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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) [9] was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian.
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 ...
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.
Surnamed DOCTOR SUBTILIS, died 8 November, 1308; he was the founder and leader of the famous Scotist School, which had its chief representatives among the Franciscans. Of his antecedents and life very little is definitely known, as the contemporary sources are silent about him.
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 ...
This essay reconsiders Duns Scotus's life in light of recent advancements in textual criticism and the considerable amount of information about the medieval educational system that has become available in the last couple of decades.
Jan 1, 2020 · John Duns Scotus (1265/1266–1308) 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...
Duns 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.
Long recognized as one of the greatest medieval philosophical theologians, John Duns Scotus made his most innovative theoretical contributions in the area of me...
Dec 16, 2023 · Born in Duns, Scotland, in 1266, Duns Scotus was a Franciscan friar who taught in Oxford and died in 1308. Known as the “Subtle Doctor,” he was influential for Franciscan school of late Medieval philosophy and theology.
