Petri Abaelardi Opera Theologica by Eligius M. Buytaert (review)

BOOK REVIEWS 519 less-to guard an historical perspective of where we have come from. This work of Schoof's will be an invaluable (and pleasant) tool for the pursuit of this perspective. Schoof's emphasis is upon the living, divine principle of the life of faith and upon its emergence into the global reality of Christian life. The rediscovery of this interior principle was the impetus for the theologians whose work led to Vatican II. The story of the checks and frustrations of these pioneers teaches important lessons about the way in which the triumph of ideas is rooted as much in the march of events as it is in the movement of logical and conceptual relationships. It is a good lesson, too, about the inevitable limitations of man's communication with man in society. Bibliographical notes follow the major sections of each chapter. These bibliographical surveys are a most valuable contribution. The author's annotations clearly indicate the content and promise of the sources cited and Schoof has gone to special pains to direct the readers of this English edition of his text to sources available in our vernacular. Only once does the translation completely falter. On p. ~05, Bouillard's "actual" theology should read "up-to-date" theology. Somehow, the French actuelle resisted translation. Providence College Providence, R. I. PAUL J. PHILIBERT, 0. P. Petri Abaelardi Opera Theologica. By ELIGIUS M. BUYTAERT. Corpus Christiarwrum, Continuatio Mediaevalis XI-XII. Turnhout: Brepols, 1969. It is well known that the first edition of theological writings by Peter Abelard appeared in Paris in 1916 (Sumptibus Nicolai Buon, via Jacobea) . The preparation of the texts was the work of Fram;ois d'Amboise (d. 1619) and Andre Duchesne (1584-1640) . The printed copies contain either Duchesne's introduction or that of d'Amboise (PL 178, 71-104). In his Praefatio apologetica (PL 178, 75D) d'Amboise states that he used three manuscripts for the edition of the letters of Abelard and Heloise. The commentaries on the Lord's Prayer, the Apostles' Creed, and the PseudoAthanasian Creed are perhaps included in what d'Amboise describes as opuscula varia ex Navarrana bibliotheca. He found Abelard's homilies at the Sorbonne, the commentary on Romans in a manuscript from Mont-Saint-Michel (which Duchesne obtained from J. Sirmond), and the 5~0 BOOK REVIEWS lntroductio ad Theologiam, today known as Theologia 'Scholarium ', in two manuscripts then preserved at Saint-Victor, Paris. F. d'Amboise's information is much less specific in the title pages of each individual text. One manuscript containing the correspondence (Paris, Bibl. nat. Lat. ~545, s. xv-xvi) and the two manuscripts containing the Theologia 'Scholarium' (Bibl. nat. Lat. 14793 and Arsenal ~65) have survived; the fate of the others is unknown. A. Duchesne speaks of three additional manuscripts used in preparing the edition of the letters. Only one of them (Bibl. nat. Lat. 3544, s. xv ex.) is known to exist. The disappearance of so many manuscripts somehow increases the value of the 1616 edition and frustrates the work of later editors. Duchesne mentions other contributions to the edition without indicating the manuscripts used. When the entire material was taken over by Abbe Migne, Abelard's dossier included many works unknown to Duchesne and Amboise. In 1717 Martime-Durand (Thes. novus anecd. V, 1139-1359: PL 178, 11~31330 ) edited Abelard's Theologia christiana (MS Tours 85) and his Hexameron (Thes. V, 1361-1416: PL 178, 731-784; MS Avranches 135, from Mont-Saint-Michel). Four years later, B. Pez added his edition of Abelard's Ethica (Thes. anecd. noviss. III, 1,6~6-688: PL 178,633-678; MS St. Emmeram near Regensburg). V. Cousin (Ouvrages inedits 3-163) published the Sic et Non in 1836, but Migne (PL 178,1339-1610) preferred the Marburg edition (1851) published by E. L. Th. Henke and G. St. Lindenkohl. To all these texts Migne added the Dialogus or Collationes (PL 178, 1609-1684), edited by F. H. Rheinwald (Berlin 1831), and the Epitome Hermanni (PL 178, 1685-1758), published by the same Rheinwald (Berlin 1835) and, at that time, universally considered a work of Abelard 's. As a handy working tool the...