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Walter of Château-Thierry

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Walter of Château-Thierry[1] (died 1249) was a French theologian and scholastic philosopher. He became Bishop of Paris in the final year of his life.[2]

He wrote on the various meanings of conscience.[3] He was Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1246, and wrote critically of lazy students and money-minded teachers.[4] His question on the office of preaching discusses the suitability of women, laymen, heretics, mendicants and sinners for preaching.[5]

References

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  • Henricus Weisweiler (1952, Quaestiones ineditae de Assumptione B. V. Mariae
  • Ayelet Even-Ezra, “The Questio de officio predicacionis of Gauthier de Château Thierry: A Critical Edition,” Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen-Âge 81 (2014), 385-462.

Notes

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  1. ^ Gautier, Gauthier, Gauthier II, Gualter de Château-Thierry; Galterus, Gualterus, Gualterius de Castro Theodorici, Gualterus Cancellarius.
  2. ^ chateauthierry
  3. ^ Michael Bertram Crowe, The Changing Profile of the Natural Law (1977), p. 132.
  4. ^ Astrik L. Gabriel, Conflict between the Chancellor and University p. 145, in Albert Zimmermann (editor), Die Auseinandersetzungen an der Pariser Universität im XIII. Jahrhundert (1976).
  5. ^ Ayelet Even-Ezra, “The Questio de officio predicacionis of Gauthier de Château Thierry: A Critical Edition,” Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen-Âge 81 (2014), 385-462
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