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Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, vol. 14
Petrus Abaelardus
Opera theologica VI
Sententie - Liber Sententiarum
D.E. Luscombe, J Barrow, C. Burnett, K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, C..J. Mews (eds)
- Pages: 199 p.
- Size:155 x 245 mm
- Language(s):Latin, English
- Publication Year:2007
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-03141-5
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Summary
The Sententie of Peter
Abelard (1079-1142) are the only work of his which attempts a
comprehensive summary of Christian theology. It reflects the
awareness of early twelfth-century scholars of the need to teach
theology in a more systematic way and thereby to bring to the
attention of students the main questions to be faced in intelligent
enquiry into the contents and the sources of Christian belief.
However, Abelard denied writing a book of Sentences and also
disowned the authorship of a book of Sentences which was judged to
contain his heretical teaching at the council of Sens in 1140. In
this volume are presented the versions of a book of Sentences that
was written by a student or students of Abelard towards the end of
his teaching career, and a reconstruction of the parts of a
Liber sententiarum magistri Petri from which Abelard's
critics copied excerpts. In an introduction the authorship,
composition and contents of these texts is examined in detail. The
edition of the Sententie is designed to show the varying
versions of these and of other reports of Abelard's teaching,
reports that combine written and oral sources. David Luscombe is
responsible for this volume which owes much also to the generous
collaboration of assistants in the University of Sheffield, namely
J. Barrow, C. Burnett, K. Keats-Rohan and C. Mews.