Guido Terrena Explained

Guido Terrena (c.1270 in Perpignan  - 1342), also known as Guido Terreni and Guy de Perpignan, was a Catalan Carmelite canon lawyer and scholastic philosopher.

Life

He was a student of Godfrey of Fontaines, and teacher of John Baconthorpe.^[1] He became Prior-General of the Carmelites in 1318,^[2] bishop of Mallorca, and bishop of Elna.^{[3] [4] [5]} As bishop of Elna he opposed Adhémar IV de Mosset.^[6]

A strong proponent of Aristotle, he taught at Avignon.^[7]

Works

He was an early infallibilist;^[8] the concept of papal infallibility is thought to occur first in a work he wrote concerning the conflict of Pope John XXII (1316–34) and the Franciscan Spirituals.^[9] It is said that he adapted this doctrine to papal needs, rather than originating it,^[10] and before 1328.^[11]

He was a leading member of a small group of infallibilists at the court of Pope John XXII.^[12] His position on papal infallibility "so closely anticipated the doctrine of Vatican I that in the judgment of B.M. Xiberta, the Carmelite scholar who edited [Terreni's] work, 'if he had written it after Vatican I he would have to add or change hardly a single word.'"^[13] He wrote: "We are not asking whether a pope can be a heretic in himself but whether he can err in defining anything in the church and obliging the faithful to believe, so that his error does not concern the person of the pope alone but concerns all the faithful and the whole church of Christ. For an error concerning his person can inhere in the pope, but not an error concerning the whole church."^[14]

He was one of those opposing the views of Arnold of Villanova on the Antichrist;^{[15] [16]} and he first dubbed Joachim of Fiore a heretic.^[17] He was asked, with Pierre de la Palud, to report on Peter John Olivi's apocalyptic writing.^{[18] [19]}

He wrote commentaries on Aristotle's De anima, Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics, and Physics.

Other works include the Errores Sarracenorum against Islam,^[20] a Summa de haresibus and a Decretum commentary.^[2]

Burial place

Guido was buried in the Carmelite church in Avignon.^[21]

References

• A. Fidora, Guido Terreni, O. Carm. (†1342). Studies and Texts (= Textes et études du moyen age, 78), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015,
• Guiu Terreni, Confutatio errorum quorundam magistrorum, ed. Alexander Fidora, Almudena Blasco and Celia López Alcalde, Barcelona: Obrador edéndum, 2014.
• B.-M. Xiberta, Guiu Terrena, Carmelita de Perpinyà, (Barcelona 1932)
• Jorge J.E. Gracia, The Convertibility of Unum and Ens According to Guido Terrena, Franciscan Studies, 33, 1973, pp. 143–170
• T. Shogimen, William of Ockham and Guido Terreni, History of Political Thought, 19, 4, 1998, pp. 517–530
• C. Schabel, Early Carmelites between Giants. Questions on Future Contingents by Gerard of Bologna and Guy Terrena. Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales 70 (2003) 139–205.

External links

• List of Works at Liste lateinischer Autoren und anonymer Werke des 13. Jahrhunderts (ca. 1170-1320)

Notes and References

1. Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone (editors), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages (2003), p. 291.
2. Web site: Archived copy . 2008-03-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080307022407/http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/1298c-g.htm . 2008-03-07 .
3. Daniel Williman, The Right of Spoil of the Popes of Avignon, 1316-1415 (1988), p. 121.
4. Web site: Guido de Terrena - Enciclopedia Symploké. Symploke.trujaman.org. 14 October 2017.
5. Web site: OBISPADO DE ELNA. 26 October 2009. 14 October 2017. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20091026220045/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/2572/ObispadoElna.htm. 26 October 2009.
6. Web site: Orange. Pagesperso-orange.fr. 14 October 2017.
7. Andrew Jotischky, The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and Their Pasts in the Middle Ages (2002), p. 26.
8. Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine (1989), p. 107.
9. Philippe Levillain,The Papacy: An Encyclopedia (2002), p. 776.
10. Paul Misner, Papacy and Development: Newman and the Primacy of the Pope (1976), note p. 176.
11. Brian Gogan, The Common Corps of Christendom (1982), note p. 32.
12. Infallibilists in the curia of Pope John XXII. Thomas. Turley=. Journal of Medieval History. 1975. 1. 1. 71–101. 14 October 2017. 10.1016/0304-4181(75)90032-9.
13. http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=Powell+%22change+hardly+a+single%22&btnG= Mark E. Powell, Papal Infallibility: A Protestant Evaluation of an Ecumenical Issue
14. https://books.google.com/books?id=Dn4eAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA249 Brian Tierney, Origins of papal infallibility, 1150-1350
15. Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (1969), p. 315.
16. [John Anthony Burrow]
17. Reeves, p. 69.
18. Web site: Find Local Contractors - Home Remodeling Contractors on Ecnext. Goliath.ecnext.com. 14 October 2017.
19. [Gordon Leff]
20. Joseph Puig, p. 2560 in Andreas Speer, Wissen über Grenzen: Arabisches wissen und lateinisches Mittelalter (2006).
21. Web site: Istoria della Citta' d'Avignone, e del contado Venesino, stati della sede apostolica nella Gallia,... scritta dal P. M. Sebastiano Fantoni Castrucci...All' illustriss. & eccellentiss. signore il signor D. Maffeo Barberini... Tomo primo [-Tomo secondo]]. Sebastiano Fantoni. Castrucci. 14 October 1678. presso Gio: Giacomo Hertz. 14 October 2017. Google Books.