ABSTRACT
It is easy to imagine the happiness Abelard would have found when he resumed teaching in Paris in 1136. After all the years of disappointment and adversity he was once more in his true element. According to Abelard, Bernard first approached the Archbishop of Sens, since the diocese of Paris was part of his ecclesiastical province. Bernard probably tried to persuade the bishop to intervene, and he was given permission to preach to the students in Paris himself. In view of the close relationship between Bernard and Innocent II, due to a large extent to Bernard’s victory over the antipope Anacletus II, one might anticipate that the treatise and the accompanying list of Abelard’s heresies would cause the pope to act; but nothing happened. Instead, the heretic persisted and published an edition of the Theologia that took Bernard’s objections into consideration, but in such a form that there was little in the way of admission of error.
