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Pierre Abelard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard (1079 - April 21, 1142) was a French scholastic philosopher and logician. The story of his affair with his student, Heloise, has become legendary..

"The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself."

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