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The Immaculate World: Predestination and Passibility in Contemporary Scotism
Author(s) -
Pomplun Trent
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/moth.12115
Subject(s) - predestination , philosophy , flesh , doctrine , theology , counterfactual thinking , epistemology , literature , art , chemistry , food science
The F ranciscan theologian D uns S cotus (ca.1266–1308) taught the puzzling doctrine that had A dam not sinned, the totus Christus would have been immediately glorified. While the Scotist commentarial tradition developed this idea in several surprising ways, most twentieth‐century Scotists rejected it. This article uses a modern philosophy of counterfactual statements to evaluate the interpretive claims of F . X . P ancheri and J uniper C arol, two prominent twentieth‐century Scotists, and presents a new understanding of the traditional Scotist notion that had A dam not sinned, the Word would have become incarnate in impassible flesh.