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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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Sage Publ.
[2017]
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Theological studies
Année: 2017, Volume: 78, Numéro: 1, Pages: 72-95 |
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Jean, Duns Scotus 1266-1308
/ Thomas, von Aquin, Heiliger 1225-1274
/ Volonté de Dieu
/ Être humain
/ Nature
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Classifications IxTheo: | KAE Moyen Âge central KDB Église catholique romaine NBC Dieu NBE Anthropologie |
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Résumé: | 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 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Theological studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040563916682324 |