John Baconthorpe

John Baconthorpe, OCarm (also Bacon, Baco, and Bacconius) (c. 1290 – 1346) was a learned English Carmelite friar and scholastic philosopher.

[5] (The text can be found in original Latin under the title Doctoris resoluti Joannis Bacconis Anglici Carmelitae radiantissimi opus super quattuor sententiarum libris.)

Additionally, there are three Quodlibeta, questions on canon law, and commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew, Augustine, and Anselm that have survived.

As a theologian, he made a point to defend the doctrine of Immaculate Conception, and to assert the importance of his order in the context of historical and spiritual tradition.

[4] Similarly, Baconthorpe openly debated with his contemporaries, such as Henry of Ghent, Duns Scotus, and Peter Auriol,[3] and consistently challenged the perspectives of earlier philosophers.

He was given the title princeps Averroistarum, meaning "prince of Averroists," by masters at the University of Padua centuries after his death.

Perhaps the most important influence on John Baconthorpe was the Oxford and Paris Condemnations of 1277,[3] in which teaching any of 219 philosophical and theological theses was prohibited by the Bishop, Stephen Tempier.

[3] Baconthorpe's perspective on angels was similarly influenced by the Condemnations at Paris, in strict opposition to Aquinas.