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Chapter Fourteen: Faith, Reason and the Trinity
1 See Moore, especially Chapter One.
2 See Roach, especially Chapter Four.
3 Brower and Guilfoy reflects the renewed interest in Abelard’s intellectual
achievements. Chapter One, ‘Life, milieu and intellectual contexts’, by John
Marenbon is especially useful.
4 Clanchy, p.110.
5 Abelard, Theologica Christiana, 3.164. Quoted in Chapter 7, ‘Trinity’, by
Jeffrey E. Brower, in Brower and Guilfoy, p.226.
6 The first quotation is from Roach, p.53. See ibid., pp.52-6, for the conflict
between Abelard and Bernard. The quotation of Bernard’s about ‘scanning the
heavens’ is to be found in Clanchy, p.25.
7 Quoted in David Luscombe, ‘Thought and Learning’, Chapter Twelve in
Luscombe and Riley-Smith, p.496.
8 Grant, p.537.
9 An extract on this theme from Aquinas’ first major theological work Summa
Contra Gentiles, 1-47, is to be found in Helm, p.106.
10 It was the fifth century BC philosopher Protagoras who had said, ‘Concerning
the gods, I am unable to discover whether they exist or not, or what they are like
in form: for there are many hindrances to knowledge, the obscurity of the subject
and the brevity of human life.’ The contrast with the orthodoxy that evolved in
Christianity was obvious, notably in the rise of the concept of ‘faith’ as an
accepted body of doctrine that could not be supported by human reason.
11 These ideas and quotations are drawn from Davies, Chapter Ten, ‘The Eternal
Triangle’.
12 Dante, The Divine Comedy, Paradise, Canto XXIV, lines 139-41 in the
translation by Charles Sissons, Oxford, 1980.
13 Pelikan, Credo, p.227
14 Diarmaid MacCulloch, pp.184-8.