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Peter Lombard at work[1]
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Sententiae
Peter LombardFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Lombard, Peter the Lombard[2][3]
or Petrus
Lombardus,[4]
(c. 1096, Novara, Lombardy[3][5][6]
– 21/22 August
1164, Paris, France[3][5][6]) was a scholastic theologian and bishopand author of Four Books of Sentences, which became the standard
textbook of theology, for which he earned the accolade Magister
Sententiarum.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Peter Lombard's career
2.1 Writings3 Doctrine
4 Notes
5 English translation
6 External links
7 Bibliography
Biography
Peter Lombard was born in Lumellogno[7] (then a rural commune, now a quartiere of Novara,Piedmont), in northwestern Italy, to a poor family.
[8] His date of birth was likely between 1095 and
1100.
His education most likely began in Italy at the cathedral schools of Novara and Lucca. The patronage of
Odo, bishop of Lucca, who recommended him to Bernard of Clairvaux, allowed him to leave Italy and
further his studies at Reims and Paris. Petrus Lombardus studied first in the cathedral school at Reims,
where Magister Alberich and Lutolph of Novara were teaching, and arrived in Paris about 1134,[9]
where Bernard recommended him[10]
to the canons of the church of St-Victor. In Paris, where he spent
the next decade teaching at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, he came into contact with Peter Abelard
and Hugh of St. Victor, who were among the leading theologians of the time. There are no proven factsrelating to his whereabouts in Paris until 1142 when he became recognized as writer and teacher. Around
1145, Peter became a "magister", or professor, at the cathedral school of Notre Dame in Paris. Peter's
means of earning a living before he began to derive income as a teacher and from his canon's prebend is
shrouded in uncertainty.
Peter Lombard's career
Peter Lombard
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Lombard, Peter the Lombard[2][3] or Petrus Lombardus,[4] (c. 1096,
Novara [1], Lombardy [2][3][5][6] – 21/22 August 1164, Paris [3], France [4][3][5][6])
was a scholastic theologian [5] and bishop [6] and author of Four Books of
Sentences [7] , which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he
earned the accolade [8] Magister Sententiarum.
Biography[edit source [9]edit [10]]
Peter Lombard was born in Lumellogno [11][7] (then a rural commune, now a
quartiere of Novara [12], Piedmont [13]), in northwestern Italy [14], to a poor
family.[8] His date of birth was likely between 1095 and 1100.
His education most likely began in Italy at the cathedral schools [15] of Novara
[16] and Lucca. The patronage of Odo, bishop of Lucca [17], who recommended
him to Bernard of Clairvaux [18], allowed him to leave Italy and further his
studies at Reims [19] and Paris [20]. Petrus Lombardus studied first in the
cathedral school at Reims [21], where Magister Alberich and Lutolph of Novara
were teaching, and arrived in Paris about 1134,[9] where Bernard recommended
him[10] to the canons of the church of St-Victor. In Paris, where he spent the
next decade teaching at the cathedral school of Notre Dame[22]
, he came intocontact with Peter Abelard [23] and Hugh of St. Victor [24], who were among the
leading theologians of the time. There are no proven facts relating to his
whereabouts in Paris until 1142 when he became recognized as writer and
teacher. Around 1145, Peter became a "magister", or professor, at the cathedral
school of Notre Dame [25] in Paris. Peter's means of earning a living before he
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Lombard's style of teaching gained quick acknowledgment. It can be surmised that this attention is what
prompted the canons of Notre Dame to ask him to join their ranks. He was considered a celebrated
theologian by 1144. The Parisian school of canons had not included among their number a theologian of
high regard for some years. The canons of Notre Dame, to a man, were members of the Capetian
dynasty, relatives of families closely aligned to the Capetians by blood or marriage, scions of the Ile-de-
France or eastern Loire Valley nobility, or relatives of royal officials. In contrast, Peter had no relatives,
ecclesiastical connections, and no political patrons in France. It seems that he must have been invited bythe canons of Notre Dame solely for his academic merit.
He became a subdeacon in 1147. Possibly he was present at the consistory of Paris in 1147, and certainly
he attended the Council of Reims in 1148, where Pope Eugenius III was present at the synod, which
examined Gilbert de la Porrée and Eon de l'Estoile. Peter was among the signers of the act condemning
Gilbert's teachings.[11]
At some time after 1150 he became a deacon, then an archdeacon, maybe as early
as 1152. He was ordained priest some time before 1156. In 1159, he was named bishop of Paris. A
hostile witness, Walter of St Victor, accused Peter of obtaining the office by simony,[12]
though he had
no source of income. The more usual story is that Philip, younger brother of Louis VII. and archdeacon
of Notre-Dame, was elected by the canons but declined in favor of Peter, his teacher. Peter was
consecrated at the feast of SS. Peter and Paul, 28 July 1159.
His reign as bishop was brief.[13]
He died on either 21 or 22 July 1160. Little can be ascertained about
Lombard's administrative style or objectives because he left behind so few episcopal acta. He was
succeeded by Maurice de Sully, the builder of the Cathedral of Notre Dame.[14]
His tomb in the church
of Saint-Marcel in Paris was destroyed during the French Revolution, but a transcription of his epitaph
survives.
Writings
Peter Lombard wrote commentaries on the Psalms and the Pauline epistles; however, his most famouswork by far was Libri Quatuor Sententiarum, or the Four Books of Sentences, which became the
standard textbook of theology at the medieval universities.[15] From the 1220s until the 16th century, no
work of Christian literature, except for the Bible itself, was commented upon more frequently. All the
major medieval thinkers, from Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas to William of Ockham and Gabriel
Biel, were influenced by it. Even the young Martin Luther still wrote glosses on the Sentences, and John
Calvin quoted from it over 100 times in his Institutes.
Though the Four Books of Sentences formed the framework upon which four centuries of scholastic
interpretation of Christian dogma was based, rather than a dialectical work itself, the Four Books of
Sentences is a compilation of biblical texts, together with relevant passages from the Church Fathers and
many medieval thinkers, on virtually the entire field of Christian theology as it was understood at thetime. Peter Lombard's magnum opus stands squarely within the pre-scholastic exegesis of biblical
passages, in the tradition of Anselm of Laon, who taught through quotations from authorities.[16]
It
stands out as the first major effort to bring together commentaries on the full range of theological issues,
arrange the material in a systematic order, and attempt to reconcile them where they appeared to defend
different viewpoints. The Sentences starts with the Trinity in Book I, moves on to creation in Book II,
treats Christ, the saviour of the fallen creation, in Book III, and deals with the sacraments, which
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mediate Christ's grace, in Book IV.
Doctrine
Peter Lombard's most famous and most controversial doctrine in the Sentences was his identification of
charity with the Holy Spirit in Book I, distinction 17. According to this doctrine, when the Christian
loves God and his neighbour, this love literally is God; he becomes divine and is taken up into the life of the Trinity. This idea was never declared unorthodox, but few theologians have been prepared to follow
Peter Lombard in his audacious teaching. Compare Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Deus Caritas Est ,
2006.
Also in the Sentences was the doctrine that marriage was consensual and need not be consummated to be
considered perfect, unlike Gratian's analysis (see sponsalia de futuro). Lombard's interpretation was later
endorsed by Pope Alexander III, and had a significant impact on Church interpretation of marriage.
Notes
^ Prof. Harold Tarrant & Prof. Godfrey Tanner(2001). The Cultural Collections Unit: 2nd Edition. University of Newcastle, Australia.
1.
^ Milman, Henry Hart (1857). History of LatinChristianity: Vol.VI . London.
2.
^a b c W. and R. Chambers (1864). Chambers's
encyclopædia: Vol.VI . London.3.
^ Baur, Ferdinand Christian (1858). Lehrbuch derchristlichen Dogmengeschichte. Tübingen.
4.
^a b Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1836).
Werke: Vol.XV . Berlin.5.
^ a b Ginsburg, Christian David (1861). Coheleth;commonly called The book of Ecclesiastes.London.
6.
^ Hödl, in Biografisch-BibliografischesKirchenlexikon.
7.
^ The few known facts of Peter's life are8.
presented in Philippe Delhaye, Pierre Lombard:sa vie, ses œuvres, sa morale (Paris/Montreal)1961.^ Hödl9.^ In a surviving letter, Ep. 410, Opera omniaviii.391, noted by Hödl
10.
^ Hödl.11.^ In his polemic Contra quatuor labyrinthosFranciae II.4.
12.
^ His successor, Maurice de Sully, was bishop bythe end of 1160.
13.
^ "Peter Lombard". Catholic Encyclopedia.
New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
14.
^ Joseph Rickaby (1908). Scholasticism. A.Constable. p. 23.
15.
^ This is a central point of Delhaye 1961, whosees Abelard, rather than Peter, as the founder of scholasticism.
16.
English translation
The Sentences. Book 1: The Mystery of the Trinity. Translated by Giulio Silano. Toronto,
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS), 2007. LVIIII, 278 pp. ISBN 978-0-88844-292-5
The Sentences. Book 2: On Creation. Translated by Giulio Silano. Toronto, PIMS, 2008. XLVI,236 pp. ISBN 978-0-88844-293-2
The Sentences. Book 3: On the Incarnation of the Word . Translated by Giulio Silano. Toronto,
PIMS, 2008. XLVIII, 190 pp. ISBN 978-0-88844-295-6
The Sentences. Book 4: The Doctrine of Signs. Translated by Giulio Silano. Toronto, PIMS, 2010.
336 pp. ISBN 978-0-88844-296-3
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External links
"Peter Lombard (1095–1160)" (http://www.iep.utm.edu/lombard/) article in the Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Ludwig Hödl (1993). "Lombardus, Petrus" (http://www.bbkl.de/l/lombardus.shtml). In Bautz,
Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 5. Herzberg:
Bautz. cols. 197–202. ISBN 3-88309-043-3."Peter Lombard Magister Sententiarum" (http://www.franciscan-archive.org/lombardus/) Texts
and further links.
Peter Lombard's Book of Sentences (http://www.franciscan-archive.org/lombardus/I-Sent.html) in
parallel Latin English (Book I)
Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries
(http://129.15.14.63/galleries/03Medieval/Lombard/) High resolution images of works by Peter
Lombard in .jpg and .tiff format.
Bibliography
Colish, Marcia L. Peter Lombard . 2 Vols. New York: E.J. Brill, 1994.
Delhaye, Philippe. Pierre Lombard: sa vie, ses œuvres, sa morale. Paris/Montreal: 1961.
Herlihy, David. Medieval Households. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1985.
Rosemann, Philipp W. Peter Lombard . New York: Oxford UP, 2004.
Rosemann, Philipp W. The Story of a Great Medieval Book: Peter Lombard's "Sentences" .
Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2007.
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