John of Reading

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image

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

Template:Notelist

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

  1. The Roles and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton. Ed. Rosalind M. T. Hill, v. 7 (Lincoln: J. W. Ruddock & Sons 1975) p. 31, 56.
  2. 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.
  3. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Bibliography

  • Katherine H. Tachau, Optics, Epistemology and the Foundations of Semantics, 1250-1345 (1988) pp. 165–179

External links

Template:Authority control