Contents
Book One
Eleventh Distinction
Question 1: Whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son | Num. 1 |
I. To the Question | Num. 9 |
II. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 19 |
Question 2: Whether, if the Holy Spirit does not proceed from the Son, a real Distinction between him and the Son could stand. Num. 24 | |
I. On the Question itself | Num. 27 |
II. Response to the Question | |
A. Opinion of Others | Num. 35 |
B. Against the Opinion | Num. 39 |
III. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 49 |
IV. To the Reasons for the Opinion of Others on the Question Num. 51 |
Twelfth Distinction
Question One: Whether the Father and the Son inspirit the Holy Spirit insofar as they are altogether One or insofar as they are Distinct Num. 1 | |
I. Response to the Question | Num. 7 |
II. Whether the Father and the Son inspirit more by the Will insofar as it is One or insofar as it is Concordant | Num. 8 |
A. Opinion of Henry of Ghent | Num. 9 |
B. Against the Opinion of Henry | Num. 14 |
C. Scotus’ own Opinion | Num. 36 |
III. Whether the Father and the Son are one Inspiriter or two Inspiriters | Num. 42 |
IV. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 48 |
Question Two: Whether the Father and the Son uniformly inspirit the Holy Spirit | Num. 54 |
I. To the Question | Num. 60 |
II. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 63 |
Thirteenth Distinction
Single Question: Whether the Holy Spirit is generated, or whether the Production of the Holy Spirit is Generation or is Distinct from it | Num. 1 |
I. The Opinions of Others | Num. 7 |
A. First Opinion | Num. 8 |
B. Second Opinion | Num. 12 |
C. Third Opinion | Num. 16 |
D. Fourth Opinion | Num. 24 |
E. Fifth Opinion | Num. 27 |
F. Sixth Opinion | |
1. Exposition of the Opinion | Num. 30 |
2. Rejection of the Opinion | Num. 31 |
G. Seventh Opinion | Num. 43 |
II. Scotus’ own Opinion | Num. 77 |
III. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 82 |
Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Distinctions
Single Question: Whether any Person at all may send any Person at all | Num. 1 |
I. Opinion of Peter Lombard | Num. 5 |
II. To the Question | Num. 11 |
III. To the Reasons of Peter Lombard | Num. 13 |
IV. How the Opinion of Lombard might be Held | Num. 15 |
V. To the Arguments against the Opinion of Lombard | Num. 17 |
IV. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 20 |
Seventeenth Distinction First Part On the Habit of Charity
Question One: Whether it is necessary to posit a created Charity that formally inheres in a Nature capable of Beatification | Num. 1 |
Question Two: Whether it is necessary to posit in a Habit the idea of | |
Active Principle with respect to Act | Num. 6 |
I. To the Second Question | |
A. Five Ways of Giving a Solution are Expounded and Examined | |
1. First Way | Num. 21 |
2. Second Way | Num. 27 |
3. Third Way | Num. 32 |
4. Fourth Way | Num. 46 |
5. What one should think about the Four Ways | Num. 53 |
6. Fifth Way | Num. 55 |
B. Solution of the Question by Maintaining the Third Way | Num. 69 |
C. To the Arguments when Maintaining the Third Way | Num. 71 |
D. To the Principal Positive Arguments when Maintaining the Fourth Way | Num. 87 |
E. To the Arguments for the Fifth Way | |
II. To the First Question | Num. 92 |
A. The Opinion which is Attributed to Peter Lombard | Num. 101 |
1. Arguments for the Opinion attributed to Peter Lombard | Num. 102 |
2. Arguments against the Opinion attributed to Peter Lombard | Num. 113 |
B. Scotus’ own Response | Num. 125 |
1. Whether some Supernatural Habit needs to be Posited that gives Grace to a Nature Capable of being Beatified | Num. 126 |
2. Whether a Supernatural Habit giving it Grace has to be posited so that a Nature Capable of Beatification may be Beatified | Num. 160 |
3. About the Opinion of Peter Lombard | Num. 165 |
C. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 171 |
D. To the Arguments for the Opinion which is attributed to Peter Lombard | Num. 178 |
Appendix A
Seventeenth Distinction
Second Part
On the Manner of Increase in Charity
Question One: Whether the whole of pre-existing Charity is corrupted so that no Reality the same in Number remains in a greater and a lesser Charity | Num. 195 | |
I. Opinion of Godfrey of Fontaines | ||
A. Exposition of the Opinion | Num. 198 | |
B. Rejection of the Opinion | Num. 202 | |
II. To the Question | Num. 225 | |
III. To the Arguments | Num. 226 | |
Question Two: Whether that which is Positive in the Preexisting Charity, and which remains when there is Increase of Charity, is the whole Essence of the Intensified Charity | Num. 235 | |
I. Opinion of Others | Num. 241 | |
II. Scotus’ own Response to the Question | Num. 249 | |
III. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 250 |
[Eighteenth Distinction On Gift and the Holy Spirit as Gift Lacking in the Ordinatio]
Nineteenth Distinction
Question One: Whether the Divine Persons are Equal in Magnitude | Num. 1 |
I. To the Question | Num. 5 |
A. About Equality Taken Properly | Num. 6 |
B. About Equality Taken Generally | Num. 8 |
C. How there is Equality in the Proposed Case | Num. 10 |
D. About Equality in the Divine Persons | Num. 11 |
II. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 18 |
Question Two: Whether each Person is in the other Person | Num. 29 |
I. To the Question | Num. 37 |
A. About the Mode in which a Person is in a Person | |
1. The Opinion of Henry of Ghent | Num. 38 |
2. Scotus’ own Opinion | Num. 50 |
3. To the Arguments for the Opinion of Henry | Num. 55 |
B. What the Idea is of the Being in of the Divine Persons | Num. 58 |
C. There is no Like Example in Creatures for the Being in of the Divine Persons | Num. 63 |
II. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 68 |
Twentieth Distinction
Single Question: Whether the Three Persons are Equal in Power | Num. 1 |
I. To the Question | |
A. Determination of the Question | Num. 11 |
B. Opinion of Others | Num. 16 |
C. Scotus’ own Opinion | Num. 24 |
II. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 35 |
Twenty First Distinction
Single Question: Whether this Proposition is true, ‘Only the Father is God’ | Num. 1 |
I. To the Question | Num. 7 |
II. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 14 |
Twenty Second Distinction
Single Question: Whether God is Nameable by us with some Name signifying the Divine Essence in itself, as it is a ‘This’ | Num. 1 |
I. The Opinion of Others | Num. 2 |
II. Scotus’ own Response | Num. 4 |
Appendix A
Twenty Third Distinction
Single Question: Whether Person, according as it says Something Common to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, says precisely Something of Second Intention | Num. 1 |
I. Opinion of Others | Num. 4 |
II. Scotus’ own Response | Num. 15 |
Twenty Fourth Distinction
Single Question: Whether Number properly exists in Divine Reality Num. 1 |
Twenty Fifth Distinction
Single Question: Whether Person in Divine Reality states Substance or Relation | Num. 1 |
I. Response to the Question | Num. 3 |
II. The Objections of Others | Num. 8 |