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G. R. Evans, Guillelmi Aluerni Opera Homiletica. Tomus I. Sermones de tempore, I–CXXXV. Edited by Franco Morenzoni., The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 62, Issue 1, April 2011, Pages 377–378, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flq157
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William of Auvergne, a controversial and interventionist bishop of Paris from 1228 to 1249, was a theologian in the University of Paris in the crucial years of the emergence of the Ars Praedicandi. So these sermons provide a test-bed in which we can see the genre forming. Here, too, is a preacher whose development of his homiletic skills lay largely outside the influence of the mendicant orders, which were to make preaching their speciality.
William was a prolific academic author as well as a preacher. His familiarity with Arabic learning and even the Koran is especially notable. His canonry at Notre Dame from at least 1223 must have directed his mind to the ordinary pastoral needs of the faithful as well as to the special requirements of occasional university sermons, but he did not refrain from theologizing. His emphasis is often on doctrine as much as on the practical living of the Christian life.
