Ph.D., was awarded a national fellow-
ship that will significantly advance
philosophy and theology.
Department of Theology, won a one-year Na-
tional Endowment for the Humanities Fellow-
ship to continue his edition-translation of the
student report (version "A") of John Duns Sco-
tus' (1265-1308) Parisian Lectures on Peter
Lombard's Sentences, to be published by the
Franciscan Institute Press.
late Fr. Allan Wolter, O.F.M., a foremost North
American scholar of Duns Scotus. The project
was continued in the early 2000s by Bychkov,
first in his role as an assistant and collaborator
of Fr. Wolter, and after 2003 on his own.
tion of a Latin text (without a critical appara-
tus) and an English translation of Book One
(two volumes totaling some 2,500 pages, Fran-
ciscan Institute Publications, 2004 and 2008).
The next stage of the project, supported by the
NEH grant, is to edit and translate Book Four
of the Paris lecture course (of approximately
the same length as Book One), following the se-
quence of Scotus' lecturing in Paris.
nition of his scholarship," said Br. Edward
president for Franciscan
Mission and interim direc-
tor of the Franciscan Insti-
tute at St. Bonaventure.
Endowment's appreciation
of the contemporary signifi-
cance of the thought of
Book IV of the Sentences is of particular impor-
tance for understanding Scotus' vision of
human perfection, the larger context for under-
standing the significance of his ethical theory
and nature of human freedom in particular,"
said Coughlin.
who dedicated his life to retrieving and editing
the work of Scotus, would be deeply grateful to
Oleg for his ongoing effort to bring to comple-
tion yet another piece of his dream. Finally, the
publication of this work will mark another sig-
nificant moment in the Franciscan Institute's
storied contribution to medieval studies."
ticular of his Parisian lecture course, was re-
cently underscored by an international