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Article: Johannes Duns Scotus.
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
- Author:
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Vos Jaczn, Antonie. Kerkhiistoritsche Monografieen. Leiden: J. J. Groen en Zoon, 1994. x + 284 pp.--In this monograph, Antonie Vos Jaczn surveys John Duns Scotus's theological thought, with an eye to its potential impact upon the future of Christian theology. His survey is constructed as a far ranging tour which ends, as it were, at its beginning. In chapters 1-2.1 he sketches in the societal, institutional, and biographical circumstances of Scotus's life and thought. In 2.2 he takes on the complex of problems inhering in the difficult and confused character of extant literary witnesses to his thought. In the process, he argues persuasively for the hermeneutical priority of ...