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The introduction of Aristotelianism into the West created conflict, disruption, and turmoil. Not least, it confronted the Middle Ages with a serious problem concerning the possible conflict between reason and faith. In part, the controversy surrounding Aristotelianism in the Christian world came from the Islamic channels through which much of the Aristotelian philosophical heritage came to the West. The great turning point of Christian thought, the point at which Christian intellectual history began to be dominated by Aristotelian patterns, began when Christian scholars were exposed not only to the philosophy of Aristotle, but also to the commentaries of Averroes. The names of Averroes and Aristotle became inextricably linked by the middle of the thirteenth century. A clear and careful analysis of the links between the thoughts of Averroes and Aristotle, an explication of the impact of Averroes' thought on Christian theology and on Aquinas in particular, this monograph is of crucial importance in the history of Christianity. It is emphatically apposite to the discussion of monistic and qualistic theological anthropologies. Further, the discussion throws light upon a topic which should be of much greater interest to scholars: the impact of Islam upon medieval Christian thought. Mohammed centres specifically upon Averroes' doctrine of immortality—a doctrine that posited immortality for man as a being entire, not merely for his soul.

Soul --- Immortality --- Philosophical anthropology --- History of doctrines --- History --- Averroës, --- -Philosophical anthropology --- -Soul --- -Pneuma --- Future life --- Theological anthropology --- Animism --- Spirit --- Anthropology, Philosophical --- Man (Philosophy) --- Civilization --- Life --- Ontology --- Humanism --- Persons --- Philosophy of mind --- Life after death --- Eschatology --- Immortalism --- -History --- -Philosophy --- Averroes --- -History of doctrines --- -Averroes --- Ibn Rochd --- Ibn Rušd al-Hafīd --- Ibn Rušd, Abū 'l-Walīd --- Muhammed Ibn Ahmad --- Pneuma --- Averroës, --- Abū al-Walīd ibn Rushd, --- Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd, --- Abū el-Walīd ibn Roshd, --- Abuʼl-Walid Muhammad bin Rusjd, --- Alṿalid ibn Rushd, --- Averroè, --- Averróis, --- Bin Rusjd, Muhammad bin Ahmad, --- Ibn-e-Rushd, --- Ibn-i Rushd, --- Ibn Rashad, --- Ibn Rochd, --- Ibn Roshd, Abū el-Walīd, --- Ibn Roshd, --- Ibn Ruschd, --- Ibn Rušd, --- Ibn Rushd, --- Ibn Rushd al-Ḥafīd, --- Ibn Rushd, Abū al-Walīd, --- Ibn Rushd, Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, --- Ibn Rushd, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad, --- Ibnu Rosjid, --- Ibnu Rusjd, --- ‏ابن رشد،‏ --- Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd, --- History. --- Soul - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Immortality - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Philosophical anthropology - History --- Averroës, - 1126-1198