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Who accused William of Ockham of teaching errors in his commentary on Peter Lombardâs Sentences?
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William of Ockham
English theologian and philosopher William of Ockham, detail from a stained-glass window, c. 1985; in All Saints' Church, Ockham, Surrey, England.
John Lutterell, the former chancellor of the University of Oxford, accused William of Ockham of teaching errors in his commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard.
While at Avignon, Lutterell presented a treatise to Pope John XXII in which he identified 56 propositions from Ockhamâs work that he claimed were in serious error. Lutterell subsequently served on a committee of six theologians that reviewed these extracts and produced two critical reports on Ockham's teachings.1