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Preface
Part I: Prolegomena
1. Christian Freedom and Its Traditions
Part II: Late Antiquity
2. Plotinus on Freedom as Generative Perfection
3. Augustine and the Gift of the Power to Choose
Part III: The Patristic Period
4. Perfectly Natural Freedom in Dionysius the Areopagite
5. Maximus the Confessor: Redeeming Choice
Part IV: The Early Middle Ages
6. St. Anselm: Just Freedom
7. Bernard of Clairvaux: Liberating Love
Part V: The High Middle Ages
8. Bonaventure on the Trinitarian Origin of Freedom
9. Thomas Aquinas: A Fruitful Reception of the Whole
Part VI: The Late Middle Ages
10. Godfrey of Fontaines: The Absolute Priority of Act
11. John Duns Scotus and the Radicalizing of Potency
Part VII: General Conclusion
12. The Givenness of Freedom
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