Lombard
PETER, a French philosopher; born about the beginning of the 12th century, at a village near Novara, in Lombardy. He was educated at Bologna, and came to France with recommendations to Bernard of Clairvaux. His uncommon talents soon procured him a chair of theology in Paris. In 1159 he was appointed Bishop of Paris, but he died in the following year.
He was very generally styled Magister Sententiarum, or the "Master of Sentences," from his work "Four Books of Sentences," an arranged collection of sentences from Augustine and other fathers, on points of Christian doctrine. A subtle heresy, "Nihilism," was detected by some in Peter's teaching, and the theoit on the conquest b led it Gal up of the vely in ruled 180 Lombe stry a and succe perors heir libe strong nough to the gdom of 15 it wa ted poli stian Lomb of Ber LOMBARD COLLEGE logical doctors of Paris in 1300 deit in 16 propositions culled from his writings. Peter Lombard's work was the subject of many commentaries down to the time of the Reformation.