Thomas of Sutton (died after 1315) was an English
Dominican theologian, an early
Thomist
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.
He was ordained as
deacon
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in 1274 by
Walter Giffard
Walter Giffard (April 1279) was Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York.
Family
Giffard was a son of Hugh Giffard of Boyton in Wiltshire,Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 6: York: Archbishops' a royal justice, ...
, and joined the Dominicans in the 1270s; he may have been a Fellow of
Merton College, Oxford before that. He became
doctor of theology in 1282.
Works
He wrote a large number of works, in some of which he opposed
Duns Scotus
John Duns Scotus ( – 8 November 1308), commonly called Duns Scotus ( ; ; "Duns the Scot"), was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher, and theologian. He is one of the four most important ...
.
[Hester Goodenough Gelber, ''It Could Have Been Otherwise: Contingency and Necessity in Dominican'' (2004),p. 34.]
The following works are among those authored by him:
*''Commentarium in IV sententiarum libros''
*''Contra pluralitatem formarum''
*''De productione formae substantialis''
*''Liber propugnatorius contra I Sent. Duns Scoti''
*''Super IV librum Sent. Duns Scoti''
*''Contra Quodlibeta Joh. Duns Scoti''
*''Contra librum primum et quartum commentarii Oxoniensis Johannis Duns Scoti''
*''Contra I-III lib. Sent. Roberti Cowton''
*''Impugnat. Aegidium Romanum''
*''De ente et essentia''
*''Quaestiones disputatae''
*''Quaestiones ordinariae''
*''Quodlibeta''
*''Sermones''
References
*
Pierre Mandonnet
Pierre Mandonnet (26 February 1858 – 4 January 1936) was a French-born, Belgian Dominican historian, important in the neo-Thomist trend of historiography and the recovery of medieval philosophy. He made his reputation with a study of Sige ...
(editor) (1927), ''Contra pluralitatem formarum''
*B. Hechich (1958), ''De Immaculata Conceptione Beatae Mariae Virginis secundum Thomas de Sutton O.P. et Robertus Cowton O.F.M.''
*Johannes Schneider (ed.) (1977), ''Thomas de Sutton, Quaestiones ordinariae'', Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
*
P. Osmund Lewry, ''Two Continuators of Aquinas: Robertus de Vulgarbia and Thomas Sutton on the Perihermeneias of Aristotle'', Mediaeval Studies 43 (1981), 58-130.
*G. Prouvost, ''Thomas de Sutton contre Gilles de Rome. La question de l'être: le conflit des interprétations chez les premiers thomistes (XIIIe-XIVe s.)'', Revue Thomiste 95 (1995), 417-429.
*Mark D. Gossiaux, ''Thomas of Sutton and the Real Distinction between Essence and Existence'', Modern Schoolman 83 (2006), 263-84.
Notes
External links
List of works*
*
ttp://www.corpusthomisticum.org/xp5.html ''De instantibus'' (attribution uncertain), online Latin textbr>
''FAITANIN, Paulo, “O princípio de individuação segundo Tomás de Sutton.”, Aquinate, n°. 15, (2011), 66-89.''
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13th-century English Roman Catholic theologians
Scholastic philosophers
English Dominicans