Also known as "Marriage is the Grave of Love" Zhang Baotong 2016.7.4

The Cathedral of Sens is a famous cathedral in France, located in the small town of Sens on the banks of the Yone River in the north of the province of Burgundy, southeast of Paris. The Cathedral of Pen, Fun, and Court www.biquge.info Sens is a cathedral built with rock as the main material in the embryonic days of Gothic architecture. The Council of Sens was a very important meeting of the French religious community in 1141. Important bishops and archbishops from all over France will attend, and even the king of France will be present.

It was a June day in 1141, and although the summer sun was blazing on the Jonah River, perhaps because of the early morning, there was a faint chill in the narrow stone-paved alleys of the old town. Accompanied by two students, Abelard rode from Paris to the town of Sens. The main street in the town is really just a narrow alley. As I walked slowly through the alleys, I happened to meet Bernard in the city of Sens. He rode a horse, accompanied by four or five bishops and dozens of clergy who accompanied him through the streets. The people of the city lined the alleys cheering and adoring him. He kept waving his hands to greet the people who welcomed him.

Seeing this, Abelard hurriedly took two students into the city from the deserted back street, fearing that the people who welcomed Bernard would see them, recognize them, and throw stones at them. This is because there have been rumors circulating among the public, accusing Abelard of the arrogance of trying to incite young people to use the "limited and pitiful reason" of mankind to explore the infinite mysteries of God. So the situation is exactly what he saw more than a decade ago before the Soissons conference.

He stayed in a hotel with two students, afraid to show his face on the street. In the afternoon, they heard a revelry in the streets. So they looked out of the inn window into the street, and saw the King of France walking through the street in a sumptuous carriage, accompanied and protected by his imposing courtiers and guards, to the cheers of the people.

To Abelard's surprise, the synod was made unusually grand and grand by Archbishop Sans. Not only the King of France and his courtiers were present, but also dozens of the most prominent church leaders in the country. Within a week, Sans was the center of Christendom. So, as soon as Abelard entered the meeting that morning, he felt a great deal of fear and pressure.

Bernard was slightly lame due to rheumatism, his demeanor was solemn, his demeanor was serious, and he looked as if he were awe-inspiring and inviolable, which intimidated everyone present. The high clergy present at the meeting, both individually and collectively, believed that Abelard was attacking the ills of the Church, such as the lascivious behavior of the clergy and the monks, the sale of indulgences, and the falsification of miracles. So, they all looked at Abelard coldly and glared angrily.

Before the meeting, Abelard wanted to be able to defend himself at the meeting and clarify the accusations made against him by the church. However, this appeal was thwarted by Bernard, on the grounds that Abelard himself was a genius of dialectics and that no one could compete with him, so he was denied the right to be heard, and he was confined to sitting in a corner of the meeting and listening to the fierce criticism of his ideas. Sensing the hostility from all sides, and anticipating that the council would condemn him, Abelard declared during his first presence that he would accept only the Pope as his judge, and then immediately withdrew from the council and left the city.

Since Abelard claimed that only the Pope was qualified to judge him, the attendees were not sure whether they could legitimately judge him. And Bernard was sure they could judge him. So they listed 16 doubts from Abelard's book, including his definition of "sin" and the Trinitarianism of a God of strength, wisdom, and mercy, and concentrated on 6 undoubted charges before he was tried in absentia.

At the conference, Bernard solemnly declared Abelard's Christian Theology, Yes or False, Introduction to Theology, and Know Thyself heretical doctrines and burned them on the spot. Abelard was sentenced to a lifetime ban from making any speech and imprisoned in a monastery.

When Abelard heard of this judgment, he was deeply saddened and despaired. This was in effect a sentence that the cause for which he had fought all his life would come to an end, and that the books he had spent his life writing would henceforth become heretical. Yes, he had completely and utterly lost in the desperate battle against the ecclesiastical forces headed by Bernard. Moreover, he had already been dismissed from the church seminary, and there was nowhere to stay. However, he refused to return to the convent of the Holy Spirit in Eloise to escape the calamity. Because his body is crippled, he is a cripple, and all he can do is his mind. If his mind is also imprisoned, then what is the point of his life in this world?

Abelard was a fighter, and the purpose of his existence was to fight, and if he was imprisoned in a monastery, it would be better for him to die. The Sens Conference had effectively pronounced his death sentence. But he felt that the verdict was extremely unjust, and he went to Rome to personally state the case to Pope Innocent II in order to show the purity of his faith. I want to get justice for the academic work that I really love all my life.

So, on the scorching summer road to Rome, the disobedient Abelard rode alone on horseback and with a very simple dress, and after leaving Paris in a miserable manner, he walked on the road of worship. Paris is the northern city of France, while Rome is the central city of Italy. The distance between the two cities is about 900 miles (1,500 kilometers), and if you use 60 miles a day, you have to walk for at least half a month. But he sang a sad song all the way, and made a difficult way in the direction of Rome.

"The pouring rain washes and pours,

Shriveled and black under the scorching sun.

The raven pecked its eyes into holes,

The beard and eyelashes are gone,

Under the gimmick of birds, like thimbles.

We will never rest again,

With the wind, drifting around,

At its mercy, north, south, west and east. ”

However, at this time, Abelard was already in the age of sixties, old and weak, faltering, and penniless. So, as soon as he left Paris and came to the southeastern province of Burgundy, he fell ill with a serious illness. He felt feverish, dizzy, and weak, and when he rode on his horse, he felt his eyes glaze and the world spin. In the end, he had to dismount, take the reins, and lay down on the grass by the side of the road.