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See also:ROSCELLINUS (RUCELINrus, or ROUSSELIN) (c. 1050–c. 1122) , often called the founder of See also:Nominalism (see See also:SCHOLASTICISM), was See also:born at See also:Compiegne (Compendium). Little is known of his See also:life, and our knowledge of his doctrines is mainly derived from See also:Anselm, See also:Abelard and See also:John of See also:Salisbury. He studied at See also:Soissons and See also:Reims, was afterwards attached to the See also:cathedral of See also:Chartres, and became See also:canon of Compiegne. It seems most probable that Roscellinus was not strictly the first to promulgate nominalistic doctrines; but in his exposition they received more definite expression, and, being applied to the See also:dogma of the Trinity, attracted universal See also:attention. Roscellinus maintained that itis merely a See also:habit of speech which prevents our speaking of the three persons as three substances or three Gods. If it were otherwise, and the three persons were really one substance or thing (una res), we should be forced to admit that the See also:Father and the See also:Holy Spirit became incarnate along with the Son. Roscellinus seems to have put forward this See also:doctrine in perfect See also:good faith, and to have claimed for it at first the authority of See also:Lanfranc and Anselm. In 1092, however, a See also:council convoked by the See also:archbishop of Reims condemned his See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation, and Roscellinus, who was in danger of being stoned to See also:death by the orthodox populace, recanted his See also:error. He fled to See also:England, but having made himself unpopular by an attack on the doctrines of Anselm, he See also:left the See also:country and repaired to See also:Rome, where he was well received and became reconciled to the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church. He then returned to See also:France, taught at See also:Tours and Loc-menach (See also:Loches) in See also:Brittany (where he had Abelard as a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil), and finally became canon of See also:Besancon. He is heard of as See also:late as 1121, when he came forward to oppose Abelard's views on the Trinity.
Of the writings of Roscellinus, nothing is preserved except a See also:letter to Abelard, mainly concerned with the doctrine of the Trinity (ed. J. A. Schmeller, See also:Munich, 185o). See F.
End of Article: ROSCELLINUS (RUCELINrus, or ROUSSELIN) (c. 1050–c. 1122)
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