Scotism is the philosophical as living as theological system or school named after 13th century Scottish philosopher-theologian John Duns Scotus. the word comes from the produce of its originator, whose Opus Oxoniense was one of the near important documents in medieval philosophy & Roman Catholic theology, determine what would later be declared the Dogma of the Immaculate conception by Pope Pius IX in his constitution Ineffabilis Deus on 8 December 1854.
Jesuit philosophers & theologians adopted a series of the Scotist propositions. Later authorities reject in factor many of these propositions and another series of propositions was misunderstood even by Catholic theologians, and then in this false sense rightly rejected – e.g. the doctrine of the univocatio entis, of the acceptation of the merits of Christ and man, etc.
Numerous other propositions clear been accepted or at least favourably treated by a large number of Catholic scholars and amongst these are many propositions from psychology: e.g. that the powers of the soul are not merely accidents even natural and necessary of the soul, that they are not really distinct from the substance of the soul or from one another etc.
They also took from Scotism numerous propositions concerning the doctrine of the angels.