Category:Amaury de Chartres

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Amaury de Chartres (1204-1207) [[1]]

Amaury, also known as Amaury de Bene, was a French theologian at the University of Paris who, according to James Thrower, taught that "God is identical with all that is, even evil . . . There is no other life, and man's fulfillment, therefore, must be in this life alone."

Amaury was a teacher of logic who wrote Physion, which was condemned by a bull of Pope Innocent III (1204). Amaury is said to have taught a kind of pantheism and held that the reign of the Father and Son must give place to that of the Holy Spirit. He maintained that the sacraments were useless and that there is no other heaven than the satisfaction of doing right, nor is there any other hell than ignorance and sin. Ten of his disciples were burned in Paris in 1210, and his own bones were exhumed and thrown into the flames. {BDF}