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Giles of Rome

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Giles of Rome

Abstract

This analytical essay presents information about the Giles of Rome and the foundation of his arguments in his `De ecclesiastica potestate . The Works Cited page appends two sources in MLA format

Outline

Introduction

The works of the Giles of Rome

Foundation of arguments in De ecclesiastica potestate

Conclusion

Introduction

Born in the year 1247 the Giles of Rome was a well-known archbishop of Bourges of

the thirteenth century . He was a scholastic philosopher and a theologian in Rome , because of which he got the name GIDIUS ROMANUS , or GILES OF ROME . He was a very creative and significant thinker of his time and also played a major role in several political events that took place in his time . The Giles of Rome entered the of Hermits of St . Augustine at Rome in the year 1260 . After entering the of Hermits of St . Augustine , he went to the University of Paris and he studied philosophical and theological there under St . Thomas Aquinas , after which he was the first Augustinian ever to be hired at the University of Paris . According to sources , In 1281 , at the Thirty-sixth Council of Paris , in which several differences between bishops and mendicant s were arranged , the he sided with the bishops against the regulars . Referring to this , a contemporary philosopher , Godfrey of Fontaines mentioned him as the most renowned theologian of the whole city (Giles of Rome ,

.1 . The year 1277 was a turning-point in the year of the Giles of Rome , when he expressed disapproval of the heterodox Aristotelianism issued by the Parisian bishop Etienne Tempier . For this and some other offenses , he was asked by Pope Honorius IV to take back his previous statement in front of the public , which he did not do and as a result he was stopped from studying theology at the university . In the year 1281 his presence at Italy has been asserted and between the year 1281 and 1284 , the Giles of Rome kept on playing significant roles in the government of his , taking part in various chapters held in Italy . At the provincial chapter of Tuscania (nowadays in Lazio , Italy ) in 1285 he acted as vicar of the prior general of his , Clement of Osimo . In 1285 , Giles 'doctrine was examined again after recanting only a part of what had been previously condemned in 1277 , he was allowed to teach again by 1287 he is referred to as a master of theology . This success enhanced Giles of Rome 's authority even more in his , whose general chapter of Florence decreed that Giles ' works (even future ones ) should be considered as the official doctrine of the , to be defended by all Augustinian bachelors and masters . In 1292 , at the General Chapter of Rome he was elected prior general of his (Lambertini ,

.1 Giles died on December 22nd , 1316 at Avignon...