Richard of Saint Victor On the Trinity : English translation and commentary PDF
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On the Trinity Richard of Saint Victor English translation and commentary by Ruben Angelici C On the Trinity On the Trinity Richard of Saint Victor English Translation and Commentary by Ruben Angelici C James Clarke & Co James Clarke & Co P.O. Box 60 Cambridge CB1 2NT United Kingdom www.jamesclarke.co [email protected] ISBN: 978 0 227 67997 5 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A record is available from the British Library First published by James Clarke & Co, 2012 Copyright © Ruben Angelici, 2011 First Published, 2011 Published by arrangement with Cascade Books All rights reserved. No part of this edition may be reproduced, stored electronically or in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the Publisher ([email protected]) To my Wife To my Mother Contents Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations x PART ONE: Introduction and Commentary The Twelfth Century Milieu and the Victorine School 3 The Need for a Modern, English Translation of Richard of Saint Victor’s De Trinitate 6 The State of the Question: General Overview of the History of Trinitarian Thought 8 Richard of Saint Victor: Faith, Reason, and the Analysis of the Problem of Knowledge in De Trinitate 17 De Trinitate: De Deo Uno 23 De Trinitate: De Deo Trino 42 Concluding Remarks 59 PART TWO: On the Trinity Prologue 63 Synopsis of the Topics of the First Book 71 Book I 73 Synopsis of the Topics of the Second Book 90 Book II 92 Synopsis of the Topics of the Third Book 113 Book III 115 Synopsis of the Topics of the Fourth Book 138 Book IV 141 Synopsis of the Topics of the Fifth Book 168 Book V 171 Synopsis of the Topics of the Sixth Book 201 Book VI 204 vii Contents Bibliography 241 Scripture Index Author Index viii Acknowledgements The author would like to express his warm appreciation to the Revd. Dr. David L. Rainey for his guidance and encouragement in the prepara- tion of this study; to the late Professor David F. Wright for his careful advice and critical appraisal in the preliminary stages of the present translation; and to Cascade Books, for the decision to publish this work on Medieval Theology in their imprint. Ruben Angelici September 2010 ix
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