Doctrinal Aspects and Sources of John Wenck’s Early Works in Heidelberg (1431)
Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Andrea Fiamma
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/3
Language English Pages 33 P. 549-581 File size 407 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2024-003004
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John Wenck (†1460) supported Albertism while he was master of Arts in Paris. In 1426, he enrolled at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Heidelberg. It is not yet clear whether in Heidelberg Wenck continued to uphold the same Albertist ideas or whether he shifted toward Thomism, as suggested by Rudolf Haubst. The paper reconsiders this issue by analyzing the early works Wenck wrote as a theology student in Heidelberg, namely his Principia on Peter Lombard’s Sentences and quaestiones on the Holy Spirit and on the Incarnation (1431). Editions of these writings are either lacking or currently in preparation. The paper brings out their main sources, especially Bonaventure, and highlight the doctrinal aspects of the debates that Wenck developed with his colleagues in those years. Moreover, the paper finds here the premises of the Wegestreit between the via Antiqua and the Nominalists, which continued to mark the University of Heidelberg in the following years. The main topics discussed by the paper are divine omnipotence, the creation and eternity of the world, and the interpretation of Aristotelian philosophy.
Keywords: Albertism, Nominalism, Metaphysics, Sentences, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure.
Andrea Fiamma, Doctrinal Aspects and Sources of John Wenck’s Early Works in Heidelberg (1431) in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 3/2024, pp 549-581, DOI: 10.3280/SF2024-003004