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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 ...
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John Duns Scotus (1266–1308) John Duns Scotus, along with Bonaventure, Aquinas , and Ockham , is one of the four great philosophers of High Scholasticism. His work is encyclopedic in scope, yet so detailed and nuanced that he earned the epithet “Subtle Doctor,” and no less a thinker than Ockham would praise his judgment as excelling all ...
John Duns Scotus OFM (/ ˈ s k oʊ t ə s / SKOH-təs; Ecclesiastical Latin: [duns ˈskɔtus], "Duns the Scot"; c. 1265/66 – 8 November 1308) was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian.
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 14, 2018 · Duns Scotus, John (c.1265–1308), Scottish theologian and scholar. A profoundly influential figure in the Middle Ages , he was the first major theologian to defend the theory of the Immaculate Conception , and opposed St Thomas Aquinas in arguing that faith was a matter of will rather than something dependent on logical proofs.
Introduction. John Duns Scotus (b. c . 1265/1266–d. 1308) was a major medieval philosopher and theologian whose brilliance and originality is difficult to overstate. Many of his views on metaphysics, ethics, the theory of cognition, and philosophical theology were both groundbreaking and controversial.
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.