HIST-102 Lecture 50: Bernard of Clairvaux
14 Oct 2020
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The anti-abelard of the 12th century was him. He was arguably the most important thinker of the entire century. He was a promising student of philosophy and theology in the world of high medieval intellectual life. He was reticent to go too far into the direction of subjecting the articles of faith to supposed rationalization. "by doubting, we come to inquiry; through inquiry, we come to the truth. " He preferred to stick with the old mottos of anselm and augustine, according to which faith, not doubt, was the ground of reason. In the context of the 12th century, his approach became more dominant than that of abelard. Abelard"s approach in sic et non lived on by way of textbooks like lombard"s, bernard became personally revered. In dante"s divine comedy, the paradiso culminates with bernard helping dante ascent to the realm of the beatific vision.
