William of Auxerre

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William of Auxerre

Roman Catholic Church
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The teacher by whom William was most influenced was Praepositinus, or Prevostin, of Cremona, Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1206 to 1209. The names of teacher and pupil are mentioned in the same sentence by Thomas Aquinas.[2]

He was an Archdeacon of

Gregory IX to examine Aristotle's writings on the natural sciences and to offer amendments where religiously necessary. Consequently, William was one of the first theologians to be influenced by Aristotle. His Summa Aurea shows a debt still to Peter Lombard, and it advances the ontological argument, but it also shows novelty and an intellectual awareness and insistence on the physical that had not been seen earlier. Summa Aurea influenced John of Treviso
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Notes

  1. ^ Guillaume d'Auxerre, Guillelmus Autissiodorensis, Wilhelm von Auxerre.
  2. ^ Haec est opinio Praepositini et Autissiodorensis (in I Sent., XV, q. 11).

External links

  • Magistri Guillelmi Autissiodorensis Summa de officiis ecclesiasticis, ed. Franz Fischer, Cologne 2007–2013, online:guillelmus.uni-koeln.de, .
  • The pluralistic approach – The first scholarly edition of William of Auxerre's treatise on liturgy
  • Works by William of Auxerre at Open Library Edit this at Wikidata
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainHerbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "William of Auxerre". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.