The Glossa Ordinaria and Peter Lombard's Sentences (and a few others...)

fgh said:

With Erasmus hopefully on the way, filling a huge gap between Aquinas and Luther, Logos needs to move backwards in time and do something about the huge gap between the ECF and Aquinas, where right now there is little except Anselm and St Bernard. And no offense to either of them, but in the history of theology I suspect the Glossa Ordinaria and Peter Lombard's Sentences have been far more influential.

"The Glossa ordinaria (pl. glossae ordinariae), Lat., "the ordinary gloss/interpretation/explanation", was an assembly of glosses, from the Church Fathers and thereafter, printed in the margins of the Vulgate Bible; these were widely used in the education system of Christendom in Cathedral schools from the Carolingian period onward, and were only forgotten in the 14th century. For many generations, the Glossa ordinaria was the standard commentary on the Scriptures in Western Europe; it greatly influenced Western European Christian theology and culture." (Wikipedia)

"Peter Lombard wrote commentaries on the Psalms and the Pauline epistles; however, his most famous work by far was Libri Quatuor Sententiarum, or the Four Books of Sentences, which became the standard textbook of theology at the medieval universities. From the 1220s until the 16th century, no work of Christian literature, except for the Bible itself, was commented upon more frequently. All the major medieval thinkers, from Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas to William of Ockham and Gabriel Biel, were influenced by it. Even the young Martin Luther still wrote glosses on the Sentences, and John Calvin quoted from it over 100 times in his Institutes.

Though the Four Books of Sentences formed the framework upon which four centuries of scholastic interpretation of Christian dogma was based, rather than a dialectical work itself, the Four Books of Sentences is a compilation of biblical texts, together with relevant passages from the Church Fathers and many medieval thinkers, on virtually the entire field of Christian theology as it was understood at the time. Peter Lombard's magnum opus stands squarely within the pre-scholastic exegesis of biblical passages, in the tradition of Anselm of Laon, who taught through quotations from authorities. It stands out as the first major effort to bring together commentaries on the full range of theological issues, arrange the material in a systematic order, and attempt to reconcile them where they appeared to defend different viewpoints. The Sentences starts with the Trinity in Book I, moves on to creation in Book II, treats Christ, the savior of the fallen creation, in Book III, and deals with the sacraments, which mediate Christ's grace, in Book IV." (Wikipedia)

Latin-English editions would be nice.

In fact, if there are English translations to be found, a collection with both the Sentences, and some of the most important commentaries on the Sentences would be interesting (Albert, Aquinas, Ockham, Bonaventure, Scotus...). 

And I believe we're also missing Abélard and Boethius. (And, yes, a few dozen other important medieval thinkers, but let's take it one step at a time.)

(Inspired by this thread.)

 

Added after some research: I found this webpage, which lists quite a few Lombard commentaries and editions available on the web. And Brill seems to work on a modern edition, but like all of Brill's books they're outrageously expensive, so I suspect they're out of the question.

For the Sentences themselves, though, I found a modern edition in a very interesting looking series, Mediaeval Sources in Translation, which seems slightly more moderately priced. Plus it claims to be the first complete English translation, which, if true, doesn't leave much choice... 

Furthermore, I just realized that Anders Piltz OP: Medeltidens lärda värld has been translated into English as The World of Medieval Learning. This is an excellent book which I would also like to see in Logos. The first page of a review can be found here, and according to a quote on the Wikipedia link above the conclusion is that it's "a distinguished book by a master that is ideally a companion to conventional histories of medieval thought and learning."

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Theolobias said:

Logos needs to move backwards in time …  Peter Lombard's Sentences

Considering the fact that they intend to publish Aquinas' commentary on Lombard's Sentences (without the Sentences) http://www.logos.com/product/18419/aquinas-commentary-on-the-sentences-of-peter-lombard-english-and-latin, the Sentences themselves would be welcome.

Bump! 

We need Lombard's Sentences.