{"product_id":"9780813227375","title":"Hagar's Vocation : Philosophy's Role in the Theology of Richard Fishacre, OP","description":"\u003cp\u003eGenesis 16 tells of Abraham conceiving Ishmael with his wife Sarai's servant Hagar. Dominican Friar Richard Fishacre (ca. 1200-1248) used this Biblical narrative to explore the relationship of the natural and Divine sciences. Fishacre believed that the theologian must first study the world, before he could be fruitful as a theologian. How do the natural sciences, in short, help us better understand the Scriptures?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFishacre, like his contemporaries Albert the Great (ca. 1200-1280) and Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) looked at ways that the newly-translated natural philosophy of Aristotle, with its empirical emphasis and a belief that knowledge begins in sense perception, could supplement the more otherworldly Neoplatonic approach to philosophy and the sciences inherited from St. Augustine. Hagar's Vocation is a collection of fifteen essays which focus on the contributions of Richard Fishacre, the first Dominican theologian at Oxford to have left a written legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe questions addressed by Fishacre include his arguments for God's existence, the multi-faceted problem of the human soul, the eternity of the world, the nature of light, the free choice of the will, angels and \"\"spiritual matter,\"\" interiority and self-knowledge, undoing the past and God's absolute power, the magical arts, and the role of philosophy in a theology of creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eR. James Long, the world's leading authority on Fishacre, in this volume promises to establish this hitherto little studied English friar as a major figure in the development of a learned or philosophically grounded theology that remains the great achievement of High Scholasticism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Catholic University of America Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52880632840503,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":378.98,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780813227375-1.jpg?v=1787472739","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780813227375","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}