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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 242-266, July 2026.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
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Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics from a Scotistic Perspective

Religions, 2017
The article engages with Joseph Selling’s most recent publication Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics in which he invites theological ethicists to re-think the post-Tridentine development of theological ethics by noting its methodological deficiencies,
Nenad Polgar
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Suárez on the Contingency of Causal Origin

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 694-706, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Do individuals have their actual causal origins necessarily? Or could one and the same individual also have had a causal origin other than its actual one? Late medieval and early modern Aristotelians confront this question in the course of their discussions of the metaphysics of causation. In this paper, I discuss and evaluate Francisco Suárez'
Han Thomas Adriaenssen
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The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 166-189, April 2026.
Abstract In 2019, the Foundation of Christ's Hospital at Lincoln made a bequest of early printed books to the Bodleian Library. The collection is rich in sixteenth‐century tooled bindings, many of which preserve manuscript and printed waste in the form of pastedowns, endleaves and endleaf guards.
Tamara Atkin
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Epistemologické aspekty teológie podľa Jána Dunsa Scota (Epistemological Aspects of Theology according to John Duns Scotus)

Ostium, 2008
The paper’s aim is to explain the crucial epistemological aspects of theology according to John Duns Scotus. It gives a systematical and historical outlines of Scotus’s theology, exemplifies the Scotus’s extension of Aristotelian conception of scientific
Michal Chabada
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Thomas Aquinas on the Predestination of Christ

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 684-705, October 2025.
Abstract In this article, I examine the development of Thomas's doctrine of the predestination of Christ against the broader backdrop of thirteenth‐century scholasticism, highlighting its distinctively Christocentric character. Pauline texts (Eph. 1:4; Rom.
Joshua H. Lim
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At‐Least‐Potentially‐Non‐Contrastive Transcendence in Tanner's God and Creation in Christian Theology

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 592-601, October 2025.
Abstract Kathryn Tanner's God and Creation in Christian Theology is a foundational text in the expression of a 'non‐contrastive' Christian account of God and creation: that God is so fundamentally incommensurable with the world as not to be in a relation of contrast or competition, nor distant from it.
Andrew Davison
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Who is Christ? Thesoteriological necessity in the Christology of Francis Turretin

Acta Theologica
This article explores the theological question, “If man had not sinned, would Christ still be incarnate?”, by comparing the thought of John Duns Scotus and Francis Turretin.
S.R. Eliata
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Heidegger on the ontological significance of the principle of noncontradiction

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 372-386, September 2025.
Abstract The aim of this article is to break down to its principal arguments the abundant material recently published in Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe related to a conference given in December 1932 on the principle of noncontradiction (PNC). I will first highlight the importance in phenomenology of a correct interpretation of the PNC and then explain ...
François Jaran
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