The Sentences: Book 4: On the Doctrine of Signs

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 influential) receive extensive discussion. The last eight Distinctions are given over to a treatment of the last things: the bodily resurrection, purgation, hell, the last judgement, and eternity. The Book concludes with a reference to a text of Isaias that serves as an allegory of the function and purpose of the Sentences as a whole.

Author: Peter Lombard
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: PIMS
Published: 09/01/2010
Series: Mediaeval Sources in Translation #48
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780888442963
4th Edition