title: Divine Paradoxes: A Finite View of an Infinite God
author:  Jon Tal Murphree 
description: New book, immaculate dust jacket. 1st edition. Only minor shelf wear.
zlib_text: Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006
  william e. mann
  7
  Duns Scotus on Natural
  and Supernatural Knowledge
  of God
  The Earnest Professor begins the lecture by announcing that today
  we are going to investigate what we can know about God. The Art-
  less Student immediately asks how it is possible that we finite minds
  can comprehend anything about the infinite. The Professor groans
  inwardly, resisting the temptation to retort by asking how the fi-
  nite mind of the Student is so certain that God is infinite, given the
  Student’s avowal of doubt about the adequacy of finite minds.
  Eager to maintain classroom civility, the Professor might congrat-
  ulate the Student on fastening on a question discussed at length by
  John Duns Scotus. It is a sign of the seriousness with which Scotus
  takes this and related issues that he tackles them immediately in the
  Ordinatio version of his monumental Commentary on the Sentences
  of Peter Lombard. The title of the first question in the Pr