Lex Christianorum

T HE NOTION OF SYNDERESIS AS A SORT OF antechamber of conscience, the scintilla conscientiae or spark of conscience, has an interesting hist...

D UNS SCOTUS EXPLORES THE ISSUE OF HAPPINESS, and, in so doing, critiques the Aristotelian and Thomistic eudaimonistic doctrines. Scotus ask...

S COTUS DID NOT WRITE A POLITICAL TREATISE, nor did he comment on anyone's prior political work such as St. Thomas commented on Aristotl...

S COTUS ADDRESSES THE TOPIC OF DIVORCE and the Mosaic law in Ordinatio IV, dist. 33, q. 3. The specific proposition that he engages is whet...

I N OUR PRIOR POSTINGS (see here and here ) WE DISCUSSED the controversial position of Scotus on the Decalogue, namely that only the first t...

I N OUR LAST POSTING WE discussed the distinction that Scotus made between the two tables of the Ten Commandments or Decalogue. The first t...

T HE COMMON TEACHING OF MEDIEVAL THEOLOGIANS was that the Decalogue or Ten Commandments represented a synopsis or summary of the natural law...