Гервей Наталис и его полемика с ранними скотистами о формальностях и формальном различии в Боге

Galina V. Vdovina

doi:10.21638/spbu28.2020.302

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Galina V. Vdovina Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 12, Goncharnaya ul., Moscow, 109240, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2020.302

Abstract

The article is devoted to Hervaeus Natalis, also known as Hervaeus drom Nedellec, who was an outstanding theologian at the end of 13th — beginning of 14th centuries (c. 1260–1323). Brief biographical information about Hervaeus is provided and his importance for medieval thought is emphasized. The subject matter of the article is the consideration of a formal difference, or formal distinction in God. The introduction of this concept is usually associated with the name of Duns Scotus, and there is every reason for this: although Duns was not the inventor of formal distinction as such, it was he who put it at the heart of his trinitarian theology. The concept of formal difference is inextricably linked to the concept of formalities, which in this context mean those ontological subunits in a concrete single essence between which there is a formal difference. The basic impetus to the introduction of both concepts was the necessity for rational expression of distinction between common divine nature and those relations by which Persons are constituted (relations of fatherhood, sonship, etc.), and also between different divine attributes. The task was, on the one hand, not to destroy the absolute real unity in God, and, on the other hand to explain certain differences that exist in him before any act of intellect, even divine intellect. Therefore, the notion of formality as a correlate “from the nature of the thing”, which corresponds to any attribute or relation, is conceivable in a separate concept.

Keywords:

Hervaeus Natalis, scholasticism, trinitarian theology, formality, formal distinction, unity and identity, divine simplicity

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