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The Medieval Church · c. 1065–1067

On Divine Omnipotence

Peter Damian · c. 1007–1072

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What it is

Prompted by a dinner conversation: can God restore a woman's virginity, or undo the past? An argument that logical rules must not be allowed to bind God.

Why it lasted

The sharpest medieval statement of the suspicion that dialectic is a danger to faith, from a man who was very good at dialectic.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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