Estructura y función de la Teología en Juan Duns Scoto
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The author maintains that two specific features denote Scotus' vision of theology: firstly, a sharp sense of the transcendence of divine truth, and secondly an equally sharp awareness of the limited and fragmentary character of human knowledge. This is what brings him: to describe theology as a kind of knowledge without a primary object of its own; to enter into polemics with both Thomas Aquinas and his presentation of theology as a subaltérnate science, as well as with Henry of Ghent and his ideas on theology as a kind of knowledge based on enlightenment that goes beyond the faith.
This understanding of theology, in the author's view, is what really sheds light on Scotus' thesis that theology is a practical science. The latter's position, he maintains, is not pragmatic and entertains no doubts regarding the gnoseological value of the faith, since it derives rather from a firm emphasis on the close union between truth and attractive (appetitibile) character of the divine Being.
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