Abélard

His hostility to Abélard was direful, since he looked upon him as undermining Christianity and extinguishing faith in the world.

He was also influenced to make this exposition by the "Sic et Non" of Abélard, which tended to unsettle belief.

He went even further than this: he attempted to harmonize philosophy with religion, as Abélard did afterwards.

The Scholastic philosophy sent forth such daring thinkers as Erigena and Abélard.

Such was Abélard's precocious ability, even as a youth, that no champion could be found to refute him in the whole of Brittany.