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The year is 1140. In a imposing cathedral in France's Champagne region, two of the most recognized men on the planet are about to face the other person in a contest of wills and a test of beliefs. On one part is Bernard of Clairvaux, a counselor and selector of popes who will be called "Saint" even before his fatality. The other is Peter Abelard, broadly decided to be the era's most brilliant thinker, a middle ages rock legend among students in the colleges of European countries and on the Paris cultural scene. Bernard has accused Peter of heresy and insolence before God, a charge for which Bernard has the capacity to order Peter carried out. This intense, emotional and partisan clash between two men, the ways that the scholar provokes the saint's outrage, and the ultimate result of the fight changes the course of history - and shape the turmoil between reason and beliefs that continues to inflame passions even today. Jon M. Sweeney, author of The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Story of Mystery, Death, and Salvation and Inventing Hell, makes the case that Christians cannot understand who we could today or how exactly we balance what we should believe with what we say without shining a light on what might often pass completely unnoticed: this small but significant event in our history. And there is, in reality, desire to be gleaned from the study of these two giants of middle ages thought. Just how much, it turns out, Bernard and Peter actually distributed in keeping! Sweeney points out delicacies with their spiritualities that actually link them in ways they never would have appreciated during their lifetimes. It really is these delicacies, as well as what prevented the two men from knowing them, that provide insights into exactly how we modern Christians might still get over this regrettable - and avoidable - turmoil that has reverberated through the age groups.
