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There are 10 critical essays on Duns Scotus.
Critical Essays on Duns Scotus

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Critical Essay by Richard Cross
13,775 words, approx. 46 pages
 In the following essay, Cross analyzes and rejects Scotus's assertion “that God has libertarian freedom with regard to all his actions,” contending that such a claim creates an ethical contradiction between God's contingent action and the premise that God always acts in accordance with right reason.
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Critical Essay by John Boler
12,838 words, approx. 43 pages
 In the following essay, Boler concentrates on Scotus's moral theory of dual affectiones (basic inclinations toward happiness and justice) and the relationship of this duality to the philosopher's understanding of the underlying unity of will.
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Critical Essay by David Burr
12,261 words, approx. 41 pages
 In the following essay, Burr studies the reasoning and conclusions of Scotus on the subject of the Transubstantiation of Christ, comparing his arguments with those of St. Thomas Aquinas and subsequent Scotist theologians.
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Critical Essay by Allan B. Wolter
11,128 words, approx. 37 pages
 In the following essay, Wolter recounts the twentieth-century editorial history of Scotus's collected works.
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Critical Essay by William Lane Craig
9,689 words, approx. 32 pages
 In the following essay, Craig explicates Scotus's view of the infallibility of divine foreknowledge, together with his proposition that such foreknowledge does not imply total determinism or a lack of future contingency.
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Critical Essay by Stephen D. Dumont
9,500 words, approx. 32 pages
 In the following essay, Dumont probes the distinction between two types of thought—intuitive and abstractive cognition—within Scotus's definition of theology as a true science rather than simply the product of faith and beatific vision.
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Critical Essay by William A. Frank
9,241 words, approx. 31 pages
 In the following essay, Frank analyzes the conjunction of freedom and necessity in Scotus's understanding of divine will.
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Critical Essay by Stephen D. Dumont
7,516 words, approx. 25 pages
 In the following essay, Dumont considers Scotus's contention that theology is a science in a verifiable, Aristotelian sense, and contrasts this view with William of Ockham's repudiation of Scotus's argument.
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Critical Essay by Allan B. Wolter
5,654 words, approx. 19 pages
 In the following essay, Wolter illuminates a principal element of Scotus's mature metaphysical theory regarding divine knowledge of the potential and the actual.

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