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divine essence. But just as the former could not be proved a priori, the latter also cannot be derived from North Face Outlet the highest metaphysical idea of the ens (Theorem. 1-4), but we raise ourselves to it by proceeding from th* vestigium and the imago of God. Our knowledge of the essence of God is therefore not intuitive, bat abstractive (Rep. Paris. Prol. qu. 2). The distinction in the human soul between the inteOectus, whose centre is the memory and the will, must, and that eminentrr. be found in the original ground of man, in God. Accordingly, in God, understanding and will must he distinguished, of which the former acts naturalitcr, tap latter libere; the former is the ground and sum of all necessity, the latter of all contingency, and therefore may be named the possibility of the contingent in God (Hep. Paris, ii, d. i, qv.S; ibid, i, d. 40). Inasmuch, now, as these two determinations (Bcstimmungen) gr=>.the North Face Jackets foundation of Duns's doctrine of the Trinity, since the Son, as Verbum, has his ground in the memoria per/ecta, the Holy Ghost, on the other hand, in the spiratio operated through the will {Rep. Parit. i, d. 18; Op. Oxon. i, d. 10 et al.), he does not hesitate to ascribe to the natural man such

capacity as that he ma/ know the Trinity (QuodL qu. 14). These intra-divine relations (notionalia) through which the three persons are, are the first deductions resulting from the essence of God, and are therefore to be derived from the known essent'uilibus (ibid. qu. 1). The case is otherwise with every relation of God Moncler Jackets ad extra. For, since all out of God proceeds from the divine will, and this cause acts conlingenter (Op. Oxon. i, d. 39), it can by no means be proved that anything out of God must exist, and that it must exist as it is. Truly his own being does God know and will of necessity; all else is only secundaria volitum (Rep. Parit. i, d. 17). That God might have created all things other than he has, or that he might do all things otherwise than he does, cannot be proved a logical impossibility, an incompassibilitas contrariorum; we can therefore only say, in the course of the established order chosen by God, this or that will or will not happen (Rep. Paris, iv, d. 49, qu. 11). Such an established order, limits Moncler Outlet which God has voluntarily fixed for himself, is postulated by Duns, because he distinguishes creation and preservation, i. e. bringing out of nothing into being, and out of being into being, as two essentially distinct relations of God to things, or, rather, of things (Quodl. qu. 12) to God. (Op. Oxon. i, d. 30 qu 2.) But

it must never be forgotten that the ground why this particular order was established is to be found purely in the pleasure of God. Therefore, although it is true that God has created all things according to ideas Cheap Ugg Boots which preceded the things in his intelligence, yet these archetypal forms have by no means determined his creating; least of all has he chosen any one form because it was the better. Rather it is only the better for the very reason that God has chosen it (Op. Oxon. ii, d. 19). There is, therefore, a scientific knowledge of the Trinity; of the creation there is none. It is with the incarnation precisely as it is with the creation. Had God willed, we might have become stone; there is no more impossibility in that than there was in his becoming man. Precisely the same is true of redemption through the death of Christ. A proof of the necessity of this is not possible. It is simply the pleasure of God that the death of the Ugg Boots For Cheap guiltless one should become the ransom for the guilty (Op. Oxon. iii, d. 7, qu. 1; d. 20; iv, d. 16). (Around this point revolve the controversies of the Scotists and Thomists