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DURAND, GUILLAUME (d. 1334)

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DURAND, See also:GUILLAUME (d. 1334) , See also:French scholastic theologian, known also by the Latin See also:form of his name as DURANDUS of St Pourgain (de Sancto Porciano) , and as See also:Doctor Resolutissimus, was See also:born at St Pourgain-sur-Sioule in the Bourbonnois. He entered the Dominican See also:order at Clermont, and in 1313 was made a doctor in See also:Paris, where he taught till See also:Pope See also:John XXII. called him to See also:Avignon as See also:master of the sacred See also:palace, i.e. theological adviser and preacher to the pope. He subsequently became See also:bishop of Limoux (1317), of Le See also:Puy (1318) and of See also:Meaux (1326). He composed a commentary on the Sentences of See also:Peter Lombard, in which, breaking with the See also:realism of St See also:Thomas See also:Aquinas, he anticipated the terminism of See also:William of See also:Occam, and gave up the See also:attempt to show that dogmas can be demonstrated by See also:reason. In the question of the beatific See also:vision, arising out of opinions promulgated by John XXII. (q.v.), he sided with Thomas Walleis, Armand de Bellovisu and the doctors of the See also:faculty of See also:theology in Paris against the pope, and composed his De statu animarum See also:post separationem a See also:cor See also:pore. Mention should also be made of his De origin jurisdictionum quibus populus regitur, sive de jurisdictione ecclesiastica et de legibus. See B. See also:Haureau, Histoire de la philosophic scolastique (2nd ed., Paris, 1872) ; C. See also:Werner, See also:Die Scholastik See also:des spateren Mittelalters, vol. ii. (See also:Vienna, 1883); H.

'S. Denifle, in Archiv f. Litteratur and Kirchengeschichte, ii. (1886); U. See also:

Chevalier, See also:Rep. des See also:sources hist. du moyen See also:age, s.v. Durand de St Pourgain.

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