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TreatiseontheContinuum(Tractatusdecontinuo).24Thetheologicalworksare
thecommentarytotheSentences,somequestionsofwhichareeditedby
KathrineTachauandJean-FrancoisJenest;25tothiscommentaryalso
belongsaquestiononfuturecontingents,whichiseditedasaseparate
work:OnFutureContingents(UtrumDeushabeatpraescientiamfuturorumcon-
tingentiumadutrumlibet).26ThemostfamousofBradwradine’stheological
works,printedin1618,is:InDefenseofGodAgainstthePelagiansandOn
thePowerofCauses,tohisFellowMertonians(DecausaDeicontraPelagiumetde
virtutecausarumadsuosMertonenses).27He-ashesays-startedtoelabo-
ratethisworkwhenhewasaphilosophystudent,28butthefnalversion
wascomposedin1344.BradwardineisalsoanauthorofthetreatiseDe
memoriaartificialiadquirenda(OnAcquiringaTrainedMemory).29
ItseemsthatmostofBradwardine’sphilosophicaltreatiseswere
composedasuaguide”oratextbookforstudents.Beyondanydoubts
24
Acriticaleditionin:J.E.Murdoch,uGeometryandtheContinuumintheFour-
teenthCentury:APhilosophicalAnalysesofThomasBradwardine’sTractatus
decontinuo(unpublishedPh.D.dissertation),MicroflmAnnHarbor,Harvard
University,1957.
25
SeeJ.-F.GenestandK.Tachau,LalecturedeThomasBradwardinesurlesSentences,
AHDLMA,57(1990),301-306.
26
AcriticaleditionbyJean-FrancoisGenest,LeDefuturiscontingentibusdeThomas
Bradwardine,uRecherchesAugustiniennesetPatristiques”,14(1979),pp.249-336.
27uThomaeBradwardiniArchiepiscopiOlimCantuariensisDecausaDeicontra
PelagiumetdevirtutecausarumadsuosMertonenses,libritres”,Operaetstu-
dioHenriciSavilli(...)Londini1618.
28ThomasBradwardine,DecausaDei…[in:]E.Jung,DeterminismandFreedomin
ThomasBradwardine)sView,[in:]uIfGodexistsłHumanfreedomandtheistic
thesis”,A.Stefańczyk,R.Majeran(eds),Lublin2019,p.247:uLater,yetbefore
Ihadbegunmystudyoftheology,providedwiththesewordsaswitharayof
graceandinpossessionofsomerepresentationoftruth,itappearedtomethat
IsawfromafarGod’sgraceprecedingastotimingandnatureallgoodmerito-
riousworks,namelythedesiredwillofGodwho,priorastotimeandnature,
willsthesalvationofadeservinghumanbeingandproduceshisdesertsinhim-
selfbeforethatmandoesithimself.JustasGodisPrimeMoverwithrespectto
allmotions,soIwasprovidedwithGod’sgracebeforeanyeffortofmine,for
whichIrenderHimmythanks.”
29ForDememoriaseeM.Carruthers(ed.),uJournalofMedievalLatin”2,(1992),
25-43;translationinM.Carruthers,uTheBookofMemory:AStudyofMem-
oryinMedievalCulture”,NewYork1990,pp.228-281;seealsoM.Carruthers,
J.Ziolkowski,TheMedievalCraftofMemory,[in:]uAnAntologyofTextsandPic-
tures”,M.Carruthers,J.Ziolkowski(eds),Philadelphia2002,pp.205-214.