Ordinatio

Introduction

In the medieval university every master of theology lectured on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, a twelfth-century collection of theological questions. The Ordinatio is the version of his Oxford lectures that Scotus revised for publication from around 1300; it was still unfinished at his death in 1308 and was completed by followers, long under the title “Opus Oxoniense”. It contains his proof of God as infinite being, his arguments for the univocity of being, the formal distinction and his account of individuation. The text is notoriously difficult. A critical edition by the Scotist Commission in Rome has been appearing since 1950.

Connections

Builds on

• The Book of Healing (Kitab al-Shifa)c. 1027 · Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Criticizes

• Summa theologiae1273 · Thomas Aquinas

Criticized in

• Summa logicaec. 1323 · William of Ockham