Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PART ONE ABSOLUTISM AND THE LUTHERAN REFORMATION
- PART TWO CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE COUNTER REFORMATION
- 4 The background of constitutionalism
- 5 The revival of Thomism
- 6 The limits of constitutionalism
- Further Reading
- PART THREE CALVINISM AND THE THEORY OF REVOLUTION
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Bibliography of primary sources
- Bibliography of secondary sources
- Index
5 - The revival of Thomism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PART ONE ABSOLUTISM AND THE LUTHERAN REFORMATION
- PART TWO CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE COUNTER REFORMATION
- 4 The background of constitutionalism
- 5 The revival of Thomism
- 6 The limits of constitutionalism
- Further Reading
- PART THREE CALVINISM AND THE THEORY OF REVOLUTION
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Bibliography of primary sources
- Bibliography of secondary sources
- Index
Summary
THE THOMISTS AND THEIR ENEMIES
One of John Mair's pupils at the Collège de Montaigu in the opening years of the sixteenth century was Pierre Crockaert (c. 1450–1514), who had come from Brussels at the relatively late age to study at the University of Paris. Crockaert began as a student and teacher of the via moderna, but in 1503 he seems to have sufferent a revulsion from his training: he abandoned the study of Ockham, turned instead to Thomism, entered the Dominican Order and joined the Collège de Saint-Jacques, famous for its associations with Aquinas and Albert the Great (Renaudet, 1953, pp. 404, 464). In 1509 he began to lecture on Aquinas's Summary of Theology instead of the traditional Sentences of a Peter Lombard, and in 1512 he published a commentary on the last part of the Summary in collaboration with his pupil Francisco de Vitoria (Renaudet, 1953, pp. 469, 594). Crockaert died in 1514, but his influence as a teacher, and in consequence the popularity of the via antiqua at Paris, continued to increase. His College financed the publication of further commentaries on Aquinas in 1514, while Crockaert's own Thomist teachings were carried on by a number of brilliant pupils, including Fabrius and Meygret as well as Vitoria (Renaudet, 1953, p. 659).
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- The Foundations of Modern Political Thought , pp. 135 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1978
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