Duns Scotus on divine love : texts and commentary on goodness and freedom, God and humans / edited by A. Vos ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266-1308.

Contributor:

Vos, A. (Antonie)

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Selections. English & Latin. 2003

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Theology, Doctrinal.

Love--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Love.

Free will and determinism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

x, 235 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2003.

Contents:

1 Necessity and contingency in scientific theology 13

Text (A) Lectura, Prologus, Pars 3 [section] 107-121 - Is theology a science? 14

Text (B) Lectura, Prologus, Pars 4 [section] 172 - The object of theology 22

Commentary: Theology as a science 24

Introduction: science and its criteria 24

Theology as a practical science 25

Aristotle's criteria and Duns' distinction between three kinds of theology 27

True science? Act and object of knowledge 29

The subject of theology 32

Implicative necessity as a source of science 35

Subordinating or subordinate? 37

2 Necessity and contingency in theological ethics 41

Text (A) Ordinatio III 28 - Love of God and neighbor 42

Commentary: Love of God and neighbor 54

Introduction: love 54

1 The ethics of Scotus 54

2 Are Duns Scotus' ethics voluntaristic? The example of Williams 58

3 Loving God and loving our neighbor 64

4 A clarification 70

5 Who is my neighbor? 74

Text (B) Ordinatio III 29 - Love of God and self 78

Commentary: Love of God and self 82

Introduction: self-love 82

Self-love as a reflective act 82

Self-love as a kind of neighbor-love 83

Proper self-love 84

Nature and grace: loving me and my neighbor in God 85

3 The act of love and eternal life 89

Text: Lectura I 17, [section] 69-103 - On the disposition of love 90

Commentary: The act of love and eternal life 108

Introduction: merit 108

2 The analysis of the meritorious act 112

3 Voluntarism and the necessity of love 119

4 Scotian sense and some modern sensibilities 125

4 Divine election and merit 131

Text (A) Lectura I 40 - Can an elect be condemned? 132

Introduction: human fixation or divine failure? 138

Freedom on two sides 139

The logic of the divided and composite sense 140

Is the past necessary? 142

Is God's will infallible? 144

Text (B) Lectura I 41 - Are election or reprobation deserved? 146

Commentary: Are election or reprobation deserved? 156

Introduction: merit and election 156

Four positions discussed 157

Scotus' personal position 160

Election, acceptance and free will 162

5 The goodness of God's will vindicated 165

Text (A) Ordinatio I 46 - Is God's will always fulfilled? 166

Commentary: Is God's will always fulfilled? 170

Introduction: God's will and human reality 170

The fulfilment of God's will 170

Election between intention and execution 172

Text (B) Ordinatio I 47 - Is divine permission an act of will? 178

Commentary: God's permission 184

Introduction: permission 184

Two kinds of positive acts of will 184

Negation of an act of will, reflective act 187

Defining permission 188

Permission and reprobation: the example of Judas 189

6 An infinite act of love 193

Text: Lectura I 10 - Is the Holy Spirit produced by an act of will? 194

Commentary: An infinite act of love 208

Introduction: Love of God 208

1 One God, two processions, three 'personae' 208

2 Contingency, necessity and infinity 211

3 Infinite love 216

4 Scotus' argument and modern issues 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0754635902

OCLC:

50982231