His incredible tri-part name, signaling his Scottish heritage (Scotus), and the village where he was born (Duns), is what would eventually lead to the very concept of a “dunce.” ...

During his general audience on July 7, Pope Benedict XVI resumed his catechesis on medieval Christian culture. He spoke about Blessed John Duns Scotus, a distinguished Franciscan theologian of the ...

This volume was a cooperative effort of European, American and Canadian scholars which was published to commemorate the occasion of the seventh centennial of the bith of John Duns Scotus. The names of ...

In 1483, Pope Sixtus IV addressed the controversy over the Immaculate Conception, and gave Duns Scotus’ conclusion in favor of the doctrine papal approval.

Duns Scotus and his school suggested the Incarnation was God’s underlying motive for Creation, not merely a correction to it.

The woods and grasses tumble like a sea: Their waters run after the dry shores Of the path made for my feet. And I open the book of Duns Scotus, To learn the reason for theology.

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Blessed John Duns Scotus was the Franciscan Friar who gave the theological explanation for the Immaculate Conception in the early 14th century. The motion picture tells the story of the life and ...

Duns in the Scottish Borders is the birthplace of both a once-mighty philosopher - and the dunce's hat. John Duns Scotus, the 13th Century philosopher who was born in Duns in the Scottish Borders.