THEO 24842 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anointing, Infant Baptism, Cistercians
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Heloise refuses to marry him bc she wants him to have the education he"s been. Impregnates heloise which is wrong for him bc he"s supposed to become a monk striving for. Abelard says god is a god of mercy, and if he"s truly a god of mercy in regards to sin, So god can"t be punishing christ in our place because he can"t punish. So he believes christ is the incarnation of human form in order to model how a human shall act. He becomes the type that we shall follow. Stages theory (anselm of laon): all sin is based on intentions; god only judges the intentions of the actions. Abelard believes we have innate vices that excuse our actions in relatio to the vices. Whenever he writes on grace and free will he is always seeking to extol. Major work called the height of theology. Either do philosophy or do theology, don"t do the two together anymore.
