The Mirror of Language: A Study in the Medieval Theory of Knowledge

May 12, 2022

By Marcia L. Colish (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) Early Christianity faced the problem of the human word versus Christ the Word. Could language accurately describe spiritual reality? The Mirror of Language brilliantly traces the development of one prominent theory of signs from Augustine through Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante. Their shared epistemology validated human language as … Continued