The subtle doctor and the angelic doctor …

… Great Scot by Edward Feser | Articles | First Things. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Scotus is a philosopher’s philosopher and a theologian’s theologian. He is called the Subtle Doctor because of his predilection for fine conceptual distinctions and painstaking argumentation. This predilection can make his writings forbidding even for the professional. But this technical rigor by no means reflected mere pedantry. It illuminated rather than obfuscated, and plumbed depths ­unimagined by less penetrating minds.