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
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
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4966454
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Other authors / contributors:Vos, A. (Antonie)
ISBN:0754635902 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-231) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Necessity and contingency in scientific theology
  • Text (A). Lectura, Prologus, Pars 3 [section] 107-121 - Is theology a science?
  • Text (B). Lectura, Prologus, Pars 4 [section] 172 - The object of theology
  • Commentary: Theology as a science
  • Introduction: science and its criteria
  • Theology as a practical science
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 1. One God, two processions, three 'personae'
  • 2. Contingency, necessity and infinity
  • 3. Infinite love
  • 4. Scotus' argument and modern issues
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index