The light of Thy countenance : science and knowledge of God in the thirteenth century. Vol. 1 + 2. Studies in the history of Christian thought ; Vol. 98. /A doctrine of divine illumination / God at the core of cognition.. This item is unavailable.The light of Thy countenance : science and knowledge of God in the thirteenth century. Vol. 1 + 2. Studies in the history of Christian thought ; Vol. 98. /A doctrine of divine illumination / God at the core of cognition.

This book is about the development of scholastic argumentation in thirteenth-century Europe. It traces the rise of a formal model of science and resulting accommodations in traditional attitudes towards human cognition, especially with regard to the role of divine illumination.
Investigated are ten theologians from Robert Grosseteste to Duns Scotus, all commonly associated with a so-called Augustinian current. The analysis focuses on theory of knowledge and of mind, relating both to the account of human understanding of divinity in the world.
Of interest to historians of medieval culture and historians of science, the book lays bare the intellectual transformations ultimately setting the stage for the emergence of modern science. It furthermore advances a novel argument about the reality of "Augustinianism" and "Aristotelianism" in high-medieval thought. All volumes of the print edition are available in individual e-books: 9789004531444 (volume 1) - 9789004531451 (volume 2).

Steven P. Marrone, Ph.D. (1978) in History, Harvard University, is Professor of History at Tufts University. Publications include William of Auvergne and Robert Grosseteste (Princeton, 1983) and Truth and Scientific Knowledge in the Thought of Henry of Ghent (Medieval Academy of America, 1985).