Franciscan School

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The Franciscan School is a medieval theological and philosophical tradition within the Franciscan Order, noted for its emphasis on voluntarism, Christocentrism, and the thought of figures such as Bonaventure and John Duns Scotus.

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Franciscan School canonical 1
Franciscan schools 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf medieval intellectual movement
philosophical tradition
theological tradition
academicCenters Dominican studia
surface form: Franciscan studia generalia

University of Oxford
La Sorbonne
surface form: University of Paris
associatedWith Alexander of Hales
Bonaventure
Bonaventura da Bagnoregio
surface form: Bonaventure of Bagnoregio

Duns Scotus
surface form: John Duns Scotus

Nicholas of Lyra
Peter John Olivi
Roger Bacon
William of Ockham
contrastedWith Dominican School
Thomism
surface form: Thomist School
developedIn 13th century
14th century
emphasis Christocentrism
divine freedom
exemplarism
illumination theory of knowledge
incarnation as central to creation
primacy of charity
voluntarism
focusesOn Christ as center of creation
freedom of the divine will
incarnation as primary divine intention
will over intellect in God
hasKeyFigure Alexander of Hales
Bonaventure
Duns Scotus
surface form: John Duns Scotus

Peter John Olivi
Roger Bacon
William of Ockham
historicalPeriod High Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
influenced Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception
late medieval theology
modern Catholic Christology
influencedBy Augustinian theology
surface form: Augustinian tradition

Biblical exegesis
Patristic theology
keyDoctrine absolute primacy of Christ
exemplarism in metaphysics
formal distinction (in Scotist metaphysics)
illumination in epistemology
univocity of being (in Scotist form)
philosophicalOrientation medieval scholastic theology
scholasticism
religiousFamily Order of Friars Minor
Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
Order of Friars Minor Conventual
religiousOrderContext Franciscan Order
traditionWithin Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic Church

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Duns Scotus influenced Franciscan School
Saint Louis of Toulouse educatedAt Franciscan School
this entity surface form: Franciscan schools