Intellectual Traditions at the Medieval University ─ The Use of Philosophical Psychology in Trinitarian Theology Among the Franciscans and Dominicans, 1250-1350

The topic was the author's PhD dissertation (1997), and his foundational questions remain the same; but he has re-visited every aspect of what he terms his "naive" earlier investigation and added to it substantially. The present work is in two volumes. In his introduction Friedman (medieval philosophy, U. of Leuven, Belgium) explicates two trinitarian theories--the relation account and the emanation account--and one contested model--the psychological model. Twelve chapters follow arranged under the following broad themes: emerging trinitarian traditions, ca. 1250-1280; the strong use of the psychological model and its opponents, ca. 1280-1320; and the search for simplicity, ca. 1320-1350. A sampling of the thinkers under investigation: Aquinas, Bonaventure, Gerard of Abbeville, Walter of Bruges, Nicholas of Ockham, Roger Marston, Giles of Rome, Henry of Ghent, and Peter Uriol. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Russell L. Friedman, Ph.D. (1997), University of Iowa, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His publications focus on later medieval philosophy and theology, and include Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham (Cambridge University Press, 2010).