Duns Scotus on divine love : texts and commentary on goodness and freedom, God and humans /
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| Author / Creator: | Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266-1308 |
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| Uniform title: | Works. Selections. English & Latin. 2003 |
| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003. |
| Description: | x, 235 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English Latin |
| Subject: | Theology, Doctrinal. Love -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Love -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Theology, Doctrinal. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4966454 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Aristotle's criteria and Duns' distinction between three kinds of theology
- True science? Act and object of knowledge
- The subject of theology
- Implicative necessity as a source of science
- Subordinating or subordinate?
- 2. Necessity and contingency in theological ethics
- Text (A). Ordinatio III 28 - Love of God and neighbor
- Commentary: Love of God and neighbor
- Introduction: love
- 1. The ethics of Scotus
- Acknowledgements
- 2. Are Duns Scotus' ethics voluntaristic? The example of Williams
- 3. Loving God and loving our neighbor
- 4. A clarification
- 5. Who is my neighbor?
- Text (B). Ordinatio III 29 - Love of God and self
- Commentary: Love of God and self
- Introduction: self-love
- Self-love as a reflective act
- Self-love as a kind of neighbor-love
- Proper self-love
- Introduction
- Nature and grace: loving me and my neighbor in God
- 3. The act of love and eternal life
- Text: Lectura I 17, [section] 69-103 - On the disposition of love
- Commentary: The act of love and eternal life
- Introduction: merit
- 1. The context of discussion
- 2. The analysis of the meritorious act
- 3. Voluntarism and the necessity of love
- 4. Scotian sense and some modern sensibilities
- 4. Divine election and merit
- 1. Necessity and contingency in scientific theology
- Text (A). Lectura I 40 - Can an elect be condemned?
- Commentary: Can an elect be condemned?
- Introduction: human fixation or divine failure?
- Freedom on two sides
- The logic of the divided and composite sense
- Is the past necessary?
- Is God's will infallible?
- Text (B). Lectura I 41 - Are election or reprobation deserved?
- Commentary: Are election or reprobation deserved?
- Introduction: merit and election
- Text (A). Lectura, Prologus, Pars 3 [section] 107-121 - Is theology a science?
- Four positions discussed
- Scotus' personal position
- Election, acceptance and free will
- 5. The goodness of God's will vindicated
- Text (A). Ordinatio I 46 - Is God's will always fulfilled?
- Commentary: Is God's will always fulfilled?
- Introduction: God's will and human reality
- The fulfilment of God's will
- Election between intention and execution
- Text (B). Ordinatio I 47 - Is divine permission an act of will?
- Text (B). Lectura, Prologus, Pars 4 [section] 172 - The object of theology
- Commentary: God's permission
- Introduction: permission
- Two kinds of positive acts of will
- Negation of an act of will, reflective act
- Defining permission
- Permission and reprobation: the example of Judas
- 6. An infinite act of love
- Text: Lectura I 10 - Is the Holy Spirit produced by an act of will?
- Commentary: An infinite act of love
- Introduction: Love of God
- Commentary: Theology as a science
- 1. One God, two processions, three 'personae'
- 2. Contingency, necessity and infinity
- 3. Infinite love
- 4. Scotus' argument and modern issues
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Introduction: science and its criteria
- Theology as a practical science