A Greek Thomist : providence in Gennadios Scholarios / Matthew C. Briel.

"Matthew Briel examines for the first time the appropriation and modification of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of providence by a fifteenth-century Greek Orthodox theologian, Gennadios Scholarios. Briel investigates the intersection of Aquinas's theology, the legacy of Greek patristic and later theological traditions, and the use of Aristotle's philosophy by Latin and Greek Christian thinkers in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. The broader aim of the book is to reconsider our current understanding of later Byzantine theology by reconfiguring the construction of what constitutes "orthodoxy" within a pro- or anti-Western paradigm. The fruit of this appropriation of Aquinas enriches extant sources for historical and contemporary assessments of Orthodox theology. Moreover, Scholarios's grafting of Thomas onto the later Greek theological tradition changes the account of grace and freedom in Thomistic moral theology. The particular kind of Thomism that Scholarios develops avoids the later vexing issues in the West of the de auxiliis controversy by replacing the Augustinian theology of grace with the highly developed Greek theological concept of synergy"-- Provided by publisher

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I Why Was Providence a Pressing Question -- CHAPTER I God's Wrath? Affliction and the Christian Understanding of Divine Governance -- CHAPTER 2 Why Was Providence a Pressing Question in 1458 -- PART II Predecessors to and Sources of Scholarios' s Theology of Providence -- CHAPTER 3 Greek Patristic and Byzantine Tradition on the Question of Providence -- CHAPTER 4 Thomas Aquinas

PART III The Development of Scholarios' s Thought on Providence, 1432-72 -- CHAPTER 5 The Challenge of Pletho and the Development of Scholarios' s Theology of Providence, 1432-58 -- CHAPTER 6 Scholarios' s Study of Aquinas's Metaphysics -- CHAPTER 7 Historical and Theological Analysis of First Tract on Providence -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Influence and Significance -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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