The author's explicit aim is not to make a contribution to the history of ideas, but instead to present Ockham's thought about human capability as a viable resource for contemporary thought: in the face of contemporary phenomenon-driven religion, Chang proposes a better attitude toward human reason characterized by a return to medieval prudence as preferable to a strong charismatic connotation, as a contribution to "systematic theology" (14). This relationship is not considered as a general feature of Scholastic thought but a specific feature of Ockham's thought, different from Aquinas' or Duns Scotus' strategies. This approach to Ockham is characterized by a Protestant influence, stressing, under the notion of human capability, the crucial importance of a direct and personal relationship between man and God. A further revision of the typographic page would have been more visually comfortable for the reader, but the semantical message of the analysis by Sheng-Chia Chang is well expressed.
Goethe University at Frankfurt am Main, and is in fact, as the author stresses, the final version of the original dissertation. This book is a doctoral dissertation accepted by the Faculty of Protestant Theology of J.W.
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