The Controversy between al-Kindī and Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī on the Trinity, Part One: A Revival of the Controversy between Eunomius and the Cappadocian FathersOriensSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/KYRR5N23/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.CorneliaSchöckThe Controversy between al-Kindī and Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī on the Trinity, Part One: A Revival of the Controversy between Eunomius and the Cappadocian Fathershttp://syriaca.org/cbss/KYRR5N23https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/KYRR5N23https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/KYRR5N23Oriens40:120121-50This article deals with the reasoning of the neo-Arian Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Arabic philosopher al-Kindī against the consubstantiality (τὸ ὁµοούσιον) of God the Father and God the Son and of three divine hypostases respectively. I wish to make evident that al-Kindī attacks the doctrine of Eunomius’ main adversaries Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa as well as the doctrine of John Philoponus by taking up Aetius’ and Eunomius’ argument of the logical impossibility that the Ingenerate becomes generate. The philosophical and logico-semantic issue of dispute in the controversy is undistributed commonness versus distributed commonness (κοινωνία/cf. ʿumūm), in other words intension versus extension. An investigation of Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī’s counter-refutation is forthcoming in one of the next volumes of <i>Oriens</i>.
Schöck, Cornelia. “The Controversy between Al-Kindī and Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī on the Trinity, Part One: A Revival of the Controversy between Eunomius and the Cappadocian Fathers.” Oriens 40:1 (2012): 1–50.
Cornelia Schöck, The Controversy between Al-Kindī and Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī on the Trinity, Part One: A Revival of the Controversy between Eunomius and the Cappadocian Fathers,Oriens 40:1 (2012): 1–50.