Guido Terrena (c.1270 in
Perpignan – 1342), also known as Guido Terreni and Guy de Perpignan, was a Catalan
Carmelite canon lawyer and scholastic philosopher.
He was an early infallibilist;[8] the concept of
papal infallibility is thought to occur first in a work he wrote concerning the conflict of
Pope John XXII (1316–34) and the
Franciscan Spirituals.[9] It is said that he adapted this doctrine to papal needs, rather than originating it,[10] and before 1328.[11]
He was a leading member of a small group of infallibilists at the court of Pope John XXII.[12] His position on papal infallibility "so closely anticipated the doctrine of Vatican I that in the judgment of B.M. Xiberta, the Carmelite scholar who edited [Terreni's] work, 'if he had written it after Vatican I he would have to add or change hardly a single word.'"[13] He wrote: "We are not asking whether a pope can be a heretic in himself but whether he can err in defining anything in the church and obliging the faithful to believe, so that his error does not concern the person of the pope alone but concerns all the faithful and the whole church of Christ. For an error concerning his person can inhere in the pope, but not an error concerning the whole church."[14]
Other works include the Errores Sarracenorum against
Islam,[20] a Summa de haresibus and a
Decretum commentary.[2]
Burial place
Guido was buried in the Carmelite church in Avignon.[21]
References
A. Fidora, Guido Terreni, O. Carm. (†1342). Studies and Texts (= Textes et études du moyen age, 78), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015,
ISBN978-2-503-55528-7
Guiu Terreni, Confutatio errorum quorundam magistrorum, ed. Alexander Fidora, Almudena Blasco and Celia López Alcalde, Barcelona: Obrador edéndum, 2014.
B.-M. Xiberta, Guiu Terrena, Carmelita de Perpinyà, (Barcelona 1932)
Jorge J.E. Gracia, The Convertibility of Unum and Ens According to Guido Terrena, Franciscan Studies, 33, 1973, pp. 143–170
T. Shogimen, William of Ockham and Guido Terreni, History of Political Thought, 19, 4, 1998, pp. 517–530
C. Schabel, Early Carmelites between Giants. Questions on Future Contingents by Gerard of Bologna and Guy Terrena. Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales 70 (2003) 139–205.
Notes
^Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone (editors), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages (2003), p. 291.
^"OBISPADO DE ELNA". 26 October 2009. Archived from the original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2017.{{
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^"Orange". Pagesperso-orange.fr. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
^Andrew Jotischky, The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and Their Pasts in the Middle Ages (2002), p. 26.
^Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine (1989), p. 107.
^Philippe Levillain,The Papacy: An Encyclopedia (2002), p. 776.
^Paul Misner, Papacy and Development: Newman and the Primacy of the Pope (1976), note p. 176.
^Brian Gogan, The Common Corps of Christendom (1982), note p. 32.