The Scholastic Model of Angelic Agency on the Corporeal World and the Condemnations of 1277

dc.creatorCarreño, Juan Eduardo
dc.date2023
dc.date.accessioned05-01-2026 18:06
dc.date.available05-01-2026 18:06
dc.description<p>The scholastic scheme that emerges during the thirteenth century to explain an gelic action on the corporeal world - according to which the separate substance can induce a variety of effects, all of them mediated by local movement - rests on a series of philosophical assumptions that go back to Aristotle’s Physics. As a result of the Condemnations of 1277, these assumptions are subjected to extensive revision in the following decades, but curiously, the thesis that the angel affects the supralu nar and/or sublunar bodies through local displacement continues until well into the seventeenth century. With modernity, this somewhat anomalous situation came to an end. In the new worldview, angels no longer seem to have a definite causal role, a fact that undoubtedly precedes the cultural and even theological marginalization of a reality that constitutes an integral part of the Christian faith. This article ex plores some aspects of this conceptual shift and the challenges it still poses today for those who want to develop a coherent explanation of angelic agency.</p>eng
dc.identifierhttps://investigadores.uandes.cl/en/publications/b0d07eaa-4c80-46f6-8fdc-a08ab94dcae2
dc.languageeng
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.sourcevol.34 (2023) p.281-310
dc.subjectángel
dc.subjectFilosofía medieval
dc.subjectAquino
dc.subjectAcción corporal
dc.titleThe Scholastic Model of Angelic Agency on the Corporeal World and the Condemnations of 1277eng
dc.typeArticleeng
dc.typeArtículospa
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