Overview

Full Product Details

9780199591053

Table of Contents

Reviews

essential for all interested in the religious and intellectual history of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. * Stephen Mossman, Medium Aevum * There are few books that are as careful in its detail and as cosmic in its scope as Adams's Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist: Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the nature of Christ's presence among us. * David Efird, Mind *

<br> Adams presents the arguments of all concerned with precision and sympathy. She explains the fundamental problems these theologians face, the objections they must meet, and the means by which they attempt to integrate their doctrine of real Eucharistic presence into a larger coherent view of the universe. --The Thomist<p><br>

Author Information

Marilyn McCord Adams taught medieval philosophy and philosophy of religion at UCLA for twenty-one years. During this period, she was also ordained an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Los Angeles. She then moved to Yale to become Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology and subsequently to Oxford to take up her post as Regius Professor of Divinity and Canon at Christ Church. She is now Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has published widely on medieval thinkers and on philosophical theology. Her books include William Ockham (2 vols), Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God, and Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available