Nicholas of Amiens (Nicholaus Ambianensis) (1147 – c.1200) was a French theologian, a pupil of
Gilbert de la Porrée
Gilbert de la Porrée (after 1085 – 4 September 1154), also known as Gilbert of Poitiers, Gilbertus Porretanus or Pictaviensis, was a scholastic logician and theologian and Bishop of Poitiers.
Life
He was born in Poitiers, and completed ...
.
He is known for a single major work, the ''De arte catholicae fidei''; it is modelled after ''
Euclid's Elements
The ''Elements'' ( grc, Στοιχεῖα ''Stoikheîa'') is a mathematical treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulat ...
''. Some still attribute it to
Alain of Lille, a question that has divided scholars since the nineteenth century.
Marie-Dominique Chenu
Marie-Dominique Chenu (; 7 January 1895, Soisy-sur-Seine, Essonne – 11 February 1990, Paris) was a progressive Catholic theologian and one of the founders of the reformist journal '' Concilium''.
Early life
Chenu was born on 7 January 1895 a ...
, ''Nature, Man and Society in the Twelfth Century'' (1997), p. 45 and references.
References
*G. R. Evans (1983), ''Alan of Lille: The Frontiers of Theology in the Later Twelfth Century'', Appendix, on the authorship issue
*Mechthild Dreyer (1993), ''Nikolaus von Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae: Ein Beispielwerk axiomatischer Methode''
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1147 births
Year of death unknown
12th-century French Catholic theologians
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