John Duns Scotus on Justification
By infused grace, mediated sacramentally
THE POSITION
Justification through infused grace in the ordained economy. He adds the doctrine of divine acceptation: what makes an act or a soul acceptable is God's free acceptance of it, so that absolutely speaking God could accept a soul without the created habit of grace, even though in the order he has established he does not.
WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONNo quotations. Scotus died in 1308 and the Latin is public domain, but the usable English translations are modern and in copyright, so these positions are paraphrased from standard scholarly accounts rather than reproduced.
2 OTHERS HOLD THIS
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Franciscan, the Subtle Doctor. Argued for the univocity of being and for a will free in its own right rather than moved by the intellect's judgment — the point where the Franciscan schools part from Aquinas.
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"John Duns Scotus on Justification", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/scotus/justification (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/scotus/justification).