Walter of Château-Thierry (died 1249) was a French theologian and scholastic philosopher. He became
Bishop of Paris
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in the final year of his life.
He wrote on the various meanings of
conscience
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. He was
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from 1246, and wrote critically of lazy students and money-minded teachers. His question on the office of preaching discusses the suitability of women, laymen, heretics, mendicants and sinners for preaching.
[Ayelet Even-Ezra, “The Questio de officio predicacionis of Gauthier de Château Thierry: A Critical Edition,” Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen-Âge 81 (2014), 385-462]
References
*Henricus Weisweiler (1952, ''Quaestiones ineditae de Assumptione B. V. Mariae''
* Ayelet Even-Ezra, “The Questio de officio predicacionis of Gauthier de Château Thierry: A Critical Edition,” Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen-Âge 81 (2014), 385-462.
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1249 deaths
13th-century French Catholic theologians
Bishops of Paris
Chancellors of the University of Paris
Year of birth unknown
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