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  Peter Lombard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Lombard was born in Lumellogno, near Novara, Italy, to a poor family.
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 genius consisted in the selection of passages, his attempt to reconcile them where they appeared to defend different viewpoints, and his arrangement of the material in a systematic order.
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 Peter Lombard
Camden's learning was great and Lombard was studious and clever and earned the praises of his master for his gentleness and docility.
Lombard was active and zealous in providing for the wants of the exiled Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, and was among those who publicly welcomed them to Rome.
Lombard also wrote a little work on the administration of the Sacrament of Penance, and in 1604 a yet unedited work, addressed to James I, in favour of religious liberty for the Irish (Bellesheim, "Gesch de Kath.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/lombard,peter.html   (616 words)

  
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Peter Lombard came to Paris in 1136, after studying under Alberic of Rheims, an old antagonist of Abelard, carrying a letter of recommendation from Bernard of Clairvaux to the abbot of St Victor.
Although she demonstrates that Peter Lombard was philosophically articulate, she does not deny that as a theologian he was opposed to those who sought to fuse secular philosophy with Christian doctrine.
Peter Lombard was aware that their ideas needed to be discussed rationally, not simply ruled out of court.
www.infomotions.com /serials/bmmr/bmmr-9507-mews-peter.txt   (2682 words)

  
 Peter Lombard [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Peter Lombard, a scholastic theologian of the twelfth century, was commonly known as "the Lombard" after his birthplace which actually was probably Novara.
Peter Lombard came into the field at a time when the now methods and their dialectical artifices were still exposed to wide-spread objection, but when the thirst for knowledge was exceedingly keen.
Peter was a man of wide reading, but the works of the Fathers had been used again and again in long catent of "sentences " which rendered it unnecessary to go to the original treatises.
www.iep.utm.edu /l/lombard.htm   (1584 words)

  
 Peter of Candia: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1384, and again in 1385, Peter is found as lector of the convent of Saint Francis of Pavia, and moved in the humanistic circles of the Visconti.
In 1402, Peter of Candia was elevated to archbishop of Milan; then in 1405, Peter was raised to the dignity of cardinal priest of the Church of the Twelve Apostles.
In 1409, the Council of Pisa elected Peter of Candia pope, and deposed Gregory XII and Benedict XIII, the rival popes.
www.ucy.ac.cy /isa/Candia/biography.htm   (338 words)

  
 Lombards - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Lombards, Germanic people, originally settled along the lower Elbe River, who invaded and conquered northern and central Italy between 568 and 572....
Lombard, village, DuPage County, northeastern Illinois, on the DuPage River, a primarily residential suburb of Chicago; settled 1833, incorporated...
Lombard, Peter (1100?-1160), Italian theologian and bishop of Paris, whose Four Books of Sentences became the standard theological text of the...
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 Lombard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The current Lombard language - a Romance language spoken in parts of Switzerland and Northern Italy, and divided into Eastern Lombard and Western Lombard.
A member of the Lombards - the Germanic tribe that dominated Austria, parts of Switzerland and most of Northern Italy from the 6th century to the 8th century.
Peter Lombard - a scholastic philosopher and bishop of the 12th century.
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 Peter Lombard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Peter Lombard, a theologian from the twelfth century, was born at Novara (or perhaps Lumello), in Italy, c.
Lombard also rejects the idea that the divine Essence begot the Son, since this would mean that the divine Essence begot Itself insofar as the Son is of the divine Essence.
In chapter three, quoting from Ambrose, Lombard says that the manner of the eternal, not the temporal generation of the Son from the Father is unknown to human intelligence, and in chapter 4, argues that the generation of the Son always is and is not to be understood as having occurred in the past.
www.abu.nb.ca /Courses/GrPhil/PhilRel/PeterLombard.htm   (7264 words)

  
 Philipp W. Rosemann - Peter Lombard - Reviewed by Constant Mews, Monash University - Philosophical Reviews - University ...
While Peter Lombard distanced himself from many of the particular views of Peter Abelard, there can be no doubting that he recognized the value of Abelard’s detailed critique of patristic writings, many of which he included in the Four Books of Sentences to provide a reasoned refutation of his interpretation of certain issues.
Lombard is aware of the need to respect such Sprachlogik, while still retaining his sense of the transcendent mystery of the incarnation, as taught by Hugh of St. Victor.
Peter Lombard was fundamentally more in continuity with patristic teaching than Peter Abelard on many issues, not least in his exposition of the last things.
ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1023   (2075 words)

  
 Peter Lombard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Peter Lombard's primary contribution to the development of medieval theology was the basic textbook, the Sentences, noted for its comprehensiveness, clear structure, and quotations from previous theologians.
On the basis of this text, Peter Lombard was known throughout the rest of the middle ages as the "Master of the Sentences." Many well-known theologians after him held the post Sententiarius in various universities, an appointment which obliged them to comment on the Sentences.
Among the first theologians to settle on the number seven for the sacraments, Peter Lombard anticipates later developments regarding the efficacy of the sacraments.
demo.lutherproductions.com /historytutor/basic/medieval/people/peter_lombard.htm   (117 words)

  
 Medieval Church.org.uk: Peter the Venerable (1092 or 1094 - 1156)
Medieval Church.org.uk: Peter the Venerable (1092 or 1094 - 1156)
At seventeen years of age Peter became a monk of Cluny, and at thirty (1122) he was elected abbot.
His rules are extant, and speak abundantly for his judgment, which was sorely tried by the return of Pontius, the previous abbot, who had been forced to go on a pilgrimage to Palestine, and resign his office.
www.medievalchurch.org.uk /p_peterven.php   (475 words)

  
 Abelard Peter: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Peter Abelard, in the twelfth century, had already...adapted during the two trials of Peter Abelard derived from earlier traditions...inquisitor.
In approximately 1119, Peter Abelard, the brilliant twelfth-century theologian, was asked by one of the canons at Notre Dame in Paris, Fulbert, to tutor...
Peter J. Leithart is Senior Fellow of Theology and Literature at New...
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/abelard-peter.jsp?l=A&p=1   (1855 words)

  
 Peter Lombard Biography / Biography of Peter Lombard Religion Biography
There is little precise knowledge of Peter Lombard's origin except that he was born in northern Italy at Lumellogno in Novarre before 1100.
Peter was a student at Bologna (or perhaps Vercelli) before he went to France to study, first in Reims and then in Paris and its environs (c.
While it is believed that he returned to Italy, visiting Rome in 1154, all of Peter Lombard's professional life and work is associated with a career in northern France, especially Paris, where he taught at the Cathedral School of Notre Dame.
www.bookrags.com /biography-peter-lombard-eorl-10   (220 words)

  
 Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy
This was to be the achievement of Peter Lombard.
Peter Lombard's Sentences was such a successful instance of the form that commenting on it became an academic requirement for the master of theology in the 13th century.
Further, while Peter is perfectly willing to dispense with the question format when he finds an issue uncontroversial or largely settled by consensus, Aquinas always places issues in the format of a question, always finds arguments on both sides of an issue.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/medieval-literary   (9485 words)

  
 HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH*
Peter the Lombard produced the most clear, and Thomas Aquinas the most complete and finished systematic bodies of divinity.
Peter had said that the Father, Son, and Spirit were "a certain highest being," and that the substance neither begets nor is begotten, nor does it proceed from anything.
Victor, who is chiefly known by his characterization of Abaelard, Gilbert of Poictiers, Peter the Lombard, and the Lombard’s pupil, Peter of Poictiers, afterwards chancellor of the University of Paris, as the four labyrinths of France.
www.ccel.org /s/schaff/history/5_ch12.htm   (17035 words)

  
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Peter Lombard: (c.1100-1160) As theologian and teacher, Peter Lombard, also called Peter the Lombard, was best known for his Book of Sentences.
Lombard required that there were words of the future, (betrothal) words of the present (saying "I do") and c onsummation, as opposed to Gratian's prerequisites of consent, affection, and consummation.
Because Lombard enjoined that words of the present, verba de praesenti, needed to be said, not just betrothal, to make a marriage valid, it was not as acceptable to casually have sex if one promised to marry one's partner.
oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~baxter/hist381/terms/peterlom.htm   (197 words)

  
 Peter Auriol
On the basis of his later career it seems reasonable to suppose that Auriol was born around 1280, and we have evidence that he originated in the region near the city of Cahors in France.
Nevertheless, especially his commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences is a treasure trove of philosophical thought spanning a vast range of issues in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of mind, natural philosophy, and ethics; it is in addition his most important and influential work.
The Peter Auriol Homepage (maintained by the author), which includes a description of the Auriol editing project, a bibliography-in-progress of Auriol studies, some Auriol texts and translations.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/auriol   (6377 words)

  
 GraciousCall.org books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Peter the Lombard did not make the mediation of the priest a requirement, but declared that confession to God was sufficient.
Peter the Lombard was the last of the prominent Schoolmen to declare that the priest did not give absolution for guilt.
The Lombard is inclined to be lenient with Adam and makes out that when he yielded to the persuasions of his wife, he was actuated by sympathy and was unwilling to give her pain by refusing her request.
www.graciouscall.org /books/history/5_ch14.htm   (15206 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Peter Lombard
The works of Peter Lombard include: (1) "Commentaries on the Psalms and St. Paul" which have come down to us in quite a number of manuscripts.
It is this theological work above all that made the name of Peter Lombard famous, and gives him a special place in the history of theology in the Middle Ages.
The exegetical work and the "Sentences" of Peter Lombard have often been printed: the commentaries upon the Epistles of St. Paul in 1474, etc.; the "Sentences" were printed in 1472 and for the last time in 1892 (Paris).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11768d.htm   (1369 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lombards
It is a street of banks and financial houses that takes its name from the Lombard merchants and moneylenders who settled there in the 13th cent.
Lombard League LOMBARD LEAGUE [Lombard League] an alliance formed in 1167 among the communes of Lombardy to resist Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I when he attempted to assert his imperial authority in Lombardy.
Elected by the Lombard dukes to end the anarchy that prevailed in Italy after the murder (572?) of Alboin (see Lombards), Authari consolidated Lombard power in N Italy and repelled several Frankish invasions instigated by the popes.
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 Marcia Colish
Lombard, who pioneered a genre of theological writing known as the sentence collection, taught theology at the Cathedral School of Notre Dame at Paris.
Colish intends her new work, "The Pseudo Peter of Poitiers Gloss on the Sentences of Peter Lombard," to be read by scholars; it will enable them to study Peter Lombard on one of the pedagogical levels on which he was taught from the mid-12th to the late-13th century.
Colish's interest in Peter Lombard began when she discovered that, despite his importance in his own age and beyond, not one book had been written about him during the 20th century.
www.oberlin.edu /news-info/99sep/marcia_colish.html   (463 words)

  
 Peter Lombard
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, better known as Magister sententiarum, the son of obscure parents, was born about the beginning of the 12th century, at Novara (then reckoned as belonging to Lombardy).
Gratian's Concordia discordantium canonum, as he called his Decretum, was another strong influence Lombard doing in a sense for theology what Gratian did for the canon law.
In 1300 the theological professors of Paris agreed in the rejection of sixteen propositions taken from Lombard, but their decision was far from obtaining universal currency.
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 History of the Christian Church, Volume V: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1049-1294. (ii.xiv.viii)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Peter the Lombard is the father of systematic theology in the Catholic Church.
The Lombard’s work is clear, compact, and sententious, moderate and judicial in spirit, and little given to the treatment of useless questions of casuistry.
The Lombard’s arguments for the divine existence are chiefly cosmological.
www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc5.ii.xiv.viii.html?bcb=0   (1714 words)

  
 Jacques Maritain Center: CE - Abelard
Peter, the oldest of their children, was intended for a military career, but, as he himself tells us, he abandoned Mars for Minerva, the profession of arms for that of learning.
Bernard now wrote to the members of the Roman Curia, with the result that Abelard had proceeded only as far as Cluny on his way to Rome when the decree of Innocent II confirming the sentence of the Council of Sens reached him.
The Venerable Peter of Cluny now took up his case, obtained from Rome a mitigation of the sentence reconciled him with St. Bernard, and gave him honourable and friendly hospitality at Cluny.
www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/abelard.htm   (2218 words)

  
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Hugh of St. Victor was a thinker, Peter Lombard a compiler only; but he was a compiler of genius, and his famous book brought it about that the right of the intelligence to use all possible means in its appreciation of revealed truth was, henceforward, accepted universally wherever theology was studied.
Peter Lombard's success, for all the merits of his work, was hardly won.
Peter, that is to say, who had not learnt, in those far off times, to show himself decked out in silks and jewellery.
www.freivald.org /~jake/church-history/historyOfTheChurch_volume2chapter7.html   (16668 words)

  
 Oxford University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Peter Lombard is best known as the author of a celebrated work entitled Book of Sentences, which for several centuries served as the standard theological textbook in the Christian West.
Its importance lies in the Lombard's organization of the theological material, his method of presentation, and the way in which he shaped doctrine in several major areas.
Despite his importance, however, there is no accessible introduction to Peter Lombard's life and thought available in any modern language.
www.oup.com /ca/isbn/0-19-515544-0   (306 words)

  
 Peter Lombard Biography / Biography of Peter Lombard Main Biography
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Peter Lombard was born at Lumellogno in the region of Novara in northern Italy.
After studying under Lutolph for 2 or 3 years, Lombard moved to Paris, where he may have attended at SteGeneviève the lectures of Peter Abelard, a long-standing enemy of Lutolph.
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