Walter of Château-Thierry

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Walter of Château-Thierry [1] (died 1249) was a French theologian and scholastic philosopher. He became Bishop of Paris in the final year of his life. [2]

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He wrote on the various meanings of conscience. [3] He was Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1246, and wrote critically of lazy students and money-minded teachers. [4] His question on the office of preaching discusses the suitability of women, laymen, heretics, mendicants and sinners for preaching. [5]

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  1. Gautier, Gauthier, Gauthier II, Gualter de Château-Thierry; Galterus, Gualterus, Gualterius de Castro Theodorici, Gualterus Cancellarius.
  2. chateauthierry
  3. Michael Bertram Crowe, The Changing Profile of the Natural Law (1977), p. 132.
  4. Astrik L. Gabriel, Conflict between the Chancellor and University p. 145, in Albert Zimmermann (editor), Die Auseinandersetzungen an der Pariser Universität im XIII. Jahrhundert (1976).
  5. 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