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Tractatus venerabilis inceptoris guilhelmi ocham de Sacramento altaris [tr. by T

William of Ockham

Language:
English
Status:
Complete work
Authorship:
Written by the author
Condition of the text:
Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
Extent:
~44,800 words · 213 passages
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What it is about

The treatise De sacramento altaris.

Context and history

Ockham discusses what happens in the eucharist, and along the way applies his principle of not multiplying entities: quantity is nothing distinct from substance. The question is theological and the contribution metaphysical — one of the places where the 'razor' that bears his name can be seen at work. The original is in LATIN. This is an English translation; for citation, the original.

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investigator in the realm of truth,a member of the order of the Fratres Minores, concerning the sacrament of the altar and with special referg | enee to the distinction of voint, Line, surfade, body, quantity, quality, and substance,begins euspiciously.. _ Gonserning the conversion of the bread into the body 9f of Christ, just as states ea sertain gloss on De Consecra~_ tione, Distinction T¥,*In secramentorum": "There are various opinions. One opinion asserts that that substance, which was at first bread,is afterwards the flesh and the blood lof Christ, that is,the bread is an the altar et cetera, ecause the body is vresent. The sesond opinion holds thet the substance of the bread and the vine oeases to jexict there,and only the accidents remain;nanely, taste, jcolor and likeness;and under these accidents the body lor Christ begins to exist there. The third opinion — Inoldas that the substance of the bread and the vine remains there,and that the body of christ existe poth lin the same vlace and under the same svecies;it is argued, that is,I advance this argument." Kagh opinion, however, acknowledges that the body of Christ is present here. The second opinion is more true according to he De Sumne Trinitetes *Pirmiter,# une"; these are the ords of the Gloss. According to this gloss it appears at the substance of the bread is converted into the vody of Christ,so that the substance of the bread doos Jnot romain, but only the accidents,rhich existed before } in the substange of the bread,remain. And in confir~ mation of that truth it is stated according to the De Summa Trinitate, "Firmiter",iust as the gloss previously mentioned asserts: "There is one univeraal church of all the feithful,outside of whieh no one at 211 is saved;in which the vriest and the sacupfice are the very sane person,Jesus Christ, vhose bone and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine,since the bread…

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