Duns Scotus

Zusatztext A broad, accessible introduction to the thought of John Duns Scotus that is both useful for the beginner and engaging to the specialist. . . . Cross succeeds in showing that Duns Scotus was a great thinker engaged in a wide variety of interesting ideas at a very high level of rational inquiry. The book will also prove useful for the broad context that it provides for the standard excerpts and typical references that constitute the usual brush with Scotus in university studies. Finally, even the specialist will appreciate the invitation to review in a short compass the variety of influential Scotistic doctrines that this short book manages to encircle. Klappentext The nature and content of the thought of Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308) remains largely unknown except by the expert. This book provides an accessible account of Scotus' theology! focusing both on what is distinctive in his thought! and on issues where his insights might prove to be of perennial value. Zusammenfassung The nature and content of the thought of Duns Scotus (c.1266-1308) remains largely unknown except by the expert. This book provides an accessible account of Scotus's theology! focusing both on what is distinctive in his thought! and on issues where his insights might prove to be of perennial value.

Product details

• Authors: Revd Richard Cross, Richard Cross, Richard (Tutorial Fellow in Theology Cross
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.1999
• EAN: 9780195125528
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512552-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Great Medieval Thinkers; Great Medieval Thinkers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day