Oxford after Scotus

Abstract This chapter examines Christology at Oxford in the first half of the fourteenth century, beginning with Ockham, and then focusing on theologians, Franciscan and Dominican, whose primary interlocutor was Ockham. The principal source for Ockham’s Christology was Scotus, and the chapter introduces some of the ways in which Ockham diverges from his eminent predecessor—most notably, in terms of the modalities of subsistence. It shows that the influence of Ockham was pervasive in Oxford during this period, and identifies even among the Dominicans only one marginally dissenting voice—Hugh of Lawton, who uniquely shows some knowledge of, and interest in, the Christology of Aquinas.