MAJOR [or MAIR], John

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Second edition of the Scottish philosopher and theologian John Mair s commentaries on the fourth book of the Sentences of Peter Lombard. An earlier issue of Mair s commentary on the fourth book of the Sentences appeared in 1509, but a great deal of material appears here for the first time, including on on baptisms, the Eucharist (including the question: if you have a wet dream (in somno pollutus) should you be able to take the sacrament?), usury and financial contracts, confession, excommunication, indulgences, simony, marriage, and the question of whether Christians can use non-Christians as mercenaries against other Christians in war. Also newly added here are several questions on the sin of theft, including whether those who take another s property by theft (as opposed to stealing people or kidnapping, which was the strict biblical interpretation) are considered to have sinned at all. The answer may seem obvious, but Mair in the Quaestiones was frequently concerned with uniting divine law as revealed by God to mankind in the Decalogue, for example ( you shall not steal ) and natural law, i.e. a pre-existing, rational set of innate human laws. Mair believed that most of the laws in the Decalogue were in fact examples of natural law, even those that prescribed belief in God, whom mankind should naturally obey (see Sarah Mortimer, Reformation, Resistance, and Reason of State (Oxford, 2021), p. 54).. . ..Mair s argument that property was governed by both natural and divine law

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