John Duns Scotus on Authority of Scripture
Scripture with tradition and church teaching office
THE POSITION
Scripture together with the Fathers and the teaching of the Church. His Eucharistic argument is the clearest worked case: he grants that consubstantiation is not inconsistent with the words of Scripture and holds that it is ruled out by the authority of the Fathers and the Church's definition rather than by the text alone.
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.
8 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 Authority of Scripture", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/scotus/scripture-authority (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/scotus/scripture-authority).