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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Black, Winston E., "William of Auvergne on the Dangers of Paradise: Biblical Exegesis between Natural Philosophy and Anti-Islamic Polemic", Traditio, 68 (2013), 233-258.
- Resum
- William of Auvergne, bishop of Paris (1228-1249), argued in several treatises that the delights of the Earthly Paradise enjoyed by Adam and Eve before sin are no longer accessible to mankind and would be physically and spiritually harmful to a postlapsarian human surrounded by them. The first part of this theory is typical of Christian biblical exegesis, but the second is idiosyncratic and apparently contradicts prevailing popular and learned beliefs that Paradise would still be a place of the greatest delights if it could be entered. His arguments for the impossibility of a Paradise of physical delights are based on two important aspects of his thought: the influence of Greco-Arabic natural philosophy and his hatred of “Mohammedan” (Islamic) teachings about Paradise and the afterlife. Because an afterlife spent enjoying the delights of a carnal paradise is central to William's understanding of Muhammad's teaching, he endeavors to show that the Christian Paradise to come is the opposite of the Muslim Paradise: purely spiritual, delighting the soul not the body, and sharing only a name with the original Paradise.
- Matèries
- Religió - Teologia cristiana
Filosofia - Filosofia natural
- URL
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/24642734
https://www.academia.edu/3783854/William_of_Auvergn ...
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