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Peter Lombard


21 Nov 2004

Peter Lombard (1100-1160)

Major work

          Book of Sentences

Importance

          Organized patristic and medieval citations into a coherent statement of Christian belief

          One of the first to mention seven sacraments

          A student of Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux

          Some questioned his Christology and his view of the Trinity but 4th Lateran Council of 1215 declared his works orthodox

          Book of Sentences used in academic circles until Aquinas’s Summa came out