This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The present volume, the first edition of the De Trinitate since that of 1674, has been in preparation for some years, and it is thanks to the cooperation and assistance of many people both in Europe and in North America that this work now appears in print. [...] Special thanks go to the library staff of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto for the facilities offered to me, and particularly to the staff of the Department of Publications of the same Institute for their generous assistance in preparing my manuscript for press. [...] This same Pope Gregory strongly rebuked William for his lack of initiative in settling the notorious disturbances at the University of Paris during the years 1229-1231.3 Yet William, as Bishop of Paris, helped to introduce the first mendicant masters to the University of Paris, by assigning in 1229 a chair to the Dominican Roland of Cremona, and by permitting a secular master, Alexander of Hales, [...] As a churchman, administrator and scholar, William both witnessed and contributed significantly to the formation of the new intellectual milieu which was being shaped by three rising forces: the universities, the mendicant orders, and the introduction of Aristotelian, Arab and Jewish thought into the Latin West. [...] As Gilson has noted, his outlook and style are deeply rooted in the Platonic and Augustinian reaction to the new Arab influences at the end of the twelfth century; yet both his critical evaluation of Avicenna and his in- sistence upon approaching philosophy with philosophical tools alone place him squarely in the century of Albert and Thomas.7 He thus transformed the old Augustinian tradition into
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 8
- Abbreviations 12
- Acknowledgments 14
- Introduction 16
- A. William of Auvergne 16
- 1. Life and Thought 16
- 2. Intellectual Influences 18
- B. De Trinitate 20
- 1. Introduction 20
- 2. Contents 21
- C. The Text 23
- 1. The Manuscripts 23
- 2. Stemma 25
- 3. Method 26
- William of Auvergne, De Trinitate 28
- Sigla 29
- Prologus libri 30
- Capitulum primum: Quod ens de aliquo dicitur secundum essentiam et de aliquo dicitur secundum participationem 31
- Cap. 2. Quod illud quod habet esse secundum essentiam est incausatum 35
- Cap. 3. Quod illud ens est omnino simplex, a circumvestitione accidentium alienum 40
- Cap. 4. Quod illud ens est unum et nullo modo commune 41
- Cap. 5. Quod illud ens est causa omnium aliorum 49
- Cap. 6. Quod omne esse secundarium necessario dependet a primo esse 50
- Cap. 7. Quod omne esse potentiale a primo esse dependet et ab ipso educitur ad actum 58
- Cap. 8. Quod potentia est principium effectuum et operationum 63
- Cap. 9. Quod est aliqua prima potentia per se ipsam omnipotens, et sua voluntate, et sua sapientia 69
- Cap. 10. Licet sapientia et voluntas et potentia divina sit aeterna, non oportet aliquem effectum fuisse ab aeterno 81
- Cap. 11. Quod voluntas divina novas res producit immutabilis omnino permanens 88
- Cap. 12. Quod res omnes de exuberantia supremi largitoris iuxta suum beneplacitum effluunt 92
- Cap. 13. Recapitulatio praecedentium quorundam 95
- Cap. 14. Quod in prima fontali essentia sunt tres res, quarum una habet esse fontaliter et primitive, secunda per generationem, et tertia per processionem 97
- Cap. 15. Quod una emanatio, quae est per modum generationis, est sapientia sive verbum; alia est per modum doni seu amoris, qui est nexus amborum, videlicet Spiritus Sanctus 106
- Cap. 16. Quod prima emanatio per modum generationis producitur sicut intellectio vel verbum ab intelligente 113
- Cap. 17. Quod verbum est suo intelligenti coaequale per omnia 115
- Cap. 18. Quod verbum divinum est Patri coaeternum 117
- Cap. 20. Quod primogenitor et primogenitus communicant in aliqua re tertia 126
- Cap. 21. Quod Spiritus Sanctus per modum puri doni et perfectissimi amoris procedit 128
- Cap. 22. Quod amor quo Pater et Verbum diligunt se est eadem essentia cum ipsis et aequalis per omnia 133
- Cap. 23. Quod inter primos amantes se possibile est esse unicum amorem 134
- Cap. 24. Quod omnia sunt subiecta Filio et Spiritui Sancto sicut Patri 139
- Cap. 25. Quod in singulis rebus beatissima Trinitas reluceat 147
- Cap. 26. Quod in anima rationali imago Trinitatis reperitur 157
- Cap. 27. Quod Trinitas personarum simplicitati ac unitati essentiae non derogat 170
- Cap. 28. De differentia et diversitate trium personarum ab invicem 173
- Cap. 29. Quod relationes in divinis non sunt res a personis distinctae 181
- Cap. 30. Quod notiones nihil addunt ipsis personis divinis 185
- Cap. 31. Quod relationes non sunt res superadditae rebus comparatis 189
- Cap. 32. Quod esse Patrem non dicit aliquid novum in Patre, sed Filium ad quern se habet Pater 193
- Cap. 33. Quod per generationem Filii aeternam nulla mutatio vel aliquid aliud accidit in Patre 199
- Cap. 34. Quod actio agentis et effectuatio non sunt res distinctae 202
- Cap. 35. Quod istae praepositiones 'a', 'ab' et ceterae important solum principium productionis Filii et nihil novum in Patre 205
- Cap. 36. Quod paternitas, ut paternitas est, non dicit quid vel aliquid, sed magis habitudinem seu ad aliquid 207
- Cap. 37. Concordantur diversae opiniones de notionibus 212
- Cap. 38. Quod proprie loquendo paternitas non dicitur genuisse nec filiatio genita fuisse 215
- Cap. 39. Quod ex positione paternitatis nihil accessit ipsi Deo, nee ex remotione aliquid detrahitur vel diminuitur 221
- Cap. 40. Quod sive paternitas concedatur esse ab alio sive non, tamen oportet concedere filiationem ab alio esse 224
- Cap. 41. De numero communi notionum 228
- Cap. 42. De diversitate notionum 233
- Cap. 43. Quod Pater et Filius una spiratione producunt et spirant Spiritum Sanctum 236
- Cap. 44. De diversitate praedicamentorum et modorum loquendi Deo attributorum 240
- Bibliography 270
- Index Nominum 275
- A 275
- B 275
- C 275
- D 275
- E 275
- G 275
- H 275
- I 275
- J 275
- K 275
- L 275
- M 275
- N 276
- O 276
- P 276
- R 276
- S 276
- T 276
- V 276
- W 276
- Index of Scriptural Citations 277
- Index Rerum 278
- A 278
- B 278
- C 278
- D 279
- E 279
- F 280
- G 281
- H 281
- I 281
- L 281
- M 282
- N 282
- O 282
- P 282
- Q 283
- R 283
- S 283
- T 283
- U 284
- V 284