Aquinas and Maimonides on the Possibility of the Knowledge of God: An Examination of the Quaestio de Attributis

by Mercedes Rubio

Book Overview

Purpose Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed is pervaded by a p- manent tension regarding the possibility and extent of the knowledge of God by a created intellect, which lies at the roots of the 13th century controversy over Maimonides' writings. While Maimonides asserts that "its purpose is to give indications to a religious man for whom the validity of our Law has become 1 established in his soul and has become actual in his belief," one of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048171806
• ISBN13: 9789048171804
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"