Thomas of Sutton

Thomas of Sutton ^[1] (died after 1315) was an English Dominican theologian, an early Thomist. ^[2]

He was ordained as deacon in 1274 by Walter Giffard, and joined the Dominicans in the 1270s; he may have been a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford before that. He became doctor of theology in 1282. ^[3]

Works

He wrote a large number of works, in some of which he opposed Duns Scotus. ^[4]

The following works are among those authored by him:

• Commentarium in IV sententiarum libros
• Contra pluralitatem formarum
• De productione formae substantialis
• Liber propugnatorius contra I Sent. Duns Scoti
• Super IV librum Sent. Duns Scoti
• Contra Quodlibeta Joh. Duns Scoti
• Contra librum primum et quartum commentarii Oxoniensis Johannis Duns Scoti
• Contra I-III lib. Sent. Roberti Cowton
• Impugnat. Aegidium Romanum
• De ente et essentia
• Quaestiones disputatae
• Quaestiones ordinariae
• Quodlibeta
• Sermones

References

• Pierre Mandonnet (editor) (1927), Contra pluralitatem formarum
• B. Hechich (1958), De Immaculata Conceptione Beatae Mariae Virginis secundum Thomas de Sutton O.P. et Robertus Cowton O.F.M.
• Johannes Schneider (ed.) (1977), Thomas de Sutton, Quaestiones ordinariae, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
• P. Osmund Lewry, Two Continuators of Aquinas: Robertus de Vulgarbia and Thomas Sutton on the Perihermeneias of Aristotle, Mediaeval Studies 43 (1981), 58-130.
• G. Prouvost, Thomas de Sutton contre Gilles de Rome. La question de l'être: le conflit des interprétations chez les premiers thomistes (XIIIe-XIVe s.), Revue Thomiste 95 (1995), 417-429.
• Mark D. Gossiaux, Thomas of Sutton and the Real Distinction between Essence and Existence, Modern Schoolman 83 (2006), 263-84.

Notes

1. Thomas de Sutton, Thomas de Suttona, Thomas de Sutona, Thomas de Suthona, Thomas Anglicus.
2. "Gyula Klima, Thomas of Sutton on the Nature of the Intellective Soul and the Thomistic Theory of Being".
3. The History of the University of Oxford (1984), p. 466.
4. Hester Goodenough Gelber, It Could Have Been Otherwise: Contingency and Necessity in Dominican (2004), p. 34.

External links

• (in German) List of works
• Christoph Kann (1996). "Thomas von Sutton (Thomas de Suthona, Thomas Anglicus)". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 11. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 1408–1410. ISBN   3-88309-064-6.
• De Natura accidentis (attribution uncertain), online Latin text
• De instantibus (attribution uncertain), online Latin text
• FAITANIN, Paulo, “O princípio de individuação segundo Tomás de Sutton.”, Aquinate, n°. 15, (2011), 66-89.