The texts edited in this volume deal with angelology and
anthropology, and particularly with the nature and the functions of
immaterial substances like angels and the human rational soul.
Marchia discusses such controversial issues as whether angels and
the rational soul are composed of both matter and form, the
immortality of the soul, and the nature and the object of the
intellect and will, as well as the functionality of the angelic
intellect whether angels understand through discursive reasoning,
and how they can speak with each other.
The problematic nature of the relationship between the material
and the immaterial is approached through asking whether an angel
can produce a material object and whether a material object can be
the source of an angel's understanding of that object. A
particularly interesting treatment concerns how angels, immaterial
substances, can be in a place; this treatment includes Marchia's
attempt to provide a physical theory explaining why an angel cannot
move over some distance instantaneously.
Marchia challenges the ideas of some of the best minds of the
later Middle Ages, not only major figures of the thirteenth century
like Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, Henry of Ghent, and Giles of Rome
but also fourteenth-century authors like John Duns Scotus, Hervaeus
Natalis, Walter Burley, and Peter Auriol."
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