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William of Auxer(r)e (died 1231) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 scholastic
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 theologian and official in the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

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The teacher by whom William was most influenced was Praepositinus
Praepositinus

Praepositinus was an Italian Dominican Order scholastic philosopher and theologian. He was a liturgical commentator, and supporter a res-theory of belief....
, or Prevostin, of Cremona, Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1206 to 1209. The names of teacher and pupil are mentioned in the same sentence by Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dominican Order was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Order from Italy, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis....
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He was an Archdeacon of Beauvais
Beauvais

Beauvais is a town and commune in France and capital of the Oise Departments of France in northern France. Population : city: 57,355; city and suburbs: 59,003; metropolitan area: 100,733....
 before becoming a professor of theology at the university in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
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William of Auxer(r)e (died 1231) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 scholastic
Scholasticism

Scholasticism was the dominant form of theology and philosophy in the Western Europe in the Middle Ages, particularly in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries....
 theologian and official in the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
.

The teacher by whom William was most influenced was Praepositinus
Praepositinus

Praepositinus was an Italian Dominican Order scholastic philosopher and theologian. He was a liturgical commentator, and supporter a res-theory of belief....
, or Prevostin, of Cremona, Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1206 to 1209. The names of teacher and pupil are mentioned in the same sentence by Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dominican Order was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Order from Italy, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis....
.

He was an Archdeacon of Beauvais
Beauvais

Beauvais is a town and commune in France and capital of the Oise Departments of France in northern France. Population : city: 57,355; city and suburbs: 59,003; metropolitan area: 100,733....
 before becoming a professor of theology at the university in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
. In 1231, he was made a member of the commission appointed by Gregory IX to examine Aristotle
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Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
's writings on the natural sciences and to offer amendments where religiously necessary. Consequently, William was one of the first theologians to be influenced by Aristotle. His Summa Aurea shows a debt still to Peter Lombard
Peter Lombard

Peter Lombard or Petrus Lombardus; was a scholasticism and bishop and author of Sentences, which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he is also known as Magister Sententiarum....
, and it advances the ontological argument
Ontological argument

An ontological Existence of God#Arguments for the existence of God attempts the method of a priori , which uses intuition and reason alone. In the context of the Abrahamic religions, ontological arguments were first proposed by the Medieval philosophy, Avicenna and Anselm of Canterbury ....
 (which would soon be rejected officially), but it also shows novelty and an intellectual awareness and insistence on the physical that had not been seen earlier. Summa Aurea influenced John of Treviso.

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