Filosofía y teología en el s. XIII. Un caso de delimitación: la 'creatio ex nihilo' como 'credibilia' según Grosseteste

Abstract

The epistemological delimitation between philosophy and theology was one of the most interesting problems discussed in the Thirteenth Century. Discussions around the object of theology prove this. Among the authors in the first half of the two hundreds, Roberto Grosseteste shows a particular interest because he represents one of the last exponents of the monastic tradition, but already open to new problems. His -well founded- intuition of the incommensability of the philosophical and theological language takes him to postulate the «credibilia» as a proper kind of theological propositions, in opposition with the scibilia (demonstrables) of philosophy (or science, in the peripathetic sense). The first credibilia enunciated in the text revealed is the creation of nothingness, the importance of which lies in its (at least apparent) contradiction with the Aristotelian physics a model of rational knowledge. Grosseteste assumes in this case (and for all the credibilia) the need of a rational process demonstrating its «credibility» defined in terms of«probability».