Robert Cowton () was a Franciscan theologian active at the University of Oxford early in the fourteenth century. He was a follower of Henry of Ghent,Antonie Vos, The Philosophy of John Duns Scotus (2006), p. 50. and in the Augustinian tradition.Alister E. McGrath, The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation (2003), p. 84. He was familiar with the doctrines of Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas, and attempted a synthesis of them.J. I. Catto, Theologians 1220-1320 in The History of the University of Oxford (1984), p. 512.
He entered the Franciscan Order before age 13.William J. Courtenay, Adam Wodeham: An Introduction to His Life and Writings (1978), p. 46. He presented a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard around 1310.M. J. F. M. Hoenen, Marsilius of Inghen: Divine Knowledge in Late Medieval Thought (1993), p. 179. Later, in an abbreviated form, this became a standard textbook of theology. The work was criticised by Thomas Sutton.Hoenen, p. 46.
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References B. Hechich (1958), De Immaculata Conceptione Beatae Mariae Virginis secundum Thomas de Sutton O.P. et Robertus Cowton O.F.M. Hermann Theissing (1970), Glaube und Theologie bei Robert Cowton OFM
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