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Peter Abelard (d. 1142) and Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153) were contemporaries who both emerged from the new twelfth-century schools. But their dispositions, personalities, and eventual conflict have come to represent a conflict between the rising scholastic and the traditional monastic cultures of learning. Professor Willemien Otten will introduce these iconic twelfth-century personalities, the direction of their work, and the theological controversy that put them on opposing sides. This lecture is part of our Spring Webinar Series on "Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought" What can reason discover about God? Are there other possible ways to know God? Medieval Christians undertook great...