William of Ockham on Canon of the Old Testament
No position located on this map
Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.
THE POSITION
Not located in this pass. The medieval West used the wider canon in practice while Jerome's distinction between canonical and ecclesiastical books stayed in circulation, so period practice is not evidence about him — the honest answer needs a text of his own.
WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONNo quotations. He died in 1347 and the Latin is public domain, but the usable English translations are modern and in copyright, so these positions are paraphrased from standard scholarly accounts rather than reproduced. Fewer loci are filled for him than for Scotus, and the reason is recorded per cell rather than hidden: the literature on Ockham is dominated by his logic, metaphysics and politics, and his positions on several loci are not reported cell-by-cell in the standard accounts consulted.
WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Franciscan, the Venerable Inceptor. Nominalist in metaphysics and voluntarist about God's freedom and the human will; spent his last two decades writing against Pope John XXII from the emperor's court in Munich.
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"William of Ockham on Canon of the Old Testament", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/ockham/ot-canon (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/ockham/ot-canon).