Abelard on the Trinity

Ryan M. Reeves (PhD Cambridge) is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Twitter: RyanMReeves Instagram: ryreeves4
Website: www.gordonconwell.edu/academics/view-faculty-member.cfm?faculty_id=15906&grp_id=8947
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[@thatoneguysface1]

I am stinking LOVING THIS CHURCH HISTORY SERIES!!!! Thanks so much for it! May the Lord bless you!

[@MDivGirl]

Thank you for posting these videos. You have finally made (somewhat) clear to me what Aberlard was getting at with the wax and the seal. The visual aids helped. I will be sure to listen to your next Abelard lecture on the cross to figure out what in the world is going on there. Small point of clarification -- the way you word the introduction makes it sound like Abelard studied with THE Anselm (of previous lectures). I believe that he never did, or even met him, but knew him through his writings. He studied with AN Anselm -- the scripture teacher called Anselm of Laon (more famous then, less famous now). He called Anselm of Canterbury "that magnificent doctor of the church" -- and then in good Abelardian fashion proceeded to argue with most of what he said anyway.

[@RyanReevesM]

Thanks for this! Not my intention, but I do need to be careful with this as people will assume!

[@israandmiraj5226]

Abelard work reminds me of ibn taymiyyah`s, "Reason” vs. “Revelation" treaties and al andulusian novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan you have a great channel and am a huge fan of your work

[@isaaclove4716]

Once I finish these videos do I get credit from GCTS?

[@RyanReevesM]

+Isaac Love // I say yes, but the accreditors and administrators may disagree with me! :)

[@UKESRfertilizer]

great valuable info.. dr reeves thank you for this work youve done

[@padrespeaks]

Ryan, do you have a comprehensive reading list for the works of Abelard? Amazon keeps showing me works about him and Heloise. While also interesting, I'd love to know where I can read his tracts.

[@inescm4991]

great video!

[@TheRealSlobo]

I love your channel

[@juanazaratebasurto3657]

Mi ingles es básico, por favor incluyan traducciones, mil graciad

[@benson0509]

Any idea what happened to Astrolabe?

[@RyanReevesM]

+NoName // No, haha. Great question, though. I wish I knew!

[@MDivGirl]

Nobody knows much, but he was apparently raised by Abelard's sister. Heloise asks Peter the Venerable to find a place for him somewhere, and there is a canon who turns up named Astrolabe and later an abbot of that name. He turns up in a death roll a bit later as "Peter Astrolabe son of our Master Peter." There is some debate over whether these were all the same Astrolabe, though the time line would work out for them to be and it was a very strange name (given by Heloise) virtually unheard of elsewhere. So it seems that he followed in his parents' footsteps and found his vocation in the church. There's also a (very long) poem of advice that Abelard wrote to him, with some debate over how much of it is Abelard's original and how much later additions. I also wish history had a little more to say about him -- although, considering his beginning and his father's end, maybe he preferred relative anonymity.

[@MDivGirl]

Also, these lectures are amazing. Thank you so much for all your hard work and for making them available.

[@reddevil1030]

sounds like Abelard lost more than his jewels

[@ThreeUsee1]

TIL Abalard is Satan still around singing for 30 seconds to mars, and taking small time acting jobs under huge name actors.