The Sentences: Book 4: On the Doctrine of Signs

by Peter Lombard

The principal signs and instruments of grace available to Christians as a result of Christ's redeeming work are the sacraments of the Church - baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, penance, extreme unction, holy orders, and marriage. These are the main subjects of Book 4 of the Sentences , comprising forty-two of its fifty Distinctions. In particular, penance and marriage (with regard to which the Lombard's consensual theory was to prove extremely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888442963
• ISBN13: 9780888442963
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: PIMS
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"