Covenant Causality in Medieval Thought - Studies in Philosophy, Theology, and Economic Practice

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- Preface - THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IDEA • Necessity and Freedom in Anselm's Conception of God • Sacrament, Symbol and Causality in Bernard of Clairvaux • Nature and the Natural in Twelfth-Century Thought • The Dialectic of Divine Omnipotence • The Critique on Natural Causality in the Mutakallimun and Nationalism - THE SOCIAL-ECONOMIC CONTEXT • The King and the Leaden Coin: The Economic Background of 'Sine qua non' Causality • Token Coinage and the Administration of Poor Relief during the Late Middle Ages - CONSEQUENCES IN LATE MEDIEVAL THOUGHT • John of Mirecourt and Gregory of Rimini on Whether God Can Undo the Past • John of Mirecourt (continued) • Covenant and Causality in Pierre d'Ailly • Cranmer as a Nominalist - Sed contra - NOMINALISM AND ASCRIBED VALUE • Nominalism and Late Medieval Religion - The Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Religion • Nominalism and Late Medieval Thought: a Bibliographical Essay • Late Medieval Nominalism Revisited: 1972-1982 - Index