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.