Alexander of Hales

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The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)
... of Hales ( c. 1185–1245 ) Influential Franciscan theologian and writer on logic , known as ‘Doctor Irrefragabilis’ (irrefutable doctor). Alexander taught the independence of theology, based on revelation, and philosophy, based on...

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
.... Andrea Janelle Dickens ‘Alexander of Hales’, The History of Franciscan Theology , ed. K. Osborne (1994), 1–38. I. Herscher , ‘ A Bibliography of Alexander of Hales ’, FranS 5 (1945),...

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... of Hales ( c. 1185–1245 ) Theologian , born in Hales (now Halesowen) ; he studied at Paris and taught theology there. For a short time he held various ecclesiastical appointments in England and became archdeacon of Coventry. Returning to Paris, he entered the Franciscan order and continued to teach theology, becoming the first member of this new order to hold the chair of theology there. He introduced the commentary on the Sententiae of Peter Lombard to the syllabus. He began the Summa Theologica attributed to him, but it was completed by...

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 rev. ed.)
...als heilsgeschichtliche Periode nach Alexander von Hales (BGPM NS 2; 1970). E. Bettoni , Il Problema della Conoscibilità di Dio nella Scuola Francescana (Il Pensiero medioevale, 1st ser. 1; Padua, 1950), 1–106. B. Smalley , ‘ The Gospels in the Paris Schools in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. Peter the Chanter, Hugh of St. Cher, Alexander of Hales, John of La Rochelle ’, Franciscan Studies , 39 (1979), 230–54; 40 (1980), pp. 298–369, esp. pp. 317–44. I. Herscher, OFM, ‘A Bibliography of Alexander of Hales’, ibid. 26 (1945), pp. 435–54. A. Emmen...

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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
... of Hales (before 1186–1245 ) Franciscan , born at Hales Owen in Shropshire before 1186 , master of arts before 1210 , Alexander of Hales was, according to Roger Bacon ( Opus minus , London, 1859 , p. 325-329), a good man, rich, a great archdeacon of Coventry, loaded with honours, one of the great masters of theology of his time. He kept a school at Paris in c. 1220–1221 and was the first to take as his basic teaching text the Liber sententiarum of Peter Lombard . In 1229 , during the students' strike, he was bursar of the masters ...

Alexander of Hales (c.1186–1245) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
... of Hales ( c. 1186–1245 ), theologian . He studied arts and theology at Paris , becoming a doctor c. 1220/1 . He took the fateful step of using the Sentences of Peter Lombard , instead of the Bible, as the basic text for his lectures on theology. In 1236 he joined the Franciscan Order , but retained his chair. He is regarded as the founder of the Franciscan school of theology, but the Summa theologica which goes under his name is only partly his. He had some part in the composition of an Expositio in Regulam S. Francisci ( 1242 ), popularly...

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The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy
...Doucet, V. , ‘ The History of the Problem of the Authenticity of the Summa ’, Franciscan Studies , vol. 7 (1947), pp. 26–41. Bougerol, J. G. , Introduction to the Works of Bonaventure (Patterson, New Jersey, 1963). Further Reading Barnes, J. , ‘The Just War’, in N. Kretzman (ed.), The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (Cambridge, 1982). Boehner, Philotheus , Alexander of Hales , Part 1 of The History of the Franciscan School (St. Bonaventure, NY, 1943). ——, ‘ The System of Metaphysics of Alexander of Hales ’, Franciscan Studies , vol....

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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...France ( 1790 ), explicitly rejected radical interpretations of the rights of man tending to popular sovereignty. True, he wrote respectfully of Blackstone as one of ‘the great men’ of English law, and appealed at moments to the legal writings of the seventeenth-century jurists Edward Coke and Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ). Yet Burke took pains to purge the common law tradition of the elements of Enlightenment rationalism which the Commentaries had deployed to explain and justify the constitution of civil society, and which ultimately implied accountability to...

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