| By 1324, John Lutterell, a former chancellor of Oxford university, complained about Ockham’s orthodoxy, and Ockham was summoned to the papal court at Avignon. Arriving in Avignon between January and May 1324, he stayed there while his theological and philosophical works were being examined. IN 1326 the commission, headed by Durand of St. Pourçain, concluded that 51 propositions in Ockham's writing deserved censure, but they were never formally condemned by the Pope. In 1237, the Franciscan minister general Michael of Cesena arrived in Avignon. Ockham met Cesena and became embroiled in the dispute about Francisan poverty, about whether Christ and his disciples had ever owned anything. | | By 1324, John Lutterell, a former chancellor of Oxford university, complained about Ockham’s orthodoxy, and Ockham was summoned to the papal court at Avignon. Arriving in Avignon between January and May 1324, he stayed there while his theological and philosophical works were being examined. IN 1326 the commission, headed by Durand of St. Pourçain, concluded that 51 propositions in Ockham's writing deserved censure, but they were never formally condemned by the Pope. In 1237, the Franciscan minister general Michael of Cesena arrived in Avignon. Ockham met Cesena and became embroiled in the dispute about Francisan poverty, about whether Christ and his disciples had ever owned anything. |
− | At the request of Michael, Ockham began to study John XXII’s views on Franciscan poverty, concluding that the pope’s views were heretical. This forced him to leave Avignon for Pisa with Michael on May 26, 1328. There, they met the Emperor Louis of Bavaria, who invited them in 1330, Ockham travelled to the imperial court in Munich, where he spent most of his remaining life with the writing of political and ecclesiological treatises (such as the Breviloquium and the Dialogus); working in a circle of opponents of John XXII that also included the Franciscan friars Franciscus de Marchia, Bonagratia of Bergamo, and Henry of Thalheim, as well as the political theorist Marsilius of Padua. The Pope excommunicated Ockham for his political views. In the late 1330s and 1340s, when his fellow opponents of the Pope John XXII either died or reconciled themselves with the church, Ockham became increasingly isolated, to die in April 1347, when he was c. 60 years old. | + | At the request of Michael, Ockham began to study John XXII’s views on Franciscan poverty, concluding that the pope’s views were heretical. This forced him to leave Avignon for Pisa with Michael on May 26, 1328. There, they met the Emperor Louis of Bavaria, who invited them in 1330, Ockham travelled to the imperial court in Munich, where he spent most of his remaining life with the writing of political and ecclesiological treatises. The Pope excommunicated Ockham for his political views. In the late 1330s and 1340s, when his fellow opponents of the Pope John XXII either died or reconciled themselves with the church, Ockham became increasingly isolated, dying in April 1347, when he was about 60. |