St. Albert the Great's Theory of the Beatific Vision Book

Chapter 1	The Parisian Condemnation of 1241	1
	The Condemnation and its Sources	1
	Proponents of the Condemned Proposition	4
	An Immediately Subsequent Author: Richard of Fishacre	7
	Key Texts in Albert the Great on the Beatific Vision	10
Chapter 2	Quaestio de Visione Dei in Patria	13
	First Context: A Sketch of Albert's Life Prior to his Arrival in Paris	13
	Second Context: The Nature and Date of Quaestio de Visione Dei in Patria	15
	Key Text A	16
	Movement of Thought in Key Text A	20
	Comments	22
	Summary and Conclusions	31
Chapter 3	De Resurrectione	35
	Introduction	35
	First Context: An Visio Sit Dos	36
	Second Context: An Visio Sit Dos, ad sextum	41
	Third Context: Quid Sit Dos, solutio	43
	Key Text B: In quo differat haec visio ab aliis visionibus	47
	Movement of Thought	53
	Comments and Conclusion	54
Chapter 4	Commentary on Lombard's Sentences	59
	Introduction	59
	First Context: Lombard's Own Text	60
	Second Context: Quid sit claritatis animae	64
	Key Text C: Quid sit videre per speciem	66
	Comments	70
	Concluding Questions	71
Chapter 5	Summa Theologiae	73
	Albert's Summa Theologiae	73
	Introduction	73
	First Context	75
	Second Context	77
	Third Context	79
	Key Text D	81
	Movement of Thought	88
	Thomas Aquinas as a Contrast to Albert	93
	Introduction	94
	Context: Summa Contra Gentiles, I, ch. 53	95
	"Quomodo Deus Per Essentiam Videatur"	99
	Movement of Thought	105
	Thomas Aquinas on Truth	105
	Questions Revisited	109
Chapter 6	Retrospect	117
	Overview	117
Chapter 1	Introduction	118
Chapter 2	Key Text A	122
Chapter 3	Key Text B	125
Chapter 4	Key Text C	129
Chapter 5	Key Text D	132
	A Final Comparison: Albert and Bonaventure	137
	Introduction to Bonaventure	138
	First Context: The Journey of the Mind to God, "Prologue"	140
	Second Context: "On Contemplating God in His Vestiges in the Sense World"	143
	Bonaventure on the Beatific Vision	145
	Final Comparison	146
	Conclusion	148
	Bibliography	153