Abelard, Peter
Abelard, Peter ( 1079 – 1142 ),a native of Brittany, a brilliant disputant and lecturer at the schools of Ste Geneviève and Notre-Dame in Paris, where John of Salisbury was among his pupils. He was an advocate of rational theological enquiry, and his Sic et Non could be regarded as the first text in scholastic theology (see Scholasticism ). He was primarily a dialectician rather than a theologian, though his theological views were declared heretical by the Council of Sens ( 1142 ) where he was vigorously opposed by St Bernard . He was a student of Roscelin , who is noted as the first Nominalist and against whose views Abelard reacted. The pre-eminence of the University of Paris in the 12th cent. owes much to Abelard's popularity as a teacher. He fell in love with Héloïse , the niece of Fulbert, a canon of Notre-Dame in whose house he lodged; she was a woman of learning and Abelard's pupil. Their love...
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