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- In his early Lectura Oxoniensis, Duns Scotus insisted that theology is not a speculative but a practical science of God and that humankind’s ultimate goal is union with the divine Trinity through love.
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Blessed John Duns Scotus, influential Franciscan realist philosopher and Scholastic theologian who pioneered the classical defense of the doctrine that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was conceived without original sin (the Immaculate Conception). He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 20, 1993.
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May 31, 2001 · John Duns Scotus (1265/66–1308) was one of the most important and influential philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages. His brilliantly complex and nuanced thought, which earned him the nickname “the Subtle Doctor,” left a mark on discussions of such disparate topics as the semantics of religious language, the problem of universals ...
Sep 17, 2021 · The most important of the later followers of St. Francis, who developed his vision in his own unique theology was Blessed John Duns Scotus, who was beatified by Pope Saint John Paul II in 1993. As his name suggests he was a Scotsman whose family originally came from the town of Duns in the Scottish Borders a few decades after St Francis had died.
John Duns Scotus. This work of Bl. Scotus is an incisive philosophical examination of causality, and provides ample philosophic demonstration of the errors of Spencerian evolution. It is a must reading for all Catholic philosophers, theologians, and seminarians. English Text c/o EWTN Library. Latin: PDF c/o Gallica.
- The Immaculate Conception. Perhaps his lasting contribution to the faith and devotion of the Church is in the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. To be sure the Church had long believed that Mary had lived a sinless life.
- The Necessity of the Incarnation. Scotus believed the Incarnation was the greatest good God had done in the world—perhaps not the most original or controversial position.
- Divine Being as Infinity. Scotus contributed much to our understanding of God’s being. For Scotus, God was the wholly other and infinite. He challenged his students—then and now—to ponder what it really means to say that God is infinite.
- Will and intellect. While Aquinas privileged the intellect over the will, Scotus assigned primacy to the will, conventional wisdom holds. (There’s more to it, of course.)
Scotus: Knowledge of God. Any discussion of John Duns Scotus (1266—1308) on our knowledge of God has to be a discussion of Scotus’s thesis that we have concepts univocal to God and creatures. By this, Scotus means that some one idea can equally represent both God and other types of things.
He is chiefly known for his theology on the Absolute Kingship of Jesus Christ, the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and his philosophic refutation of evolution. A Table of Contents: The Birth and Childhood of Bl. John Duns Scotus. The Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Bl. John. Bl.
