The Golden Age of Scotism continued into the first decades of the 1700s and then declined. Social and political upheaval made it difficult for religious institutes to continue as before. Two trends we can identify here, continuing from the late 1600s, are producing instuments for teaching Scotism and greater openness to Thomist positions.

• Claude Frassen, O.F.M. Obs. (†1711), wrote Scotus academicus, which is considered one of the best presentations of Scotistic thought.
• Sébastien Dupasquier, O.F.M. Conv. (†1718), wrote Scotist textbooks of philosophy and theology that were reprinted into the nineteenth century.
• Carlos del Moral, O.F.M. Obs. (†1731), wrote an outstanding Mariological work that probes subtle questions.
• Girolamo of Montefortino, O.F.M. Ref. (†1738), arranged the doctrine of Scotus to match the structure of St. Thomas’s Summa theologica.
• Diego González Mateo, O.F.M. Obs. (†1762), wrote a six-volume Theologia scotica.
• François Henno, O.F.M. Rec. (fl. 1706–1713), wrote works of moral and dogmatic theology in which he sought to reconcile Thomism and Scotism