Peter Lombard (1100-1160)

Major work

•          Book of Sentences

Importance

•          Organized patristic and medieval citations into a coherent statement of Christian belief

•          One of the first to mention seven sacraments

•          A student of Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux

•          Some questioned his Christology and his view of the Trinity but 4^th Lateran Council of 1215 declared his works orthodox

•          Book of Sentences used in academic circles until Aquinas’s Summa came out