Sentences
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The Four Books of Sentences (Libri Quattuor Sententiarum) is a compendium of theology written by Peter Lombard around 1150.
Origin and characteristics
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The Book of Sentences had its precursor in the
Lombard arranged his material from the Bible and the Church Fathers in four books, then subdivided this material further into chapters. Probably between 1223 and 1227, Alexander of Hales grouped the many chapters of the four books into a smaller number of "distinctions". In this form, the book was widely adopted as a theological textbook in the high and late Middle Ages (the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries). A commentary on the Sentences was required of every master of theology, and was part of the examination system. At the end of lectures on Lombard's work, a student could apply for bachelor status within the theology faculty.
The importance of the Sentences to medieval theology and philosophy lies to a significant extent in the overall framework they provide to theological and philosophical discussion. All the great scholastic thinkers, such as
See also
- Minuscule 714 – the manuscript of the New Testament and of sententiae
Editions
Standard modern translation into English
- Peter Lombard, The Sentences, Books 1–4. translator, Giulio Silano, 4 vols. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2007–2010).
- Book 1: The Mystery of the Trinity
- Book 2: On Creation
- Book 3: On the Incarnation of the Word
- Book 4: On the Doctrine of Signs
Further reading
- Elizabeth Frances Rogers, Peter Lombard and the Sacramental System (Merrick, NY: Richwood Pub. Co., 1976).
- Philipp W. Rosemann, Peter Lombard (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
- Philipp W. Rosemann, The Story of a Great Medieval Book: Peter Lombard's "Sentences" (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).
External links
- Les Sentences - Pierre LOMBARD - Magister Sententiarum
- Various commentaries, and a partial English translation of The Four Books of the Sentences itself
- (in Latin) Textus Sententiarum (Patrologie Latine, 192, col. 519-964)
- (in Latin) Textus Sententiarum: cum conclusionibus magistri Henrici Gorichem (1502 Edition, by Bavarian State Library digital)
- (in Latin) Libri Quattuor Sententiarum
- Page from the Logic Museum about the Book of Sentences.
- (in Latin) Scriptum super Sententiis by St. Thomas Aquinas (complete)