Foundation and Restoration in Hugh Of St. Victors De Sacramentis [Hardcover]

Taking Hugh of St. Victor's On the Sacraments of the Christian Faith as his source text, Dillard applies the methods of analytic philosophy to develop a systematic theology in the spirit of Christian Platonism, exploring questions that remain pressing for readers interested in philosophy, theology, religion, and the history of medieval thought.Introduction 1. Theological Anthropocentrism 2. Creation Ex Nihilo 3. Sacramental Realism 4. Divine Immutability and Eternity 5. From Epistemological to Trinitarian Exemplarity 6. Of Rebel Angels 7. Of Human Hubris 8. Human Significance Crippled and Restored 9. Hugh's Dualism 10. Personhood, Human and Divine 11. Evil, Theodicy, and God's Love 12. Ecclesiology and Eschatology

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Peter S. Dillard is an independent scholar and a former instructor at Villanova University, USA.