Gregory Of Rimini

Gregory Of Rimini (born 13th century, Rimini, near Venice [Italy]—died November 1358, Vienna [now in Austria]) was an Italian Christian philosopher and theologian whose subtle synthesis of moderate nominalism with a theology of divine grace borrowed from St. Augustine strongly influenced the mode of later medieval thought characterizing some of the Protestant Reformers. In 1357 Gregory was elected superior general of the Augustinian monastic order after an academic career at universities in Paris, Bologna, and...