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Sic et Non

Yes and No

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Abelard places contradictory statements from the Church Fathers side by side on 158 theological questions, forcing readers to reason through the contradictions. The method that launched scholasticism.

By doubting we are led to question, and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

There are many seeming contradictions and even real contradictions in the writings of the Fathers, which we propose to assemble, that readers may be stimulated to seek out the truth.

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