Ad mentem Enrici

seventeenth-century reception of Henry of Ghent's demonstration of the existence of God

Abstract

This article studies the reception in seventeenth-century Scholasticism of Henry of Ghent’s reflection on the existence of God. It analyses authors who explicitly declare themselves to be followers of Henry. This attests the existence of a seventeenth-century Henrician Scholasticism. The history of the reception of Henry’s reflection in this Henrician Scholasticis is, however, also the history of a non-reception of the a priori proof of God’s existence formulated by Henry himself.