num_pages: 336
description: The principal signs and instruments of grace available to Christians as a result of Christ's redeeming work are the sacraments of the Church ? baptism confirmation the Eucharist penance extreme unction holy orders and marriage. These are the main subjects of Book 4 of the Sentences comprising forty-two of its fifty Distinctions. In particular penance and marriage (with regard to which the Lombard's consensual theory was to prove extremely influential) receive extensive discussion. The last eight Distinctions are given over to a treatment of the last things: the bodily resurrection purgation hell the last judgement and eternity. The Book concludes with a reference to a text of Isaias that serves as an allegory of the function and purpose of the Sentences as a whole.
language: None
title: The Sentences Book 4: On The Doctrine of Signs
publisher: PIMS