![]() ![]() He left behind "a comprehensive corpus of books on logic, theology and ethics, amounting to about a million words in all". In one of his most famous sayings, "by doubting we come to inquiry by inquiry we come to truth". To him, religion was not unthinking contemplation, but should be subject to reason. But it is not just a love affair as they produced a series of letters and other works that place them at the heart of the 12th century Renaissance in learning and religion, what one might describe as the first infusion of reason and enlightenment into the religious life of the country.Ībelard was a major name in philosophy and influential in the direction of independent religious thought, a logical thinker who frequently annoyed and antagonised those in authority. This is an account of one of the most famous love affairs in all history, that of the 12 the century French philosopher and writer Peter Abelard and the writer and religious Heloise. ![]()
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