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God as First Known
Metselaar, S.
2015
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Metselaar, S. (2015). God as First Known: The Common Ground of Philosophy and Theology in Bonaventure s Thought.
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1
The cognitive priority of the divine before Bonaventure 6
Bonaventure’s transcendentalization of God’s cognitive priority 12
Scholarly literature on Bonaventure’s doctrine of God as first known: an overview 17
Research questions 23 Methodological remarks 25 Overview of the Dissertation 27
1 God as first known in Bonaventure’s metaphysica reducens. The tension between two models of foundation 31
1.1 God as first known and reductive exemplarism 34 1.2 God as first known and the transcendentals 49 1.3 Conclusions 64
2 Resolutio plena as the method of the doctrine of God as first known. Three different critiques on the ‘semi-plena’ 67
2.1 Three types of metaphysical resolution in Thomas Aquinas 72 2.2 Bonaventure’s accounts of resolutio into Deus primum
cognitum 84
2.3 Conclusions 106
3 The role of knowledge of the divine in Bonaventure’s theory of cognition 113
3.1 The primacy of God in all three acts of cognition 117 3.2 The capacities of the human intellect: II Sent.
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3.3 Bonaventure’s innatism 133
3.4 The divine and the created as the dual ground of certain knowledge: De scientia Christi IV 138
3.5 Abstraction in Christus unus omnium Magister 147 3.6 Abstraction, judgment and illumination in the
Itinerarium II 152
3.7 The abstracting and the resolving intellect 161 3.8 Conclusions 163
4 The structural similarity between the Itinerarium mentis in Deum and the Collationes in Hexaemeron with regard to Bonaventure’s doctrine of God as first known 167
4.1 Two accounts of God as first known in the Itinerarium mentis in
Deum 169
4.2 Two accounts of God as first known in the Collationes in
Hexaemeron 193
4.3 Conclusions 220
5 The dynamic doctrine of God as first known in the Itinerarium mentis in
Deum and the Collationes in Hexaemeron 223
5.1 Texts on the medieval meditative ascent: a literary-philosophical genre 224
5.2 The Itinerarium mentis in Deum as ‘transformation text’ 226 5.3 The Collationes in Hexaemeron as ‘transformation text’ 229 5.4 The epistemology of the Itinerarium and the Hexaemeron 231 5.5 Conclusions 238
Conclusions 241
Results 241
The legacy of Bonaventure’s ‘transcendental turn’ 250
