ROSCELIN

rŏsˈəlĭn, c.1045–c.1120, French scholastic philosopher, also called Roscellinus, Johannes Roscellinus, and Jean Roscelin. Roscelin was one of the first thinkers of the Middle Ages to deal with the problem of universals, or general concepts (see realism). Although very little of his writing has survived, he seems to have been an extreme nominalist, teaching that universals were nothing more than words. Roscelin's position was attacked by his pupil, Peter Abelard, but Abelard's own viewpoint on this question showed a considerable debt to Roscelin. Accused of the heresy of tritheism (teaching that the Three Persons of the Trinity are separate individuals), Roscelin was ordered (1092) by the Synod of Soissons to recant, but he escaped condemnation.

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St. Anselm and His Critics: A Re-Interpretation of the Cur Deus Homo
Book by John McIntyre; Oliver and Boyd, 1954
Subjects: Atonement--History
...the Trinity. St. Anselms criticism of Roscelin in c. 2 is that he is committed to Tritheism...with the Son. St. Anselm assumes that Roscelin has gone on to say: since it is generally...Anselm would know independently that Roscelin favoured Tritheism, for in the Epistola...
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Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism
Book by Catherine Brown; Stanford University, 1998
Subjects: Literature, Medieval--History And Criticism, Logic, Teaching
...older master. This violent rupture with Roscelin conceals an ironic repetition of Roscelins...both men were condemned at Soissons Roscelin in 1092, Abelard in 1121 for heterodox...place to place. For the argument with Roscelin, see Abelard, Theologia "Summi Boni...
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Abelard and Heloise
Book by Constant J. Mews; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Abelard, Peter--1079-1142, Haeloeise--1101-1164
...many inadequacies in the teaching of Roscelin, there was much that he learned from his first teacher. Above all, Roscelin introduced Abelard to the study of...would also certainly have gained from Roscelin the elements of religious instruction...
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Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians
Book by Patrick W. Carey, Joseph T. Lienhard; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Theologians--Biography--Dictionaries
...begin with, he found himself at odds with Roscelin. Probably born around 1050 at Compiegne, Roscelin was a teacher of theology and philosophy...John, a monk at Beauvais, who said that Roscelin was claiming that the divine Trinity either...
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The Silent Masters: Latin Literature and Its Censors in the High Middle Ages
Book by Peter Godman; Princeton University Press, 2000
Subjects: Censorship--Europe--History--To 1500, Humanists--Europe, Latin Literature, Medieval And Modern--Censorship, Latin Literature, Medieval And Modern--History And Criticism
heretical teacher Roscelin, who had taken his name in vain...unfinished version of his argument against Roscelin's errors had been copied and circulated...Anselm invited renewed condemnation of Roscelin's. Humility preserved the order...
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The Truth Is in the Making: Borges and Pragmatism
Journal article by Bruno Bosteels; The Romanic Review, Vol. 98, 2007
Subjects: Argentine writers--Criticism and interpretation, Argentine writers--Works, Authors, Argentine--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, Argentine--Works, Borges, Jorge Luis--Criticism and interpretation, Borges, Jorge Luis--Works, Pragmatism--Analysis
...and dialect: one is Parmenides, Plato, Anselm, Leibniz, Kant, Francis Bradley; the other, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Roscelin, Locke, Hume, William James. The English nominalism of the fourteenth century reemerges in the scrupulous English idealism...
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The Medieval Theologians: an Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period
Journal article by Phillip Luke Sinitiere; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 46, 2003
...controversies of the eleventh century (Berengar of Tours on "symbolic" communion; Peter Damien on the power of God; and Roscelin of Compiegne on the Trinity) brought about by strides in medieval scholarship and political controversy. Also, in the following...
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Serlo of Wilton and the Schools of Oxford
Journal article by R. M. Thomson; Medium Aevum, Vol. 68, 1999
Subjects: Middle Ages--Schools, Scholars--12th century, United Kingdom--Schools, Universities and colleges--History, University of Oxford--History
...produces the same result as would a judgement upon Peter Abelard which disregarded his writings in favour of the testimony of Roscelin or Bernard of Clairvaux.(32) Indeed Bernard criticizes Abelard precisely because he was a master of secular disciplines...


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encyclopedia articles on: Roscelin  - 4 results

 
 
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Roscelin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ROSCELIN ros lin, c.1045 c.1120, French scholastic philosopher, also called Roscellinus, Johannes Roscellinus, and Jean Roscelin. Roscelin was one of the first thinkers of the Middle Ages to deal with the problem...
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Anselm, Saint
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...notion of a perfect being in whom nothing is lacking. In De Fide Trinitatis he defended universals against the nominalist Roscelin . He taught the Immaculate Conception of Mary in De Conceptu Virginali and is said to have instituted that feast in England...
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Abelard, Peter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of faith was in opposition to the mysticism of St. Bernard. He also opposed the extreme views of William of Champeaux and Roscelin on the problems of universals. His own solution, in which universals are considered as entities existent only in thought...
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Scholasticism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...philosophical problem in the 12th cent. was the question of the universal (see realism ). Opposing both the extreme nominalism of Roscelin and the realism of William of Champeaux , Peter Abelard taught a moderate doctrine; he recognized the universal as a symbol...


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