Medieval Teachers of Freedom by Marco Antonio Andreacchio PAPERBACK

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Medieval Teachers of FreedomBoethius, Peter Lombard and Aquinas on Creation from Nothing\nAuthor(s): Marco Antonio Andreacchio\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032522371, 978-1032522371\nSynopsis\nMedieval debates over \""divine creation\"" are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between \""Intelligent Design\"" Creationists and Evolutionists. The present investigation cuts through the web of contemporary conflicts to examine problems seated at the heart of medieval talk about creation. From three representative authors we learn that the doctrine of divine creation is supposed to invite understanding of the relation between artistic freedom and natural necessity, of the very essence of causality, and thereby of the nexus between experience (our world of empirical determinations) and reality (the absolute indetermination of eternal being). Most importantly, medieval scholarship shows us that the proble.