Church History, Volume 2 (of 3)Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
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Church History, Volume 2 (of 3)
Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
Church history
During the 11th century, with the moral and spiritual elevation of
the church, eager attention was again given to theological science. It
was at first mainly prosecuted in the monasteries of the Cistercians
and among the monks of Clugny, but afterwards at the seminaries which
arose toward the end of the century. The dialectic method won more
and more the upper hand in theology, and in the Eucharist controversy
between Lanfranc and Berengar, as well as in the controversy between
Anselm and Gaunilo about the existence of God, and between Anselm and
Roscelin about the Trinity, Dogmatism obtained its first victory over
Scepticism.
§ 101.1. =The Most Celebrated Schoolmen of this Century.=
1. =Fulbert= opens the list, a pupil of Gerbert, and
from A.D. 1007 Bishop of Chartres Before entering on
his episcopate he had founded at Chartres a theological
seminary. His fame spread over all the West, so that pupils
poured in upon him from every side.
2. The most important of these was =Berengar of Tours=,
afterwards a canon and teacher of the cathedral school
of his native city, and then again archdeacon at Angers.
He died in A.D. 1088. The school of Tours rose to great
eminence under him.
3. =Lanfranc=, the celebrated opponent of the last-named,
was abbot of the monastery of Bec in Normandy, and from
A.D. 1070 Archbishop of Canterbury (§ 96, 8). He died in
A.D. 1089. He wrote against Berengar _Liber de corpore et
sanguine Domini_.
4. Bishop =Hildebert of Tours=, who died in A.D. 1134, famous
as a writer of spiritual songs, was a pupil of Berengar.
But he avoided the sceptical tendencies of his teacher, and,
warned of the danger of dialectic and following the mystical
bent of his mind, he applied himself to the cultivation of
a life of faith, so that St. Bernard praised him as _tantam
columnam ecclesiæ_.
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