What Sort of Human Nature?: Medieval Philosophy and the Systematics of Christology

What Sort of Human Nature?......Page 2
What Sort of Human Nature? Medieval Philosophy and the Systematics of Christology by Marilyn McCord Adams......Page 4
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Prefatory......Page 6
I. Introduction......Page 8
2.1. The Improprieties of Incarnation......Page 11
2.2. The Exigencies of Satisfaction......Page 13
2.3. Other Job-Requirements......Page 16
2.4. Summary......Page 17
III. Lombard’s Sentences: Shaping Tradition......Page 18
(1) Impeccability?......Page 20
(2) Fullness of Grace......Page 21
(4) The Limits of Human Power......Page 22
3.2. Expedient Defects!......Page 23
4.1. Incarnation Anyway?......Page 25
4.2. Deiformity as a Requirement for Union with God......Page 29
4.2.1. Finite Fullness of Grace......Page 31
4.2.2. Fullness of Knowledge......Page 33
4.2.3. Straddling the Stages!......Page 36
4.3. The Assumed Nature, How Defective?......Page 38
4.3.1. Assuming Adam?......Page 39
4.3.2. Posse Peccare?......Page 40
4.3.3. Vulnerability and Weakness......Page 41
4.4. Appetites at Odds?......Page 44
4.5. The Passions of the Soul......Page 46
4.6. Appetites and States......Page 48
V. Aquinas’ Analysis......Page 50
5.1. Fullness of Grace......Page 53
5.2. Surplus Knowledge......Page 54
5.3. Omnipotence, a Divine Prerogative......Page 58
5.4. Satisfying Defects!......Page 60
(1) Bodily Defects......Page 62
(2) Immunity from Sin......Page 63
(3) Incarnational Action Theory—Appetites Vulnerable or Conforming?......Page 65
5.5. Summary......Page 68
VI. Scotistic Subtleties......Page 69
6.1. Incarnation at the Heart of Creation......Page 70
6.2. The Limited Impact of Hypostatic Union......Page 71
6.3. Voluntary versus Natural Agency......Page 72
6.4. “Lower than the Angels”?......Page 73
6.6. Supreme Enjoyment......Page 75
6.7.1. Impeccability, an Enemy of Autonomy?......Page 76
6.8. Infinite Knowledge......Page 79
6.9. “Occasional” Defects......Page 86
6.9.1. Voluntary Mortality?......Page 87
6.9.2. Sorrows like Ours?......Page 88
7.1. Righteous Wrath......Page 91
7.2. Alien Imputation......Page 92
7.3. Coincidence of Opposites......Page 93
7.4. Sighs of Dereliction......Page 94
VIII. Concluding Observations......Page 95
Notes......Page 101
The Aquinas Lectures......Page 115
About the Aquinas Lecture Series......Page 120