How To Use Abelard In A Sentence
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Abelard's new-Adoptionism was condemned, at least in its fundamental principles, by Alexander III, in a rescript dated 1177:
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Charcot, indeed, it is said, used to declare that the only anaphrodisiac in which he had any confidence was that used by the uncle of Heloïse in the case of Abelard.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
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Abelard draws the conclusion that intentionality is a primitive and irreducible feature of the mind, our acts of attending to things.
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Abelard is credited with the introduction of theology as a critical discipline in Christianity.
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The name Paraclete as applied to the Holy Ghost meant the Consoler, the Comforter, the Spirit of Love and Grace; as applied to the oratory by Abelard it meant a renewal of his challenge to theologists, a separation of the Persons in the Trinity, a vulgarization of the mystery; and, as his story frankly says, it was so received by many.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
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Two star-crossed medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, are again stirring passions in France as a literary controversy rages nearly 900 years after their affair.
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So when we got all this information from Abelard, about Golly and what a bad lad he was, we stooged over to Rupert Street, hoping to have a word with Golly, or maybe Lavender.
Bottled Spider
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Roughly, we have (1) the adoptionism of Elipandus and Felix in the eighth century; (2) the Neo-Adoptionism of Abelard in the twelfth century; (3) the qualified Adoptionism of some theologians from the fourteenth century on.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Abelard defends his thesis that universals are nothing but words by arguing that ontological realism about universals is incoherent.
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In the 12th century, writers such as Abelard and Alan of Lille composed dialogues, allegories, axiomatic works, disputations, and summae, but the next two centuries were dominated by the forms of commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences, various forms of the disputed question, and the summa.
Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy
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After his recovery, Abelard resumed teaching at a nearby priory, primarily on theology and in particular on the Trinity.
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Abelard is chiefly remembered for advocating the so-called ‘moral influence’ theory of the atonement.
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Ignotus pecori, 'as eulogised by the virgin-chorus in the beautiful epithalamium of Catullus, might be recognised in the youthful' religieuse 'if only human passion could be excluded; but the story of Heloise and Abelard is not a solitary proof of the superiority of human nature over an impossible and artificial spirituality.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
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The St. Jude Project, Robert Weingart as reformed recidivist, Kermit Abelard as egalitarian poet, Timothy Abelard as the tragic oligarch stricken by a divine hand for defying the natural order, Layton Blanchet as the working-class entrepreneur who amassed millions of dollars through his intelligence and his desire to help small investors, a historic Acadian cottage that hid a barracoon.
The Glass Rainbow
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Upon returning to Paris, Abelard became scholar-in-residence at Notre Dame, a position he held until his romantic entanglement with Héloïse led to his castration, at which point he entered the Benedictine monastery of Saint Denis and Héloïse entered the convent of Argenteuil.
Peter Abelard
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Abelard also distinguished between determinateness and certainty.
Medieval Theories of Future Contingents
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What is evident is that for years she was tormented by physical longing for Abelard.
Words Of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath
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As the truck crossed the two-lane and turned onto the wood bridge that spanned the moat around the Abelard house, Clete memorized the tag and dialed a number on his cell phone.
The Glass Rainbow
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Abelard found the monks of Saint Gilda's difficult and obstructive - even dangerous - and he claims that there were several attempts on his life while in residence.
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Except for the automobiles and pickup trucks parked in the dirt yards, the quarters owned by the Abelard family had changed little since they were carpentered together in the 1880s.
The Glass Rainbow
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Abelard defends his thesis that universals are nothing but words by arguing that ontological realism about universals is incoherent.
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Abelard also wrote a slight work of practical advice for his son.
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He became abusive; Abelard was a crawling viper (coluber tortuosus) who had come out of his hole (egressus est de caverna sua), and after the manner of a hydra (in similitudinem hydrae), after having one head cut off at Soissons, had thrown out seven more.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
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Subsequently, Heloise was sent to a nunnery and Abelard to a monastery, but not before he was castrated for his sins against Fulbert's niece.
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Were Heloise and Abelard just another pair of star-crossed lovers, consumed by a passion that was doomed to end in tragedy?
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Abelard is credited with the introduction of theology as a critical discipline in Christianity.
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Second, Abelard undertakes to establish that contraries will be present not merely in the genus but even in the selfsame individual.
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Put in modern terms, Abelard holds a theory of direct reference, in which the extension of a term is not a function of its sense.
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Based on a careful understanding of his main work on universals: Logica ingredientibus, the present paper tries to give a systematical account of Abelard's philosophical thoughts of nominalism.
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The monks opposed Abelard and convinced the Church to condemn him - twice - and the papacy periodically fulminated against the rationalist discourse carried out in [his university] classrooms.
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St. Gildas, in the twelfth century, had Abelard for superior, who, on his appointment, made over to Eloise the celebrated abbey he had founded at Nogent, near Troyes, which he called the Paraclete or Comforter, because he there found comfort and refreshment after his troubles, but his peace soon ended on his arrival in Brittany.
Brittany & Its Byways
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What distinguished certain polemics from the purely theological discussions of the period (Abelard, Peter Lombard, Peter the Chanter, Robert of Courson, Guido de Orchellis) was the occasional explicit acknowledgment of real anxiety over the potential death of the child.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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What is evident is that for years she was tormented by physical longing for Abelard.
Words Of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath
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Abelard was a famous teacher and Heloise, 22 years his junior.
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It never failed to amaze her that the scholars about her could discuss the hetairai of the Greeks, Tristan and Isolde, Abelard and Heloise, and the loves of the girls on the Isle of Lesbos, and then blush with shame when one even mentioned the existence of certain establishments not more than a dozen blocks from the University.
Red dust
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Roughly, we have (1) the adoptionism of Elipandus and Felix in the eighth century; (2) the Neo-Adoptionism of Abelard in the twelfth century; (3) the qualified Adoptionism of some theologians from the fourteenth century on.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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My three recommendations (all repeats of what others have said) are the Musee Cluny (the medieval museum), Pere Lachaise Cemetary (Abelard and Heloise's grave is the best), and the Catacombs.
What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
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The title of his film comes from Alexander Pope's poem ‘Eloisa to Abelard’, and the stanza goes: ‘How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
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Similarly, the medieval age of courtly love would have understood the notion of Christ the lover offering himself sacrificially, as seen in the relationship between Abelard and Heloise.