Divine Power and Possibility in St. Peter Damian's De Divina Omnipotentia

by Irven Michael Resnick

1992 · BRILL

Contemporary critics have argued that medieval philosophers have transmitted a concept of divine omnipotence that is self-contradictory. This study of the first Latin treatise on omnipotence places it in its patristic and early medieval context and demonstrates that for Peter Damian divine omnipotence stands beyond contradictiion.