CORRECTORS. - Polemical writings of Franciscans and Dominicans concerning the doctrine of St. Thomas in the 25 years after his death.

The Franciscan William de la Mare, in his Correctorium fratris Thomae (1278), singled out from various works of the Aquinate 118 propositions, which he rejected, opposing to Thomistic Aristotelianism the solutions of traditional Augustinianism. The Dominicans called this writing Corruptorium and opposed to it, in defense of the doctrine of St. Thomas, various works entitled Correctorium corruptorii. There was also a Franciscan reply to one of them. This literature of the correctoria has considerable value for the historical knowledge of the philosophical doctrines proper to St. Thomas and of the first Thomistic school.

William's work appears in three states, indicating a successive elaboration: 1) the Declarationes, a brief censure of 60 articles, capable of being written in the margin of the works of St. Thomas; 2) the Correctorium of 118 articles, edited together with the c. Quare (v. below); 3) an augmented revision of this, which brings the number of articles from 109 (excluding the 9 against the Comm. on the Sentences) to 138. The Dominican responses, which all refer to the Correctorium in its second state, are: 1) the c. Quare (ed. P. Glorieux, in Bibl. thomiste, IX, Kain 1927) written probably by Richard Clapwell (according to Pelster, by Thomas of Sutton), a short time after William's work; 2) the c. Circa (ed. J. P. Muller [Studia Anselmiana, 12-13], Rome 1941) of John Quidort of Paris, written in the years 1282-84, incomplete; 3) the c. Sciendum of Robert of Colletorto; 4) the c. Quaestione (incomplete), of an author not yet determined, still unpublished; 5) the Apologeticum veritatis contra Corruptorium (ed. J. P. Muller [Studi e Testi, 108], Vatican City 1944) of Ramberto de' Primadizzi of Bologna, composed in 1287-99, in which are discussed, within the framework of William's writing, antinomial arguments of Henry of Ghent and of Giles of Rome.

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BIBL.: F. Ehrle, Der Kampf um die Lehre des hl. Thomas v. Aquin, in Zeitschrift für kath. Theol., 37 (1913), pp. 266-318; P. Mandonnet, Premiers travaux de polémique thomiste, in Revue des sciences philos. et théol., 7 (1913), pp. 46-69; P. Glorieux, La littérature des correctoires, in Revue thomiste, 33 (1928), pp. 69-96; P. Bayerschmidt, Robert von Colletorto, Verfasser des Correctorium « Sciendum », in Divus Thomas, 17 (1939). pp. 311-26; R. Creytens, Autour de la littérature des Correctoires, in Archivum Fr. Praed., 12 (1942), pp. 313-30; F. Pelster, Das Ur-Correctorium Wilhems de la Mare, in Gregorianum, 28 (1947), pp. 220-35; id., Thomas von Sutton und das Correctorium « Quare detraxiis », in Melanges A. Pelzer, Louvain 1947, pp. 441-466; P. Glorieux, Les Correctoires, essai de mise au point, in Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale, 14 (1947), pp. 287-304.

Giovanni Muller

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