Abstract
John Ireland was the most distinguished theologian in Scotland since Duns Scotus. For the last dozen years of his life, Ireland turned away from the academic world, but not from theology. Two fundamental and related themes emerge with particular clarity and emphasis in a survey of Ireland's work. The first is the problem of predestination and of God's foreknowledge, and of the relation between these factors or forces and human freedom. The second lay in what he called auxilium speciale, ‘the singular and special help of god’ which was necessary to all merit and good works. The discussion also considers John Mair's stand on the relationship between dominium and ius or right, as well as other strictly political implications of his view. It is essential in his position that the universal church rightly claims the final authority.
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