Il De Praedestinatione di Tommaso Campanella e la questione dell’odium Dei nella tarda Scolastica spagnola [Tommaso Campanella's De Praedestinatione and the question of Otium Dei in late Spanish Scholasticism]

Abstract

With the publication in France in 1636 of De praedestinatione et reprobatione auxiliis divinae gratiae, Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) comes back to the themes of divine grace and predestination, which had already engaged him, especially in youth writings. Among the reasons for this choice, the need to maintain a high level of theological confrontation against representatives of Dominican orthodoxy, who had been the cause of his exile. Campanella carries on his personal battle, by criticizing one of the most daring and original theses of the Spanish Scholasticism, that’s Odium Dei, inserting it within the broader framework of his thought. From the pages of the work, the great originality of Stilese’s proposal on the topics dealt with emerges, which, however, will not prevent the Roman Inquisition from condemning the writing.

Keywords

• campanella
• álvarez
• odium dei
• predestination
• freewill
• philosophy
• history of philosophy
• europe
• theology
• medieval philosophy