This volume makes available for the first time in English full translations of Book 1 of Peter Lombard's Sentences, the work that would win the greatest teacher of the twelfth century a place in Dante's Paradise and would continue to excite generations of students well beyond the Middle Ages.

The Sentences Book 1: The Mystery of the Trinity (Mediaeval Sources in Translation)

History

Peter Lombard

Europe

PIMS

This volume makes available for the first time in English full translations of Book 2 of the Sentences. It consists of forty-four Distinctions and contains an introduction to Book 2, a list of the major chapter headings, and a bibliography.

The Sentences Book 2: On Creation (Mediaeval Sources in Translation)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Book 3 of the Sentences deals with the mystery of the Word made flesh: Christ's incarnation, passion, and death, the consequent restoration of humankind, and the virtues to be practised in imitation of Christ.

The Sentences Book 3: On the Incarnation of the Word (Mediaeval Sources in Translation)

The principal signs and instruments of grace available to Christians as a result of Christ's redeeming work are the sacraments of the Church - baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, penance, extreme unction, holy orders, and marriage. These are the main subjects of Book 4 of the Sentences, comprising forty-two of its fifty Distinctions. In particular, penance and marriage (with regard to which the Lombard's consensual theory was to prove extremely influential) receive extensive discussion. The last eight Distinctions are given over to a treatment of the last things: the bodily resurrection, purgation, hell, the last judgement, and eternity. The Book concludes with a reference to a text of Isaias that serves as an allegory of the function and purpose of the Sentences as a whole.

The Sentences, Book 4: On the Doctrine of Signs (Mediaeval Sources in Translation)

Petri Lombardi Episcopi Parisiensis Sententiarum: Libri IIII (Classic Reprint)

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