Creation as Emanation: The Origin of Diversity in Albert the Great's 'On the Causes and the Procession of the Universe'. Publications in Medieval Studies, XXIX.

Lediglich sehr leicht klaffender Einband, sonst ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar / Only very slightly gappy binding, otherwise a very good and clean copy. - Contents A Note on Editions and Transliterations 1. Introduction 1.1. Responses to Emanation 1.2. Albert on the Nature of the Liber de causis 1.3. The Nature of Albert�s Paraphrase of the Liber de causis 1.4. Summary of the Liber de causis 1.5. A Doctrinal Problem 2. Emanation and Causation 3. God�s Incommunicability to Creatures 3.1. An Apparent Contradiction 3.2. Esse and Id Quod Est 3.3. The Interpretation of Liber de causis 19 3.4. Resolving the Contradiction 4. The First Created Thing 4.1. Ab Uno Non Nisi Unum 4.2. Prima Rerum Creatarum Est Esse; Esse Creatum Primum Est Intelligentia 4.2.1. The First Interpretation 4.2.1.1. Intelligentia 4.2.1.2. Esse 4.2.2. The Second Interpretation 4.3. Summary 5. Mediation in the Procession of Creatures 6. God�s Immediacy to the Procession of Creatures Afterword Notes Selected Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Persons Index of Texts. ISBN 9780268023515