Against the Backdrop of Sovereignty and Absolutism

Against the Backdrop of Sovereignty and Absolutism

The Theology of God's Power and Its Bearing on the Western Legal Tradition, 1100-1600

Quaglioni, Diego; Traversino Di Cristo, Massimiliano

Brill

05/2022

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Inglês

9789004503694

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Foreword??

by Diego Quaglioni??



Acknowledgements??


Abbreviations??


Introduction??


1???A Normative History of Power ?The Distinction between? potentia Dei absoluta ?and? ordinata??


2???The Theology of God's Power as an Archaeology of the Modern Notion of Power??

?1?The Role of the Roman Church in the Middle Ages and the Canon Lawyers


?2?The Theology of God's Power(s) and Its Juridification


?3?Natural Logocentrism and Divine Voluntarism


?4?William of Ockham and the Early-Modern Tendencies towards Religious Reform and Natural Philosophy


?5?The Question of God's Power Applied to the Construction of Papal Authority


?6?The Fourteenth-Century Civil Lawyers and Their Analysis of the Prince's Power


?7?One Step Backward, One Step Forward: The Divide between Reason and Will and the Christian Tendencies towards Religious Reform




3???The Classic Age of the Distinction ?The Pontificate of John? ??xxii?? ?(1316-34)???

?1?The Church and the Question of Poverty in the 1320-30s


?2?The Debate over Poverty as a Juristic Confrontation on Papal Power


?3?The Distinction potentia Dei absoluta/ordinata? in Scotus, Ockham, and John xxii


?4?God as Unity and Simplicity in Eckhart and Ockham-and Eckhart's Rejection of the Distinction potentia Dei absoluta/ordinata???


?5?Eckhart's Way to the Modern Era


?6?God's Powers, a True or an Alleged Distinction?


?7?John xxii's Pontificate and the Cases of Eckhart and Ockham: Conservative and Innovative Tendencies




4???The Distinction in the Early-Modern Era ?Bruno, Gentili, and the Sixteenth-Century Debate on Native Americans???

?1?The Question of the Condition of Native Americans


?2?Religion and Humanism in the Debate over the European Right of Conquest


?3?Initial Conclusions


?4?Bruno's Notions of the Infinite and potentia Dei absoluta???


?5?Civil and Ethical Spin-Offs: The 'American Proof' of Bruno's Cosmological Infinite


?6?Gentili's Criticism of War in General


?7?Gentili's View on Colonization: His Concepts of Natural Equality and Historical Inequality


?8?The Question of whether Trade Is a Factor of Civilization and Indicative of Social Progress


?9?Final Conclusions




5???Gentili's Religion and the Secularization of the Theology of God's Power??


Conclusion??


Appendix??


List of Works Cited??


Index of Names??