Medieval Philosophy and Theology

Medieval Philosophy and Theology is a semi-annual, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the publication of original articles in all areas of medieval philosophy, including logic and natural science, and in medieval theology, including Christian, Jewish, and Islamic. Coverage extends from the Patristic period through the neoscholasticism of the seventeenth century.

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Volume 11, Number 2, (September 2003)

• Miscellaneous Frontmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991)
• Augustine on Original Perception Luca Obertello; 1-17
• Odo of Tournai's De peccato originali and the Problem of Original Sin Irven M. Resnick; 18-38
• Signification and Modes of Signifying in Thirteenth-Century Logic: A Preface to Aquinas on Analogy E. J. Ashworth; 39-67
• Beauty in the Middle Ages: A Forgotten Transcendental? Jan A. Aertsen; 68-97
• Aquinas on Aristotle on Happiness Don Adams; 98-118
• Aquina's Parasitic Cosmological Argument Scott MacDonald; 119-155
• Peter of Candia's Hundred-Year "History" of the Theologian's Role Stephen F. Brown; 156-190

Volume 11, Number 1, (March 2003)

• Aquinas on Attributes Brian Leftow; 1-41
• Divisibility, Communicability, and Predicability in Duns Scotus’s Theories of the Common Nature Richard Cross; 43-63
• Ockham on the Concept John Boler; 65-86
• The Angelic Doctor and Angelic Speech: The Development of Thomas Aquinas’s Thought on How Angels Communicate Harm Goris; 87-105
• Aquinas’s Impediment Argument for the Spirituality of the Human Intellect David P. Lang; 107-124

Volume 10, Number 2, (September 2001)

• Virtus sermonis and the Trinity: Marsilius of Inghen and the Semantics of Late Fourteenth-Century Theology Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen; 151-171
• Letting Scotus Speak for Himself Mary Beth Ingham; 173-216
• Suárez and the Problem of External Sensation James B. South; 217-240
• Suárez’s Influence on Descartes’s Theory of Eternal Truths Amy Karofsky; 241-262
• Divine Needs, Divine Illusions: Preliminary Remarks Toward a Comparative Study of Meister Eckhart and Ibn AľArabi Ian Almond; 263-282

Volume 10, Number 1, (March 2001)

• The Phenomenological Act of perscrutatio in the Proemium of St. Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences Emmanuel Falque; 1-22
• Al-Ghazāī on Possibility and the Critique of Causality Blake D. Dutton; 23-46
• Maimonides’ Demonstrations: Principles and Practice Josef Stern; 47-84
• Aquinas’s Abstractionism Houston Smit; 85-118
• Richard Rufus’s De anima Commentary: The Earliest Known, Surviving, Western De anima Commentary Rega Wood; 119-156

Volume 9, Number 2, (September 2000)

• The Metaphysics of Providence: Aquinas’s Natural Theology in Summa contra gentiles III
• Editor’s Introduction, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 9, no. 2 (2000)
• Scott MacDonald; iii-v
• Table of Contents and Abbreviations, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 9, no. 2 (2000)
• vii-ix
• I. From Creation to Providence Norman Kretzmann; 91-104
• II. Agents, Actions and Ends Norman Kretzmann; 104-126
• III. Badness Norman Kretzmann; 126-156
• IV. God as Nature’s Goa Norman Kretzmann; 156-183

Volume 9, Number 1, (March 2000)

• The Discovery of a Normative Theory of Justice in Medieval Philosophy: On the Reception and Further Development of Aristotle’s Theory of Justice by St. Thomas Aquinas Matthias Lutz-Bachmann; 1-14
• Scotus on Morality and Nature John Hare; 15-38
• Ghazali on Miracles and Necessary Connection George Giacaman, and Raja Bahlul; 39-50
• The Fall of Humanity: Weakness of the Will and Moral Responsibility in the Later Augustine Ann A. Pang-White; 51-67
• Happiness and Freedom in Aquinas’s Theory of Action Colleen McCluskey; 69-90

Volume 8, Number 2, (September 1999)

• Splendid Vices? Augustine For and Against Pagan Virtues T. H. Irwin; 105-127
• Augustine’s Ambivalence About Temporality: His Two Accounts of Time Charlotte Gross; 129-148
• Robert Kilwardby on the Relation of Virtue to Happiness Anthony J. Celano; 149-162
• Aquinas on Our Responsibility for Our Emotions Claudia Eisen Murphy; 163-205
• Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) and Mulla Sadra Shirazi (980/1572–1050/1640) and the Primacy of esse/wujûd in Philosophical Theology David B. Burrell; 207-219

Volume 8, Number 1, (March 1999)

• How Is Material Supposition Possible? Stephen Read; 1-20
• Species, Concept, and Thing: Theories of Signification in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century Giorgio Pini; 21-52
• Idealism in Medieval Philosophy: The Case of Johannes Scottus Eriugena Dermot Moran; 53-82
• Arguments, Texts, and Contexts: Anselm’s Argument and the Friars Scott Matthews; 83-104

Volume 7, Number 2, (September 1998)

• In Memoriam: Norman Kretzmann, 1928–1998
• Scott MacDonald; 111-114
• Augustine on Reasoning from One’s Own Case Gareth B. Matthews; 115-128
• Psychology and Theodicy in Aquinas John R. Bowlin; 129-156
• Meister Eckhart and Jan Van Ruusbroec: A Comparison Rik van Nieuwenhove; 157-193
• Philosophy according to Giles of Rome, De partibus philosophiae essentialibus Mikolaj Olszewski; 195-220
• Maimonides’ Arguments for Creation ex nihilo in the Guide of the Perplexed Andrew L. Gluck; 221-254

Volume 7, Number 1, (March 1998)

• The Logic of Growth: Twelfth-Century Nominalists and the Development of Theories of the Incarnation Christopher J. Martin; 1-15
• The Problem of a Plurality of Eternal Beings in Robert Grosseteste Neil Lewis; 17-38
• The Earliest Known Surviving Western Medieval Metaphysics Commentary Rega Wood; 39-49
• Richard Rufus on Naming Substances Elizabeth Karger; 51-67
• God, Indivisibles, and Logic in the Later Middle Ages: Adam Wodeham’s Response to Henry of Harclay Edith Dudley Sylla; 69-87
• Infinity, Continuity, and Composition: The Contribution of Gregory of Rimini Richard Cross; 89-110

Volume 6, Number 2, (September 1997)

• Miscellaneous Frontmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 2 (1997)
• Olivi on the Metaphysics of Soul Robert Pasnau; 109-132
• Analogy and Formal Distinction: On the Logical Basis of Wyclif's Metaphysics Alessandro D. Conti; 133-166
• Thomas Aquinas and the Voluntarists Jeffrey Hause; 167-182
• Aquinas on Infinite Multitudes Richard L. Cartwright; 183-202
• Mediante universo: A solution to the problem of the procession of a multitude from the One Wouter Goris; 203-212
• Miscellaneous Backmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 2 (1997)

Volume 6, Number 1, (March 1997)

• Miscellaneous Frontmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 1 (1997)
• As It Is, It Is an Ax: Some Medieval Reflections on De Anima II.1. Mary Sirridge; 1-24
• Bonaventure and the Question of a Medieval Philosophy Andreas Speer; 25-46
• The Ethics of al-Razi (865-925?) Thérèse-Anne Druart; 47-72
• Anselm on the Cost of Salvation Brian Leftow; 73-92
• Aquinas on Continuity and Identity Christopher Hughes; 93-108
• Miscellaneous Backmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 1 (1997)

Volume 5, Number 2, (September 1996)

• Miscellaneous Frontmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 2 (1996)
• Did Scotus Embrace Anselm's Notion of Freedom? Douglas Langston; 145-160
• Memory, Individuals, and the Past in Averroes's Psychology Deborah Black; 161-188
• The Second Way Richard L. Cartwright; 189-204
• Back to Nature in Aquinas David B. Twetten; 205-244
• Al-Razi's Conception of the Soul: Psychological Background to His Ethics Thérèse-Anne Druart; 245-264
• A First Glance at Albert the Great's Teachings on Analogy of Words Bruno Tremblay; 265-292
• Corrigenda 293
• Miscellaneous Backmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 2 (1996)

Volume 5, Number 1, (March 1996)

• Miscellaneous Frontmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 1 (1996)
• Augustine on Theological Fatalism: The Argument of De Libero Arbitrio 3.1-4 David P. Hunt; 1-30
• On a Sophisma of Richard Kilvington and a Problem of Analysis Bernard D. Katz; 31-38
• Expositions of the Text: Aquinas's Aristotelian Commentaries John Jenkins; 39-62
• Nicholas of Autrecourt and William of Ockham on Atomism, Nominalism, and the Ontology of Motion Blake D. Dutton; 63-86
• The Semantic Principles Underlying St. Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Being Gyula Klima; 87-144
• Miscellaneous Backmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 1 (1996)

Volume 4 (1994)

• Miscellaneous Frontmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 4 (1994)
• The Polemical Context and Content of Gregory of Nyssa's Psychology Michel R. Barnes; 1-24
• Creation and "Actualism": The Dialectical Dimension of Philosophical Theology David B. Burrell; 25-41
• Natural Reason in the Summa contra Gentiles Rudi A. te Velde; 42-70
• The Competition of Authoritative Languages and Aquinas's Theological Rhetoric Mark D. Jordan; 71-90
• Thomas Wylton's Question "An contingit dare ultimum rei permanentis in esse" Cecilia Trifogli; 91-141
• Ockham and Ambiguity Georgette Sinkler; 142-164
• Robert Holcot, O.P., on Prophecy, the Contingency of Revelation, and the Freedom of God Joseph M. Incandela; 165-188

Volume 3 (1993)

• Miscellaneous Frontmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 3 (1993)
• Rewriting the Narrative of Scripture: 12th-Century Debates over Reason and Theological Form Eileen Sweeney; 1-34
• The Certainty and Scope of Knowledge: Bonaventure's Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ Andreas Speer; 35-61
• Good and the Object of Natural Inclinations in St. Thomas Aquinas John I. Jenkins; 62-96
• [Duns Scotus]] on Signification Dominik Perler; 97-120
• Medieval Supposition Theory in Its Theological Context Stephen F. Brown; 121-157
• Nominalism Meets Indivisibilism Jack Zupko; 158-185
• The Church in the Light of Learned Ignorance Thomas M. Izbicki; 186-214

Volume 2 (1992)

• Miscellaneous Frontmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992)
• Richard Rufus of Cornwall on Creation: The Reception of Aristotelian Physics in the West Rega Wood; 1-30
• St. Albert on the Subject of Metaphysics and Demonstrating the Existence of God Timothy B. Noone; 31-52
• Towards a Narrative Understanding of Thomistic Natural Law Pamela M. Hall; 53-73
• St. Thomas Aquinas on Satisfaction, Indulgences, and Crusades Romanus Cessario; 74-96
• On the Purpose of "Merit" in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas Joseph Wawrykow; 97-116
• Another Look at St. Thomas and the Plurality of the Literal Sense of Scripture Mark F. Johnson; 117-141
• [Duns Scotus]] on Autonomous Freedom and Divine Co-Causality William A. Frank; 142-164
• Pico, Plato, and Albert the Great: The Testimony and Evaluation of Agostino Nifo Edward P. Mahoney; 165-192

Volume 1 (1991)

• Miscellaneous Frontmatter, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991)
• Augustine on Original Perception Luca Obertello; 1-17
• Odo of Tournai's De peccato originali and the Problem of Original Sin Irven M. Resnick; 18-38
• Signification and Modes of Signifying in Thirteenth-Century Logic: A Preface to Aquinas on Analogy E. J. Ashworth; 39-67
• Beauty in the Middle Ages: A Forgotten Transcendental? Jan A. Aertsen; 68-97
• Aquinas on Aristotle on Happiness Don Adams; 98-118
• Aquina's Parasitic Cosmological Argument Scott MacDonald; 119-155
• Peter of Candia's Hundred-Year "History" of the Theologian's Role Stephen F. Brown; 156-190