Simon Oliver
Biographic Data
| ID | 4499720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Oliver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliver |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Theology and Religion Durham University Abbey House, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RS UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Theology, Science and an Alternative Modernity
John Milbank's Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (second edition, 2006) established a new theological attitude to interdisciplinary engagement. Rather than approaching social theory on supposed neutral terrain, or terrain established by the contestable historical and metaphysical framework of the social sciences, Milbank offered a theology of social theory and a provocative reading of its secularist outlook not as the absence of t…
Philosophy, God and Motion
In the post-Newtonian world motion is assumed to be a simple category which relates to the locomotion of bodies in space, and is usually associated only with physics. This book shows this to be a relatively recent understanding of motion and that prior to the scientific revolution motion was a broader and more mysterious category, applying to moral as well as physical movements. Simon Oliver presents fresh interpretations of key figures in the hi…
The Sweet Delight of Virtue and Grace in Aquinas's Ethics
This article examines the way in which Aquinas deploys the physics of motion throughout his theological corpus, and particularly in his understanding of virtue and grace. By pointing to analogies between the motion of bodies to their requisite ends in nature and the motion of human beings towards God, Aquinas deploys an aspect of natural philosophy gleaned from Aristotle and Neoplatonic sources to clarify the teachings of sacra doctrina. He discu…
Philosophy, God and Motion
Robert Grosseteste on Light, Truth and Experimentum
ion made possible by the emanation of species due to the dynamism of light which constitutes the more or less rarefied sensible elements of fire, air, water and earth, was to yield universal principles of nature, what Grosseteste called universalia complexa experimentalia. , 'complex experimental universais'. 50 Grosseteste, Hexaemeron , VII. 14.1: Est autem exterior vis susceptiva et apprehensiva sensibilium specierum sine materia. 51 Grossetest…
Motion According to Aquinas and Newton
This article seeks to examine the theological basis of the understanding of motion in the work of Aquinas and Newton. As well as the Aristotelian roots of Aquina's view, attention is also paid to motion understood as a participation in the perfect ‘motionless motion’ of the emanation of the Son from the Father. This is contrasted with the crucial theological context of Newton's view of motion as expressed in the Principia , namely his Arianism an…
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Motion According to Aquinas and Newton
This article seeks to examine the theological basis of the understanding of motion in the work of Aquinas and Newton. As well as the Aristotelian roots of Aquina's view, attention is also paid to motion understood as a participation in the perfect ‘motionless motion’ of the emanation of the Son from the Father. This is contrasted with the crucial theological context of Newton's view of motion as expressed in the Principia , namely his Arianism an…
Robert Grosseteste on Light, Truth and Experimentum
ion made possible by the emanation of species due to the dynamism of light which constitutes the more or less rarefied sensible elements of fire, air, water and earth, was to yield universal principles of nature, what Grosseteste called universalia complexa experimentalia. , 'complex experimental universais'. 50 Grosseteste, Hexaemeron , VII. 14.1: Est autem exterior vis susceptiva et apprehensiva sensibilium specierum sine materia. 51 Grossetest…
The Sweet Delight of Virtue and Grace in Aquinas's Ethics
This article examines the way in which Aquinas deploys the physics of motion throughout his theological corpus, and particularly in his understanding of virtue and grace. By pointing to analogies between the motion of bodies to their requisite ends in nature and the motion of human beings towards God, Aquinas deploys an aspect of natural philosophy gleaned from Aristotle and Neoplatonic sources to clarify the teachings of sacra doctrina. He discu…
Philosophy, God and Motion
Philosophy, God and Motion
In the post-Newtonian world motion is assumed to be a simple category which relates to the locomotion of bodies in space, and is usually associated only with physics. This book shows this to be a relatively recent understanding of motion and that prior to the scientific revolution motion was a broader and more mysterious category, applying to moral as well as physical movements. Simon Oliver presents fresh interpretations of key figures in the hi…
Theology, Science and an Alternative Modernity
John Milbank's Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (second edition, 2006) established a new theological attitude to interdisciplinary engagement. Rather than approaching social theory on supposed neutral terrain, or terrain established by the contestable historical and metaphysical framework of the social sciences, Milbank offered a theology of social theory and a provocative reading of its secularist outlook not as the absence of t…
Philosophy (5 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Classical mechanics (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · God (2 works) · Motion (2 works)