The Seventy's Course in Theology, Third Year / The Doctrine of Deity

by B. H. Roberts

Footnotes

[1]. For a brief account of the Arian controversy which resulted in the formulation of this creed, see notes in Year Book II, Lesson xxxvii; also note 3, this Lesson.

LESSON XXVII.

(Scripture Reading Exercise.)

MEDIAEVAL CONCEPTIONS OF GOD.

ANALYSIS.	REFERENCES.
I. The Mediaeval Period and Schools of Thought.	The works cited in Lessons xxv and xxvi will be helpful in this Lesson under the topics of the analysis; and of course the authorities cited in the notes of this lesson.
II. Definitions.
III. Representative Doctors of the Various Schools of Thought: 1. Erigena, Extreme Realist. 2. Roscelina, of Compiegne, Extreme Nominalist. 3. Anselm, Realist. 4. Thomas Aquinas, Properly Neither Realist nor Nominalist, Scholastic. 5. Eckhart, Mystic.

SPECIAL TEXT: "And without controversy, great is the mystery of Godliness." I. Tim. iii, 16.