Peter Abelard (also spelled Abeillard, Abailard, etc., while the best MSS. ABELARD (Abaelard), PETER°ABELARD (Abaelard), PETER ° (1079–1142), French philosopher and theologian. Abelard. ... seeking to prove to him that his religion is a failure, inasmuch as the promised rewards of the Old Testament are all temporal and carnal and, with the fall of the Jewish nation, have become impossible of attainment. Cartwright, Steven Richard. Peter Abelard (/ ˈ æ b. ə. l ɑːr d /; Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; French: Pierre Abélard, pronounced [a.be.laːʁ]; c. 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian, teacher, musician, composer, poet, and preeminent logician. Peter Abelard, the 12 th-century philosopher, and theologian is considered to be the “greatest logician of the Middle Ages” and “the first great nominalist philosopher” (King, 2010, para. Leuven: Leuven University Press. In Peter Abelard. In the late 11th century and early 1100s, schools to be called universities arose in Italy, France and England for the study of arts, law, medicine, and theology. Abelard, Peter, dialectician, philosopher, and theologian, b. Peter Abelard (AD 1079–1142) served as professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Paris and was a notable scholastic theologian.Scholasticism is the discipline and method of bringing together philosophy and theology to make God and His ways understandable. Abelard was called the “troubadour of philosophy,” “knight of dialectics.” "Abelard's Trinitarian Doctrine." Proceedings of the International Conference, edited by Buytaert, Éloi Marie, 127-152. 1079; d. 1142. Literacy was rising, and the crusades made Europeans more aware of Aristotle, which disturbed some churchmen. Judaeum et Christianum (1141; published in pl, 178 (1855), 1611–82). have Abaelardus) was born in the little village of Pallet, about ten miles east of Nantes in Brittany. Peter Abelard was one of the greatest logicians and philosophers of the twelfth century renaissance and is widely known today because of his autobiographical Historia Calamitatum and the exchange of letters that followed between him and his young student Heloise who later became his lover, wife and sister in religion. 2001. Abelard went (c.1100) to Paris to study under William of Champeaux at the school of Notre Dame and soon attacked the ultrarealist position of his master with such success that William was forced to modify his teaching. The Romans Commentaries of William of St. Thierry and Peter Abelard: A Theological and Methodological Comparison, W estern Michigan University. 1). Peter Abelard: The Cross and God’s Love. ABELARD, PETER: Tweet. In this article I will explain Peter Abelard’s theory of redemption in Christ, in which Abelard portrays Christ’s death on the cross as the supreme and redeeming example of God’s love for human beings. 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