Based on a wide investigation of the theological works of the later fourteenth century, this paper argues that the Franciscan John of Ripa was the most significant theologian whose activities date to the period between the Black Death and the Great Schism. After his Parisian Sentences lectures of the mid-1350s, Ripa’s theories were copied, paraphrased, abbreviated, analyzed, adopted, or attacked not only by his confrères among the Friars Order, but also by secular theologians and members of the Augustinian, Carmelite, Cistercian, Victorine, Servite, and Trinitarian Orders at Paris. This paper first surveys this reception, focusing on the Sorbonne theologian Étienne Gaudet’s version of a number of Ripa’s questions and the reception of Ripa in the Augustinian John Hiltalingen of Basel, then presents the analysis of Ripa’s ideas by the franciscan Peter of Candia (Pope Alexander V), and concludes with an appendix on two fifteenth-century abbreviations, one by the famous Augustinian olymath Paul of Venice.