Vitaly Ivanov. The Question on the intensive Infinity in the Trinity by John Duns Scotus within the Tradition of the theological Quodlibetal questions. An Introduction. Vol. 3. No. 2. 2018

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The Question on the intensive Infinity in the Trinity by John Duns Scotus within the Tradition of the theological Quodlibetal questions. An Introduction
Title in the language of publication: Вопрос Дунса Скота об интенсивной бесконечности в Троице в контексте истории жанра теологических вопросов Quodlibet. Предисловие к переводу
Author:
Vitaliy Ivanov
Research Fellow at the Research and Education Center for Religion, Philosophy, and Culture Studies at St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Associate Research Fellow at the Sociological institute of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Address: 67A Bolshaya Morskaia str., Saint-Petersburg, 190000, Russia.
Issue:
P. 189–225.
Language: Russian
Document type: Research Article (introdaction)
 

Abstract

The article is an introduction to the translation of the V. Quodlibetal question by the Franciscan theologian John Duns Scotus, containing disputation of the topic of intensive infinity in the Trinity (the issue of whether the relation of origin [within the divine] is formally infinite). It explains the structure of the university disputation de quolibet, describes the history of the theological genre Quodlibet in the Middle Ages and situates the Quodlibetal questions of Duns Scotus within this history and his own academic career. Additionally, the main subject matters of the Scotus’s question on the intensive infinity in the divine are identified and the features of the present translation are specified. So far there is still no critical edition of complete text of Duns Scotus’ “Quodlibetal Questions” (or precisely of the Quaestion V) to satisfy the criteria of up to date philological and historical practise. The translation has been performed according to the modern edition of the Latin text prepared by F. Alluntis, O.F.M., in 1968 (Ioannis Duns Scoti Quaestiones Quodlibetales. — Juan Duns Escoto. Cuestiones Cuodlibetales. Ed. bilingüe, introducción, resúmenes y versión de F. Alluntis. Madrid: La Editorial Católica. P. 165–201) based on the text of Quodlibet contained in the XII volume of Opera Omnia of Duns Scotus, the classical edition carried out by the Roman Franciscan Collegium under the supervision of L. Wadding in 1639 and in separate manuscripts of the begining of the XIV century.

Keywords

The scholastic theology, the genre of the theological Quodlibetal questions, the inquiry on the intensive infinity in the Trinity, the theology of Duns Scotus, the history of the medieval university.

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