Luscombe, D.E., ed.; Barrow, J, ed.; Burnett, C., ed.; Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., ed.; Mews, C.J., ed. , Petrus Abelardus Opera Theologica VI Sententie Librum Sententiarum (Turnhout: Brepols [Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 14], 2007). ISBN: 2147483647
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Number of pages of primary source text: 170

Medieval Author(s): Abelard, Peter

Dates: 1120 - 1150

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Original Language(s): Latin;

Translation: Original language included.

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Apparatus: Index Bibliography Introduction

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Peter Abelard was a philosopher, teacher, theologian, and logician, and considered to be one of the greatest thinkers of the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, he was known for his contributions to scholastic philosophy: his ideas of dialectic provide some of the basis of scholasticism. He was a well-respected teacher at the University of Paris: students flocked to Paris to hear his lectures. Some of his theological ideas about the Trinity were challenged and condemned by the Church. This volume contains an edition of Abelard’s Sentences (Sententie) and of the shorter Liber Sententiarum (Book of Sentences), academic texts which provide theological opinions for students’ use. This edition also includes indices of scriptural citations, sources, parallel passages in the two works.

Introduction Summary:

The editor’s lengthy (109 pp) introduction provides a brief overview of the 12th-century genre of sentence collections and their place in the teaching of theology. The editor considers the sentences of Peter Abelard in their many versions, noting its relationship to Abelard’s more complete Sic et Non. He also provides a discussion of the manuscripts in which the texts survive, and upon which this edition is based.

Cataloger: MCB