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GABRIEL BIEL (c. 1425—1495)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 920 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GABRIEL See also:BIEL (c. 1425—1495)  , scholastic philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Spires (Speier) . He was the first See also:professor of See also:theology at the newly founded (14.77) university of See also:Tubingen, of which he was twice See also:rector . Some years before his See also:death he entered a religious fraternity . His See also:work consists in the systematic development of the views of his See also:master, See also:William of See also:Occam . His See also:Epitome et Collectorium ex Occamo super libros quatuor Sentential-um (15o8, 1512, and various See also:dates) is a clear and consistent See also:account of the nominalist See also:doctrine, and presents the See also:complete See also:system of scholastic thought from that point of view . The empirical See also:individualism of the work, tending necessarily to limit the See also:province of See also:reason and extend that of faith, together with scattered utterances on See also:special points, which gained for See also:Biel the See also:title of Papista Antipapista, had considerable See also:influence in giving See also:form to the doctrines of See also:Luther and See also:Melanchthon . It is the best specimen of the final aspect of See also:scholasticism . His other See also:works also have been frequently reprinted . The title Ultimus Scholasticorum is often wrongly bestowed on Biel; scholasticismdid not cease with him, even in See also:Germany, and continued to flourish See also:long after his See also:time in the See also:universities of See also:Spain . See Linsenmann, in Theologischen Quartalschrift (Tubingen, 1865); Stockl, Phil. d . Mittelalt. ii . § 269; H .

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Gabriel Biel als Prediger (See also:Erlangen, 1879) ; See also:art. s.v. by P . Tschackert in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, vol. iii . (1897) ; W . See also:Roscher, Ges. d . Nationalokonomnik (See also:Munich, 1874), pp .

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