Prochoros Cydones’ (ca. 1330-1369/71) translation (1368-1369/71) of select quaestiones from the Dominican Hervaeus Natalis’ (ca. 1250/60-1323) Commentary on the Sentences (1303/04; 1309) of Peter Lombard (original) (raw)
2021, THOMAS LATINUS - THOMAS GRAECUS Ο ΘΩΜΑΣ ΑΚΥΙΝΑΤΗΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΠΡΟΣΛΗΨΗ ΤΟΥ ΣΤΟ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΟ THOMAS AQUINAS AND HIS RECEPTION IN BYZANTIUM
Anti-Palamite Prochoros Kydones enlisted into his ranks of captains the Dominican Hervaeus Natalis (d. 1323) in order to combat Palamism. The themes of divine light, seeing it with the mind and eye, the status of such light, etc., were already under discussion and debate and suspicion of heresy in the Latin West in Avignon. Schoolmen were in the midst of debates on the possibility of the beatific vision during this life. There was good communication between Avignon and Cyprus prior to the Palamas-Barlaam controversy. Many of the ideas debated and the topics chosen - even by Palamas - coincide with contemporary Latin-Greek debates going on in the Greek East.
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