title: Meister Eckhart’s Non-standard Natural Theology
creator: Vinco, Roberto
subject: ddc-100
subject: 100 Philosophy
subject: ddc-230
subject: 230 Christian theology
description: In this paper, I discuss Meister Eckhart’s approach to natural theology and specifically to the question of God’s existence. I argue that, according to the Eckhartian position, God’s existence is not to be regarded as the result of an (a posteriori or a priori) inference, but as metaphysical self-evidence. This noninferential conception, based on a fundamental unity between natural theology and general metaphysics, constitutes an alternative to the standard Avicennian paradigm that lies at the heart of most of the natural-theological projects of the scholastic tradition.
publisher: De Gruyter
date: 2016
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/27533/1/nzsth-2016-0027.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00027533
identifier: https://doi.org/10.1515/nzsth-2016-0027
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-275332
identifier:   Vinco, Roberto  (2016) Meister Eckhart’s Non-standard Natural Theology.  Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 58 (4).  pp. 473-488.  ISSN 1612-9520 (Online-Ausg.), 0028-3517 (Druck-Ausg.)     
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language: eng