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In Divine Lighting, Schumacher offers an original method of Augustine's theory of divine brightness, the precondition of most human being knowledge. Written with great originality and quality, she traces the theory through middle ages thinkers, into early modernity, and uncovers its importance in modern ideas of knowledge.
- Takes an original method of reading Augustine's theory of divine brightness and shows how the theory was transformed and reinterpreted in middle ages philosophy and theology
- Presents a groundbreaking way of thinking about the writings of Augustine, Anselm, Bonaventure, Aquinas, and John Duns Scotus, and relates this to cutting-edge questions in contemporary philosophy of religious beliefs, especially epistemology
- Is a significant contribution to the history of philosophy but also to contemporary debates on faith and reason
- Lays the building blocks for future initiatives to come to terms with the contemporary epistemological situation and its own inherent problems
