Walter of St-Victor

Walter of St-Victor
Walter of St-Victor
Mystic philosopher and theologian of the twelth century

Catholic Encyclopedia. . 2006.

Walter of St-Victor
    Walter of St-Victor
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    Mystic philosopher and theologian of the twelth century. Nothing is known about Walter except that (about the year 1175) he was prior of the monastery of St-Victor that about the time of the Third Lateran Council (1179) he wrote the celebrated polemic, "Contra quatuor labyrinthos Franciae", and that he died about the year 1180. Du Boulay in his "Hist. Univ. Paris." (1665) first called attention to Walter's treatise and published excerpts from it (republished in P.L., CXCIX). More recently Denifle has described the manuscript And Geyer has published a critical text of the second book. The "four labyrinths" against whom the work is directed are Abelard, Gilbert de la Porrée, Peter Lombard, and Peter of Poitiers. It is a bitter attack on the dialectical method in theology, and condemns in no measured terms the use of logic in the elucidation of the mysteries of faith. Walter is indignant at the thought of treating the mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation "with scholastic levity". Discarding the best traditions of the School of St-Victor, he pours abuse on the philosophers, the theologians, and even the grammarians. "Thy grammar be with thee until perdition", he cries. This violence, however, defeated his purpose, which was to discredit the dialecticians. Not only did he fail to convince his contemporaries, but he very probably hastened the triumph of the method which he attacked. Four years after his polemic was published, Peter of Poitiers, one of the "labyrinths", was raise by the pope to the dignity of chancellor of the Diocese of Paris, and before the end of the decade Peter Lombard, another of the "Labyrinths", was recognized as an authority in theology, his method adopted in the schools, and his famous "Books of Sentences" used as a text and commented on by all the great teachers — a distinction which it retained all through the thirteenth century.
    DU BOULAY, Hist. Univ. Paris., II (Paris, 1665), 402 sqq.; DENIFLE, Archiv f. Literatur-und Kirchengesch. des M.A., I, 404; GEYER, Die Sententiae Divinitatis (Munster, 1909); GRABMANN, Gesch. der schol. Methode, II (Freiburg, 1911), 124.
    WILLIAM TURNER
    Transcribed by Thomas M. Barrett Dedicated to the memory of Walter of St-Victor

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. . 1910.


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