Historia Calamitatum - The Story Of My Misfortunes by Peter Abelard

Historia Calamitatum - The Story Of My Misfortunes by Peter Abelard

Author:Peter Abelard [Abelard, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion
ISBN: 9783849623685
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2012-09-28T00:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER IX - OF HIS BOOK ON THEOLOGY AND HIS PERSECUTION AT THE HANDS OF HIS FELLOW STUDENTS OF THE COUNCIL AGAINST HIM

IT SO happened that at the outset I devoted myself to analysing the basis of our faith through illustrations based on human understanding, and I wrote for my students a certain tract on the unity and trinity of God. This I did because they were always seeking for rational and philosophical explanations, asking rather for reasons they could understand than for mere words, saying that it was futile to utter words which the intellect could not possibly follow, that nothing could be believed unless it could first be understood, and that it was absurd for any one to preach to others a thing which neither he himself nor those whom he sought to teach could comprehend. Our Lord Himself maintained this same thing when He said: "They are blind leaders of the blind" (Matthew, xv. 14).



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