Fishacre, Richard - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. V, p. 851

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FISHACRE, RICHARD. - Dominican theologian, d. 1248. He was the second master of his Order in Oxford and the first English Dominican to write a commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences (unpublished).

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Richard Fishacre (v. RICHARD) was a Dominican theologian who died in 1248. He was the second master of the Dominican Order in Oxford and the first English Dominican to compose a commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences (unpublished). Doctrinally, he still represents traditional Augustinianism, though he shows some sympathy for Aristotelianism. Other known works by him include: Tractatus de haeresibus; Quaestio disputata de successione Christi; Sermones (all unpublished except for some passages occasionally cited in scholastic literature).

BIBL.: F. Peltner, Das Leben u. die Schriften des Oxforder Dominikaners R. P., in Zeitschr. f. histb. Theol., 54 (1930), pp. 518-53 (with bibliography); id., s. V. in LThK, IV, col. 85.

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