William Ockham

[Steven Avery]

William Ockham 1288-1348
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham

William of Ockham (/ˈɒkəm/; also Occam, from Latin: Gulielmus Occamus;[9][10] c. 1287 – 1347) was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, and theologian, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey.[11] He is considered to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the 14th century. He is commonly known for Occam's razor, the methodological principle that bears his name, and also produced significant works on logic, physics, and theology. William is remembered in the Church of England with a commemoration on 10 April.[12]

98 Guillelmus de Ockham, Scriptum in librum primum Sententiarum, in William of Ockham, 1967-1979, 2:359; 4:228.
Et est mirabilis novitas vide re tres personas ab invicem non distinctas. Nam Filius non distinguitur a Patre, neque Spiritus sanctus a Patre et Filio, qui procedit ab eis; et tamen tres personae sunt, et hii tres unum sunt. Haec verba eius hacretica fidei catholicae inimica.
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[Steven Avery]

Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham (2010)
Russell L. Friedman
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ss_YxGO3rssC&pg=PA128

Notice how Russell Friedman gets blind-sided by the Vulgate critical edition, which does not tell the reader that 95% of the Latin manuscripts have the heavenly witnesses verse.

 

[Steven Avery]

The Witness of God is Greater

• [Friedman] ...given that the essence and not the intellect is the source of the Word's emanation, is the Son a Word in any strict or literal sense? Ockham replies in the affirmative: 'John the Evangelist in his first letter tells us that "three there are who give testimony in heaven, Father, Word, and Holy Spirit", therefore only the Son is the Word.

(Friedman, Intellectual Traditions at the Medieval University: The Use of Philosophical Psychology in Trinitarian Theology Among the Franciscans and Dominicans, 1250-1350, 2013, vol 2, p. 647)

HIT:
● [Q.3] "Three there are who give testimony in heaven, Father, Word, and Holy Spirit," (1 John 5:7) therefore the Son, and only the Son, is the Word. But that the Son is a Word is held on faith alone "sola fide" on account of the many authoritative passages in which we can read that it is so. This identification is not amenable to proof.

(William of Ockham, Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Book 1, Disputation 27. Question 3)

○ Latin: Ad oppositium: 'Tres sunt qui testimonium dant in caelo : Pater, Verbum et Spiritus Sanctus' (I John 5:7) Igitur Pater, Verbum et Spiritus Sanctus sunt tres; igitur Pater non est Verbum nec Spiritus Sanctus. Et certum est quod Filius est Verbum; igitur etc.

(Instituti Franciscani Universitatis S. Bonaventurae, vol 4, 1967, p. 228; See also: vol 2, p. 359).

 

[Steven Avery]

Guillelmi de Ockham Opera Politica: Compendium errorum Ioannis papae xxii ; Breviloquium de principatu tyrannico ; De imperatorum et pontificum potestate ; allegationes de potestate imperiali ; De electione Caroli quarti (1940)
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127-33 The Michaelists alleged that John XXII had preached Sahellian heresy on 17 December 1329 in a sermon on Gaudese in Domino semper (Philipp 4.4) The extract here agrees with that in In pnmis. f.253*: it had been discussed by Bonagratia. App II. f.207r and Forma, f I83'. See Ockham. Epist. 14.2!; CI.22.88.8-9. 134-5 Symbolum 'Quicumque'