Scholastų Polemika Apie Formų Pliuralizmą Ir Neturtą Dvasioje
Polemics of Scholastics Concerning the Plurality of Forms and Powerty of Spirit

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the polemics of Western Christian thinkers of 13th and early 14th century concerning the controversial ideas of Franciscan Friar Peter Olivi, one of the most original and interesting philosophers of the later Middle Ages. Influenced by Joachimist teaching Olivi created the doctrine of Evangelical life, presented a new treatment of ascetism, powerty of spirit, hylemorphic structure of human soul, seed of mind, and intellectual emanation. He criticised the hierarchy of Franciscan order in the matters of property, exposed the conflict between the spiritual and carnal Church an by doing this he attracted both fervent followers and implacable enemies. Olivi recognized the autority of Bonaventure and opposed Latin Avveroism. He also was very sceptical as far as the applicatoion of natural reason in theology was concerned. His concept of hylomorphism was of Augustinian origin, and he maintained that the soul consisted of three different forms of which the rationl one was not the form of body. As a result Giles of Rome prepared the traetice The Errors of Peter Olivi (1312) in which he condemned 24 statements of Olivi as heretical. In 1326 pope John XXII publicly condemned Olivi’s Postilla in Apocalypsim.

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