Contemplation and philosophy : scholastic and mystical modes of Medieval philosophical thought : a tribute to Kent Emery, Jr. / edited by Roberto Hofmeister Pich, Andreas Speer.

This volume collects essays which are thematically connected through the work of Kent Emery Jr., to whom the volume is dedicated. A main focus lies on the attempts to bridge the gap between mysticism and a systematic approach to medieval philosophical thought. The essays address a wide range of topics concerning (a) the nature of the human soul (in philosophical and theological discourse); (b) medieval theories of cognition (natural and supernatural), self-knowledge and knowledge of God; (c) the human soul's contemplation of, and union with, God; (d) the tradition of the modes of theology in the Middle Ages; (e) the relation between philosophy and theology. Various articles are dedicated to major figures of the 13th and 14th century philosophy, others display new material based on critical editions.

Contributions in English, French, and German, with some text in Latin.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Conceptual approaches. Les notions de puissance et d' harmonie chez Porphyre / Stephen Gersh -- La philosophie comme consideration, la contemplation et ses moyens selon Bernard de Clairvaux / Christian Trottmann -- Contemplation and philosophy: a historical and systematic approach / Andreas Speer -- The two "late Middle Ages" / William J. Courtenay -- Die scotische Unterscheidung von Essenz und Energie bei Georgios Scholarios und die inneren Quellen der palamitischen Tradition / Georgi Kapriev -- Struggling with philosophy. What a philosopher may learn from theologians: Albert the Great on the principles of movement in humans (De anima III, 9-11) / Carlos Steel -- Dreams and divinatory dreams in Albert the Great's Liber de somno et vigilia / Silvia Donati -- Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon and the magicians on the power of words / Steven P. Marrone -- Can it be proved, following Thomas's philosophical principles, that the human soul is naturally incorruptible? / Bernardo Carlos Bazan -- Henry of Ghent on knowledge, remembrance, and the order of cognitive acts: the problematic legacy of Thomas Aquinas / Bernd Goehring -- Understanding theology. The parts of Henry of Ghent's Quaestiones ordinariae (summa) / Gordon A. Wilson -- A Thomist facing the challenge of Henry of Ghent: an edition and study of Distinction 2 from James of Metz's commentary on Book I of the Sentences / Mikolaj Olszewski -- James of Metz's lectura on the Sentences / Chris Schabel -- Peter Aureoli's various uses of Averroes to illustrate the sapiential character of declarative theology / Stephen Brown -- The first known. Primum cognitum at the end of the 13th century: Raymundus Rigaldus and Duns Scotus / Timothy B. Noone -- Esse consecutive cognitum: a fourteenth-century theory of divine ideas / Garrett R. Smith -- Meister Eckhart's legacy. More than one Eckhart? the Parisian Eckhart and the 'Opus tripartitum': the need for a more homogeneous picture of his thought / Jan A. Aertsen -- Eckhart and the power of the imagination / Alessandro Palazzo -- Locutio emphatica: argumentative strategies in Meister Eckhart's German sermons / Loris Sturlese -- Mystical theology and contemplation. The Tractatus de mistica theologia by Ioannes de Indagine, O.Cart (+1475) / Stephen M. Metzger -- A newly discovered recension of Gerson's Annotatio doctorum aliquorum qui de contemplatione locuti sunt: evidence for Gerson's reading of De imitatione Christi? / Daniel Hobbins -- Prospects of the Second Scholastic. Alfonso Briceno O.F.M. (1587-1668) on John Duns Scotus's metaphysical groundworks of theology: the controversies on infinity / Roberto Hofmeister Pich -- Antonio Ruiz de Montoya's Firestone of divine love (Silex del divino amor): the spiritual journey of a Jesuit among the Guarani / Alfredo Santiago Culleton -- Hyacinthe de Chalvet on beauty: keeping up anti-scholastic appearances / Guy Guldentops.