Duns Scotus on Disability: Teleology, Divine Willing, and Pure Nature
According to the so-called “religio-ethical” model of disability accepted in some sense by Aquinas, disability is fundamentally a punishment for wrongdoing. Duns Scotus rejects this view and holds that disability could simply have been part of God’s plan, and that its presence could have been explai...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
[2017]
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Theological studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 78, Issue: 1, Pages: 72-95 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Duns Scotus, John 1266-1308
/ Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Will of God
/ Human being
/ Nature
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KDB Roman Catholic Church NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | According to the so-called “religio-ethical” model of disability accepted in some sense by Aquinas, disability is fundamentally a punishment for wrongdoing. Duns Scotus rejects this view and holds that disability could simply have been part of God’s plan, and that its presence could have been explained simply by virtue of God’s finding beauty in some of the bodily configurations of the disabled. I conclude by showing how Scotus’s view relates to the so-called “social” model of disability. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-1304 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040563916682324 |