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AMALRIC (Fr. AMAURY) OF BENA (d. c. 1204-1207)  , See also:French theologian, was See also:born in the latter See also:part of the 12th See also:century at Bena, a See also:village in the See also:diocese of See also:Chartres . He taught See also:philosophy and See also:theology at the university of See also:Paris and enjoyed a See also:great reputation as a subtle dialectician; his lectures developing the philosophy of See also:Aristotle attracted a large circle of hearers . In 1204 his doctrines were condemned by the university, and, on a See also:personal See also:appeal to See also:Pope See also:Innocent III., the See also:sentence was ratified, See also:Amalric being ordered to return to Paris and recant his errors . His See also:death was caused, it is said, by grief at the humiliation to which he had been subjected . In 1209 ten of his followers were burnt before the See also:gates of Paris, and Amalric's own See also:body was exhumed and burnt and the ashes given to the winds . The doctrines of his followers, known as the Amalricians, were formally condemned by the See also:fourth Lateran See also:Council in 1215 . Amalric appears to have derived his philosophical See also:system from See also:Erigena (q.v.), whose principles he See also:developed in a one-sided and strongly pantheistic See also:form . Three propositions only can with certainty be attributed to him: (r) that See also:God is all; (2) that every See also:Christian is See also:bound to believe that he is a member of the body of See also:Christ, and that this belief is necessary for salvation: (3) that he who remains in love of God can commit no See also:sin . These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold See also:revelation, the first in See also:Abraham, marking the See also:epoch of the See also:Father; the second in Christ, who began the epoch of the Son; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the See also:Holy See also:Ghost . Under the pretext that a true believer could commit no sin, the Amalricians indulged in every excess, and the See also:sect does not appear to have See also:long survived the death of its founder . See W . Preger, Geschichte der deutschen Mystik See also:im Miltelaltee (See also:Leipzig, 1874, i .

167-173) ; See also:

Haureau, Hist. de la Phil. scol . (Paris, 1872) ; C . See also:Schmidt, Hist. de l'Eglise d'Occident See also:pendant le moyen dge (Paris, 1885) ; See also:Hefele, Conciliengesch . (2nd ed., See also:Freiburg, 1886) .

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