Divine illumination : the history and future of Augustine's theory of knowledge /

• Main Author: Schumacher, Lydia
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Series: Challenges in contemporary theology.
• Subjects: Augustine, > Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Augustine, > Saint, Bishop of Hippo. > De Trinitate.; Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.; Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Electronic books.

In Divine Illumination, Schumacher offers an original approach to Augustine's theory of divine illumination, the precondition of all human knowledge. Written with great originality and clarity, she traces the idea through medieval thinkers, into early modernity, and reveals its importance in mo...