Sentences lecture

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In the late Middle Ages, the sentence reading was an integral part of the academic career of aspiring theologians.

In the middle of the 12th century, Petrus Lombardus put together a collection of quotes and doctrines from earlier church fathers, divided into four books. Its origin in Paris, where the most important faculty of theological scholasticism was soon to develop at the Sorbonne , favored its success, as did the outcome of a dispute between Peter and Joachim von Fiore about the doctrine of the Trinity: At the fourth Lateran Council in 1215, Pope Innocent III condemned Innocent III . the teaching of Joachim and expressly approved the position of Peter Lombardus in his sentences . The collection of sentences subsequently became one of the most successful textbooks in theology.

Alexander von Hales is said to have been one of the first to give a lecture based on the sentences after 1220. Since that time, a lecture on the work of Lombardus has developed into a compulsory program on the way to a doctorate or master's degree in theology. It usually formed the first independent lecture and often a work that was fundamental to further thinking ( Albertus Magnus , Bonaventure , Thomas Aquinas , Johannes Duns Scotus , Wilhelm von Ockham ). Since not only every future theologian had to give a sentence lecture, but also every student had to listen to one, there is a large number of mostly handwritten sentence comments .

The sentence lectures were held until the 16th century - u. a. by Martin Luther , of whom records from the lecture year 1509/1510 in Erfurt have been preserved.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Volker Leppin: Wilhelm von Ockham. Scholar, warrior, beggar monk , scientist. Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2003, p. 35ff
  2. ↑ Werner Dettloff: Alexander Halesius . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie 2 (1978), 245
  3. ^ Volker Leppin: Wilhelm von Ockham. Scholar, warrior, beggar monk , scientist. Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2003, p. 37