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Ecologists tell us that periodic wildfires, though devastating, are necessary to the rhythm of nature. The death of the old allows something new to grow, sometimes straight back from the charred roots. Christian tradition functions much the same way, says Philipp Rosemann. In this book he examines how transgression and destruction are crucial in the foundation and preservation of tradition. Theories of tradition have emphasized the handing-dow...

Peter Lombard is best known as the author of a celebrated work entitled Book of Sentences, which for several centuries served as the standard theological textbook in the Christian West. It was the subject of more commentaries than any other work of Christian literature besides the Bible itself. The Book of Sentences is essentially a compilation of older sources, from the Scriptures and Augustine down to several of the Lombard's contemporaries,...

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Peter Lombard is best-known as the author of a celebrated work entitled Book of Sentences. For several centuries, it served as the standard theological textbook in the Christian West, and was the subject of more commentaries than any other work of Christian literature besides the Bible itself. Despite his importance, however, there is no accessible introduction to Peter Lombard's life and thought available in any modern language. This volume f...

The focus of the contributions to this third and final volume of Brill's handbook on the tradition of the Book of Sentences ranges from a thirteenth-century study aid to the role of the Sentences in sixteenth-century Iberia.

In this book, Philipp Rosemann provides a new introduction to scholastic thought written from a contemporary and, notably, Foucauldian perspective. In taking inspiration from the methodology of historical research developed by Foucault, the book places the intellectual achievements of the thirteenth century and, especially, Thomas Aquinas, in a larger cultural and institutional framework. Rosemann's analysis sees the Scholastic tradition as th...

Broadly conceived and accessibly written." - Marcia L. Colish, Visiting Fellow, Yale University