Bradwardine and the Pelagians
A Study of his 'De Causa Dei' and it's Opponents

Dr Leff explains Bradwardnie's system of thought and relates it to the ideas of his contemporaries.

Gordon Leff (Author)

9780521081627, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 September 2008

300 pages
21.5 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.3 kg

The intellectual history of the fourteenth century is still little known. Apart from the great figures like Ockham and Wyclif we have no detailed knowledge of the leading thinkers or the movements which may be deduced from their work. Dr Leff explains Bradwardnie's system of thought and relates it to the ideas of his contemporaries; these contemporaries are shown to have had their own differences of outlook, and the fourteenth century as a whole is also shown to have differed greatly from the thirteenth.

Part I. 'De Causa Dei': 1. The Divine Nature (I): Divine Being and its Attributes
2. The Divine Nature (II): Intellect and Will
3. Creation: Its Laws, its Nature and the Place of Sin
4. Grace
5. Man
6. Necessity, Liberty and Contingency
7. Assessment
Part II. The Pelagians: 8. The Pleagians
9. The Traditional Background to the Disputes Between Bradwardine and the Pleagians
10. Durandus of St Pourcain: One of the Precursors
11. William of Ockham: The Central Figure
12. Aspects of Scepticism
13. The Disputes and After.

Subject Areas: History [HB]