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Nothaft, C. Philipp E., "Origen, climate change, and the erosion of mountains in Giles of Lessines's discussion of the eternity of the world (c. 1260)", The Mediaeval Journal, 4/1 (2014), 43-69.

Resum

The article analyzes and edits a chapter from the unpublished Summa de temporibus (ca. 1260–64), a compendium on historical chronology written by the Dominican philosopher Giles of Lessines. It will be shown that this chapter contributed a number of original ideas to the thirteenth-century debate on the eternity of the world, ranging from sophisticated arguments based on natural philosophy (astronomy and geology) to a scriptural refutation of Origen's doctrine on the pre-existence of souls. Attention will also be paid to the relation between Giles's text and the anti-eternalistic arguments found in other contemporary writers. Some signs of doctrinal convergence with the works of Albertus Magnus confirm the view that the latter was Giles's teacher.

Matèries

Astronomia i astrologia
Filosofia - Filosofia natural