{"id":491,"date":"2013-03-10T23:51:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T04:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=491"},"modified":"2013-03-11T10:15:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T15:15:04","slug":"luther-discusses-lombard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/03\/10\/luther-discusses-lombard\/","title":{"rendered":"Luther Discusses Lombard"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Peter Lombard was adequate as a theologian; none has been his equal.\u00a0 He read Hilary, Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory, and also all the councils.\u00a0 He was a great man.\u00a0 If he had by chance come upon the Bible he would no doubt have been the greatest.”\u00a0 Martin Luther, “Judgment Concerning Peter Lombard,” Table Talk no. 192, Luther\u2019s Works<\/em>, volume 54, p. 26.<\/p>\n

As a Lutheran who studies the Middle Ages, this is one of my favorite quotes.\u00a0 Dr. Luther’s statements recorded in Table Talk reflect his ability to be humorous and sarcastic to make a point.\u00a0 Peter Lombard wrote the Sentences<\/em> in middle of the twelfth century.\u00a0 This book became the most siginificant work of scholastic theology that every theologian studied in great detail.\u00a0 Luther studied and\u00a0taught Lombard’s Sentences<\/em>\u00a0and maintained a\u00a0respect for Peter Lombard but continued to\u00a0note Lombard’s lack of real biblical\u00a0understanding.<\/p>\n

“Peter Lombard was a very diligent man with a superior mind.\u00a0 He wrote many excellent things.\u00a0 He would really have been a great doctor of the church if he had given himself wholly and truly to the Holy Scriptures, but he confuses the Scriptures with many useless quotations.” Martin Luther, “Evaluation of Peter Lombard and His Work,” Table Talk no. 3698, Luther’s Works<\/em>, volume 54,\u00a0p. 260.<\/p>\n

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“Peter Lombard was adequate as a theologian; none has been his equal.\u00a0 He read Hilary, Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory, and also all the councils.\u00a0 He was a great man.\u00a0 If he had by chance come upon the Bible he would no … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martin-luther-history","category-peter-lombard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}