The Story of a Great Medieval Book: Peter Lombard's 'Sentences'

by Philipp W. Rosemann

Peter Lombard, a twelfth-century theologian, authored one of the first Western textbooks of theology, the Book of Sentences. Here, Lombard logically arranged all of the major topics of the Christian faith. His Book of Sentences received the largest number of commentaries among all works of Christian literature except for Scripture itself. Now, notable Lombard scholar Philipp W. Rosemann examines this text as a guiding thread to studying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551117185
• ISBN13: 9781551117188
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.3"