The Miscarriage of Sapientia：The impossibility of Theology and the revival of Skepticism

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  • 知恵の挫折：神学の不可能性と懐疑の復活
  • チエ ノ ザセツ : シンガク ノ フカノウセイ ト カイギ ノ フッカツ

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In the late 13th century, facing the rise of rationalism, many theologians had to prove the certainty of theology. Consequently, they adopted the theory of divine illumination, which claims the intervention of God in human intellectual cognition. In such case, however, cognitive species come to be needless, and all theology leaned inevitably towards nominalism which admits the existence of only individual things. But human beings can only recognize things that can be sensed, so we can’t acquire any knowledge about God. As a result, people relied only upon belief, which led consequently to the Reformation and the tragedy of schism. 1st chapter : The theory of abstraction in Thomism and its two difficulties. 2nd chapter : The eclectic theory of Henry of Ghent. 3rd chapter : The theory of john Duns Scotus, who taught that individual things were ultimate perfection. 4th chapter : Occam’s Nominalism which, by negating Scotus’ doctrine of formal univocity, brought impossibility to theology. 5th chapter : Devotionism, Reformation and revival of skepticism in the 16th century.

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    紀要 11 33-86, 2017-03-31

    名寄市立大学

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