The Catholic Historical Review, October 1st, 2007
Peter Lombard. By Philipp W Rosemann. [Great Medieval Thinkers. ] (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 272. Paperback.)
With this volume, Philipp Rosemann has produced a very readable introduction to Peter Lombard, master of theology and then Bishop of Paris (d. 1160), and his Four Books of Sentences, a work that became the central textbook of Christian theology for several centuries. He argues perceptively and persuasively that the genius of the Lombard's work lay in its method, its organization, its completeness, and in its humility in addressing the mysteries of the faith.
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