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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1. VerfasserIn: Cross, Richard 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Sage Publ. [2017]
In: Theological studies
Jahr: 2017, Band: 78, Heft: 1, Seiten: 72-95
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Johannes, Duns Scotus 1266-1308 / Thomas, von Aquin, Heiliger 1225-1274 / Wille Gottes / Mensch / Natur
IxTheo Notationen:KAE Kirchengeschichte 900-1300; Hochmittelalter
KDB Katholische Kirche
NBC Gotteslehre
NBE Anthropologie
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:2169-1304
Enthält:Enthalten in: Theological studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0040563916682324