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With a foreword by Diego Quaglioni This book attempts to determine the degree to which the modern fate of the Western legal tradition depends on one of the most long-standing debates of the Middle Ages, the distinction between potentia Dei absoluta and ordinata (God’s absolute and ordered power). The mediaeval investigation into God’s attributes was originally concerned with the problem of divine almightiness. It underwent a slow but steady displacement from the territory of theology to the fres

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Author

Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo; Diego Quaglioni

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004503700

Category

history

Subjects

Law, Legal Theory & Philosophy, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-16