Theological Debates at the University of Paris

Name: Theological Debates at the University of Paris
Start: 1284
End: 1285

Type Event Region France Time 1284–1285

Around 1284, theological disputes at the University of Paris intensified over Aristotle's philosophy, Christian theology, and mendicant versus secula…

Timeline

1284Faculty of Theology, University of Paris · ParisFaculty of theology teachers held public debates on reason and faith and whether Aristotle's natural philosophy could be incorporated into theological argument; divisions between Averroist interpretations and the Augustinian tradition continued to ferment in lectures and disputatio.
1284–1285Paris · FranceThe influence of Franciscan and Dominican theologians on theology chairs provoked resistance from secular clergy; in the 1280s the papacy repeatedly intervened in university statutes, and around 1284 related conflicts and theological debates interacted, affecting relations between the French king and Rome.

Sources

The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages — Hastings Rashdall (1895)
Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages — Etienne Gilson (1938)