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The Critique on Natural Causality in the Mutakallimun and Nominalism
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The most significant development in medieval Islamic thought was the emergence in the ninth and tenth centuries of a theological reaction against some of the rationalistic and deterministic elements of Greek philosophy that had begun to influence Islamic life and thought as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
One of the most significant developments in medieval Islamic thought was the emergence in the ninth and tenth centuries of a theological reaction against some of the rationalistic and deterministic elements of Greek philosophy that had begun to influence Islamic life and thought. Alongside the assimilation of Greek ideas and the development of Arabic philosophy by al-Kindi, al-Farabi, and Avicenna, a counter-movement arose, among the Mutakallimun (speculative theologians), that rejected any attempt to view nature as a closed, eternal, and necessary system or to view God as limited by human conceptions of justice or by human free will.read more
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The Wycliffite Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts
TL;DR: Ghosh as mentioned in this paper argues that one of the main reasons for Lollardy's sensational resonance for its times, and for its immediate posterity, was its exposure of fundamental problems in late medieval academic engagement with the Bible, its authority and its polemical uses.
Creation, Contingency, and Early Modern Science: The Impact of Voluntarist Theology on Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
TL;DR: The separation of science and theology was first discussed by Foster in the early 17th century as mentioned in this paper, who argued that both the manner in which and the degree to which the world could be understood depended upon how God had acted in creating it and how he continued to act in sustaining it.
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From black magic to heresy : A doctrinal leap in the pontificate of john XXII
TL;DR: Boureau as mentioned in this paper has suggested that the question that truly concerned the pope was not witchcraft or ritual magic per se, but the role of the devil in these practices, based on a wide-ranging theory of late medieval representations of individual subjectivity and society, on the principle of "pact" or covenant between two free-willing parties.
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John Went, O.F.M., and Divine Omnipotence
TL;DR: The Commentary on the Sentences by John Went, O.F.M., composed at Oxford 1338-39 as mentioned in this paper, shows that in fourteenth-century England a preoccupation with God's absolute power was widespread.
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History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages
TL;DR: Gilson's recent publication, History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages as mentioned in this paper, is a comprehensive analysis of philosophical thought from the second century to the fifteenth century, from the Greek Apologists through Nicolas of Cusa.
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Ockham, Buridan, and Nicholas of Autrecourt
TL;DR: In the Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis, under the dates September 25th and December 29th, 1339 and 1340, we find two statutes of the Faculty of Arts which are described as defense measures against the incursion of Ockhamist teachings into the Parisian university as discussed by the authors.
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Ghazali and Demonstrative Science
TL;DR: Ghazali (al-Ghazli) as mentioned in this paper argued that there is no causal agency in natural things and that all natural events are the direct creation of God, and that the divine act, for Ghazali, is not an essential act.
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Islamic Occasionalism: and its critique by Averroes and Aquinas
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a number of distinctively Islamic concepts such as fatalism and the surrender of personal endeavour cannot be fully understood except in the perspective of the occasionalist world view of Islam, and discuss the attacks on Occasionalism made by Averroes and St Thomas Aquinas.