Robert Cowton () was a

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theologian active at the

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early in the fourteenth century. He was a follower of Henry of Ghent, and in the

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tradition. He was familiar with the doctrines of

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and

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, and attempted a synthesis of them.J. I. Catto, ''Theologians 1220-1320'' in ''The History of the University of Oxford'' (1984), p. 512. He entered the Franciscan Order before age 13. He presented a commentary on the '' Sentences'' of Peter Lombard around 1310. Later, in an abbreviated form, this became a standard textbook of theology. The work was criticised by Thomas Sutton.Hoenen, p. 46.

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References

*B. Hechich (1958), ''De Immaculata Conceptione Beatae Mariae Virginis secundum Thomas de Sutton O.P. et Robertus Cowton O.F.M.'' *Hermann Theissing (1970), ''Glaube und Theologie bei Robert Cowton OFM''

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