Thesis--Copenhagen. / Errata: p. [316]. Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-311).

Thesis (MA(Church History))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-132).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1933. / At head of title: The Catholic University of America. Biographical note. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: p. 107-110.

The following pages are the result of investigations in the field of Medieval Politics.

Descartes and the followers of his new mechanistic physics were subject to condemnation as a result of a reaction against his philosophy on the basis that it could not adequately explain the miracle of the Eucharist. Descartes, however, firmly believed that he could give an explanation of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist which was not only consistent with his physics and metaphysics, but which was also consistent with the orthodoxy demanded by the Church. His explanation exploited the ambiguity of the language adopted by the Council of Trent, yet rejected the Aristotelian philosophy traditionally relied upon to explain the miracle. Descartes' explanation of transubstantiation remained provocative to his scholastic contemporaries not because it was internally inconsistent, but rather because Descartes attempted to overthrow the whole of traditional philosophy. Descartes' confidence in his own explanation of the sacred rite ultimately obscured the long and troubled history of the issue from him, leading him to believe that he could win converts to his philosophy by publishing his own theory of the Eucharist. Consequent to this excursion into theology, Descartes' philosophy came under fire and was condemned in part because it could not give a traditional explanation of the Eucharist. / Master of Arts

À partir du constat de l'importance de l'argumentation scripturaire dans le discours du mépris du savoir mondain au Moyen âge et de la récurrence des versets employés, compte tenu de la dynamique intertextuelle ouvrant la citation sur sa tradition interprétative, notre thèse a pour but d'éclairer la signification de ce discours à travers le prisme exégétique. L'étude des commentaires bibliques médiévaux d'un corpus significatif, mettant en lumière pour chaque verset les perspectives de lecture retenues et les développements sémantiques opérés, permet alors une exploitation thématique transversale, caractérisant l’objet et la justification du mépris en question, dont la compréhension des différentes manifestations s'appuie ainsi sur l’apport du savoir sacré. Le recours à l’exégèse, inscrivant dans une continuité l’effort d’élucidation de l’expression biblique de la limitation de l'entendement humain, de la vanité de la science, de la réprobation des sages et de l’éviction de la sagesse de la parole dans la folie de la croix, permet d’appréhender de manière privilégiée, au cœur d’une confiance paradoxale dans le langage, les ressorts de la critique médiévale du dévoiement du savoir dans sa réception de l’héritage patristique et dans son orientation vers la connaissance salvifique. / Aknowledging as a key feature the recurrence of biblical verses within the argumentation conveyed by the medieval contempt of secular learning, given that the use of Scripture in the Middle Ages implies intertextual developments through exegesis, we offer to the understanding of this contempt the light of the medieval biblical commentaries upon a selection of preponderant verses. From the examination of the hermeneutical choices and semantic associations regarding each verse, we are then allowed to extend its contribution to an overview of this medieval approach towards knowledge and of its explanatory topics. The issues of secular versus sacred erudition are therefore received in a meaningful confrontation. By taking medieval exegesis as a reading key, from its insertion within a collective and progressive work of interpretation of Scripture, we offer to read the critic of the errance of knowledge in the Middle Ages in its reception of the patristic problematics and through the anagogical paradigm ; the biblical themes of the deficiency of human understanding, of the paucity and vanity of knowledge, and of the condemnation of the wise and of the wisdom of words in the foolishness of the Cross are then read through the paradoxical expression of the reliability of language.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Divinity School, August 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Habilitationsschrift--Innsbruck. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]-xv).

Thèse--Universit́e de Paris. / "Appendice: André de Neufchâteau, dit 'Le docteur très ingénieux'": p. [225]-252. "Bibliographie": p. [221]-224. "Bibliographie de l'appendice": p. [253]-254.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2006. / Thesis directed by Joseph Wawrykow for the Department of Theology. "September 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 378-395).