Joachim of Fiore: Trinity, history and millenarianism
Cláudio REICHERT DO NASCIMENTO
Original title: Joaquim de Fiore: Trindade, história e milenarismo
Published in Mystic and Millenarianism in Middle Ages
Keywords: History, Joachim of Fiore, Millenarianism, Thomas Aquinas, Trinity.
The article shows the hermeneutic system developed by Joachim of Fiore to interpret the Scripture and History. The World's figure appears as a synthesis of this system and represents the general history (generalis historia), with regard to the Old and New Testaments, and the special histories (especiales historia). These histories have the relation between the biblical figures, present in both testaments, and the animals described in the prophet Ezekiel's vision. Finally, it makes reference to the criticism that Thomas Aquinas made to the doctrine of the abbot, since there would not be a new gospel that overlap with the new law in his opinion.
Quia nolunt dimittere credere pro credere, sed credere per intelligere: Ramon Llull and his Jewish Contemporaries
Harvey Hames
Published in Ramon Llull (1232-1316): the cooperation among different cultures and the inter-religious dialogue
Keywords: Art, Correlatives, Kabbalah, Ramon Llull, Sefirot, Solomon ibn Adret, Trinity, conversion, religious disputation.
Unlike most of his contemporaries, Ramon Llull understood the need of actually engaging with the beliefs of his Jewish and Muslim contemporaries, rather than just with their texts, if he wanted to attain their conversion to Christianity. Coming from the Iberian peninsula where new theologies like Kabbalah were gaining ground among the Jews, Llull harnessed its central tenets in order to convince the Jews, by "necessary reason", of the inherent truth of Christianity. This article discusses the intellectual milieau in which Llull developed his Art, shows how he intended it to be used, and brings a Jewish response by Solomon ibn Adret, leader of the Jewish community in Catalonia to the challenge posed by Llull.
The second level of St. Bonaventure’s Transcendent Aesthetics: Speculating the divine Trinity through the good
José María SALVADOR-GONZÁLEZ
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
Keywords: Christ, Contemplation, Good, St. Bonaventure, Theology, Trinity.
After pointing out that St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio conceives his Aesthetics as a free way to be able to ascend contemplatively towards God, this article seeks to explain the surprising and ingenious “arguments” (deeply imbued by faith) that this author proposes to base the second level of the “transcendent” stage of his peculiar Aesthetics. In the first four levels of his Aesthetics, Bonaventure establishes this initial ascent to God by considering the external beings of the material world as vestiges of the Creator (first and second levels), and then by examining our mind as an image of God, in which he can be seen reflected in a mirror (third and fourth levels). St. Bonaventure states that in the third stage of his Aesthetics (the "transcendent" stage), the human mind can look over itself to speculate on God in his essential property as the Supreme Being (fifth level) and in his personal properties as highest Good (sixth level). Our article focuses exclusively on the expression of this sixth level of Bonaventurian Aesthetics.
