John of Reading
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John of Reading (Template:Langx; c.1272–1346) was an English Franciscan theologian and scholastic philosopher. He was an early opponent of William of Ockham, and a follower of Duns Scotus.
Career
John of Reading was ordained subdeacon at Northampton on September 20, 1292. He was made deacon at Dunstable in 1294.[1]
He earned his doctorate of theology at University of Oxford by 1321.[2]Template:Rp Around 1320 while he was at Oxford, he wrote a commentary on the Sentences. He argued for the unity of science.[2]Template:Rp
In 1322 he moved to a teaching position at Avignon, then the seat of the Avignon Papacy.Template:Efn Reading is buried at Avignon.[3]
Notes
References
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- ↑ The Roles and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton. Ed. Rosalind M. T. Hill, v. 7 (Lincoln: J. W. Ruddock & Sons 1975) p. 31, 56.
- ↑ a b Livesey, Steven John. Theology and Science in the 14th Century: Three Questions on the Unity and Subalternation of the Sciences from John of Reading's Commentary on the Sentences. Introduction and Critical Edition. E.J. Brill, 1989.
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Bibliography
- Katherine H. Tachau, Optics, Epistemology and the Foundations of Semantics, 1250-1345 (1988) pp. 165–179