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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus

, 2015
The Early Mediaeval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus shook traditional doctrines of logical universality and logical particularity by arguing for a metaphysics of ‘formal distinction’.
John Llewelyn
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Rethinking Merit in Calvin's Doctrine of the Atonement: Beyond Possessive Individualism

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Joan Lockwood O'Donovan argues that the Reformation doctrine of grace entails a rejection of the proprietary anthropology of self‐owning individuals and its attendant notion of justice – what C. B. Macpherson termed the “theory of possessive individualism.” Although O'Donovan praises Calvin's anthropology and his account of law for its non ...
John Walker
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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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Duns Scotus and Peirce on the importance of Universais and Scientific Realism

Escritos, 2020
By offering a historical overview of the problem of universals and by focusing in the contributions of the medieval philosopher John Duns Scotus and the founder of American Pragmatism, Charles Peirce, the article introduces Peirce's insight on the ...
Paniel Reyes Cárdenas
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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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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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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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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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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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