The Soul of Theological Anthropology
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Multilateral Theology
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Conflict and Catholic Social Ethics
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Divine Revelation and the Sciences
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Pentecostalism in the Postcolony
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Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion
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Pentecostal Theology for the Twenty-First Century
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Evagrius Ponticus
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Beyond Evangelicalism
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Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism
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Pseudo-Dionysius as Polemicist
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Reading Anselm's Proslogion
Corey Barnes is Robert S. Danforth Associate Professor of Religion at Oberlin College, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781032772004 |
| ISBN 10 | 103277200X |
| Title | Natural Final Causality and Scholastic Thought |
| Author | Corey Barnes |
| Series | Routledge New Critical Thinking In Religion Theology And Biblical Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2025-12-26 |
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