Duns Scotus - Wikipedia
WEBJohn 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.
John Duns Scotus - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBMay 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 …
Blessed John Duns Scotus | Biography, Works, Ordinatio, & Facts
WEBBlessed 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.
Scotus, John Duns | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBJohn 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 others in its subtlety.
Blessed John Duns Scotus | Franciscan Media
WEBNov 8, 2020 · Blessed John Duns Scotus was one of the most influential Franciscans in the worlds of philosophy and theology. He is probably best known for his defense of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Scotus served on the faculties of both Oxford University and the University of Paris.
The Internet Guide to Bl. John Duns Scotus - Franciscan Archive
WEBJohn 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.
John Duns Scotus | Encyclopedia.com
WEBMay 14, 2018 · DUNS SCOTUS, JOHN (c. 1266 – 1308), Franciscan philosopher and theologian, and founder of the school of Scotism. Born in Scotland and trained by his paternal uncle at the Franciscan friary at Dumfries, Scotland, Duns Scotus entered the Franciscan order at an early age and was ordained a priest.
Duns Scotus | Scottish Philosopher
WEBDuns Scotus was the author of several important theological and philosophical works. These include two monumental commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, one written in Oxford, the other in Paris, a short treatise on natural theology, and at least one commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics.
Duns Scotus, John (c. 1266–1308) | Encyclopedia.com
WEBAs with many of the medieval Schoolmen, little is known of the early life of John Duns, the Scot (or Scotus), a theologian and philosopher. From the record of his ordination to the priesthood by Bishop Oliver Sutton at Northampton on March 17, 1291, it is inferred that he was born early in 1266.
John Duns Scotus - New World Encyclopedia
WEBJohn Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – November 8, 1308) was one of the most important Franciscan theologians and the founder of Scotism, a special form of Scholasticism. He was a philosopher and logician, known as "Doctor Subtilis" because of his subtle merging of differing views.
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