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    Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas
    Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas
    Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas
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    Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas

    By David B. Burrell C.S.C.

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    In Knowing the Unknowable God, David Burrell traces the intellectual intermingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions that made possible the medieval synthesis that served as the basis for Western theology. He shows how Aquinas's study of the Muslim philosopher Ibn-Sina and the Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides affected the disciplined use of language when speaking of divinity and influenced his doctrine of God.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Notre Dame Press
    Release dateJan 31, 1992
    ISBN9780268158996
    Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas
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    David B. Burrell C.S.C.

    David B. Burrell, C.S.C., was Theodore Hesburgh Emeritus Professor in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas (Notre Dame Press, 1986) and Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions (Notre Dame Press, 1993). He was director of the University's Jerusalem program, housed at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, until 2004.

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