Quotes:Lombard, Peter

Zirkoff, Boris

Lombard, Peter. Noted Italian scholastic theologian, deriving his name from the province where he was born, near Novara, in Lombardy, at about the opening of the 12th century. Studied at Bologna, Reims and Paris; here he acquired great reputation becoming professor of Theology at the University; he was appointed archbishop in 1159, and died at Paris in 1164. He was one of the best scholars of the day and a zealous ecclesiastic. His principal work is the Sententiarum libri quatuor (or Sentences), a collection of passages from the Fathers, the many contradictions of which he attempts to conciliate. He was the first author who collected theological doctrines into I a complete system, laying foundations for scholastic theology. His work became the text-book in schools of philosophy through the middle ages, a universal 381 manual of theology, and obtained for him the title of “Magister Sententiarum.” It was first publ. in Venice, 1477, fol., in 4 pts. The best ed. is by Antoine Ghenart, London, 1567, 4to. Lombard also wrote Commentaries on the Psalms and on the Epistles of St. Paul.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, pp. 380-381