Filosofia e teologia nelle opere di Alano di Lilla: pluralità delle forme letterarie e unitarietà del sapere

Abstract

This research is aimed at clarifying the relationship between philosophy and theology in the works of Alan of Lille, who is termed by his contemporaries Doctor Universalis also because of his figure of unfailing polygraph who experimented greatly successfully multifarious literary genres, from summa to philosophic poem, from the theological axiomatic to the apologetics, from the theological dictionary to the biblical exegesis. Every literary form adopted by the master of Lilla is not to consider only as a different stylistic formality, but it is rather important of a precise method of investigation of the natural and supernatural reality. The plurality of the literary forms corresponding to a plurality of epistemological methods, in it different knowledge are involved, from the liberal arts to theological scientia... [edited by author]