John Duns Scotus · Theology

The Primacy of Christ: Love Before the Fall

Scotus’s thesis that God willed the Incarnation independently of sin - Christ as the crown and first purpose of all creation, not merely its remedy - together with his celebrated defense of Mary’s Immaculate Conception, the argument that earned him the title Marian Doctor.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Scotus held Christ to be predestined ante praevisum lapsum (before the foreseen fall), so the Incarnation is creation’s crown rather than sin’s remedy, and that he defended the Immaculate Conception through the idea of ‘preservative redemption.’ Explain the primacy of Christ an…

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