William of Ockham on Continuation of spiritual gifts
The question is not framed in these terms
This locus asks in categories that came later. Assigning a stance would answer on the figure's behalf, so the summary records what was addressed instead.
THE POSITION
Anachronistic. The continuationist and cessationist positions are shaped by a post-Reformation argument about whether the miraculous gifts ceased with the apostles; the question is not put in these terms in his period.
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 Continuation of spiritual gifts", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/ockham/spiritual-gifts (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/ockham/spiritual-gifts).