See also:

• ROSCELLINUS (RUCELINrus, or ROUSSELIN) (c. 1050–c. 1122)

ROSCELLINUS (RUCELINrus, or ROUSSELIN) (c. 1050–c. 1122)  , often called the founder of See also:

• NOMINALISM (from Lat. nomen, name)

Nominalism (see See also:

• SCHOLASTICISM

SCHOLASTICISM), was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• COMPIEGNE

Compiegne (Compendium) . Little is known of his See also:

• LIFE

life, and our knowledge of his doctrines is mainly derived from See also:

• ANSELM
• ANSELM (c. 1033-1109)

Anselm, See also:

• ABELARD, PETER (1079-1142)

Abelard and See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John of See also:

• SALISBURY
• SALISBURY, EARLS OF
• SALISBURY, ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNECECIL, 3RD MARQUESS OF (1830-1903)
• SALISBURY, ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1565-1612)
• SALISBURY, THOMAS DE MONTACUTE, 4TH EARL OF (1388-1428)
• SALISBURY, WILLIAM LONGSWORD (or LONGESPEE), EARL OF (d. 1226)

Salisbury . He studied at See also:

• SOISSONS

Soissons and See also:

• REIMS
• REIMS (RHEIMS)

Reims, was afterwards attached to the See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral of See also:

• CHARTRES

Chartres, and became See also:

• CANON

canon of Compiegne . It seems most probable that See also:

• ROSCELLINUS (RUCELINrus, or ROUSSELIN) (c. 1050–c. 1122)

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 (Gr. Sbypa, from b6aeiv, to seem; literally " that which seems, sc. good or true or useful " to any one)

dogma of the Trinity, attracted universal See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention . Roscellinus maintained that itis merely a See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

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

Father and the See also:

• HOLY

Holy Spirit became incarnate along with the Son . Roscellinus seems to have put forward this See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine in perfect See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good faith, and to have claimed for it at first the authority of See also:

• LANFRANC (d. 1089)

Lanfranc and Anselm . In 1092, however, a See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council convoked by the See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

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

death by the orthodox populace, recanted his See also:

• ERROR (Lat. error, from errare, to wander, to err)

error . He fled to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, but having made himself unpopular by an attack on the doctrines of Anselm, he See also:

• LEFT

left the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country and repaired to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

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
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, taught at See also:

• TOURS

Tours and Loc-menach (See also:

• LOCHES

Loches) in See also:

• BRITTANY

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

Besancon . He is heard of as See also:

• LATE

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 (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter to Abelard, mainly concerned with the doctrine of the Trinity (ed .

J . A . Schmeller, See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich, 185o) . See F .