A. Abelard plotted to win Heloise's love

B. They fell in love and made love numerous times

A. Abelard's studies and teaching are hindered

F. Lives spent in misery (rest of their lives were spent separated from each other and miserable)

B. Abelard (blamed love and women)

V. Consequences of loving a man more than God (pg. 1243)

- Heloise lived piously in a convent, yet knew that her heart was not right with God

- When denied companionship from Abelard she knew know peace

- both of her letters spoke of her misery at not being with or not hearing from Abelard

- With God she could have finally had peace even if her life wasn't perfect

More often than not there are consequences for a person's actions. They may be good, as in the case of a m

heavily upon us . . . what others deserve for adultery came upon you through a

fornication by an honourable marriage, then the Lord in his anger laid his hand

The first consequence of their relationship was the hindering of Abelard's teachings. Abelard was a great scholar and teacher of philosophy and religion. He had devoted his life to it and was supposed to be bound to a life of chastity. Because of his and Heloise's premarital affair, he could not be the great scholar and teacher he should have been. He wrote:

philosophy and the less attention I paid to my school. . . . As my interest and concentration flagged, my lectures lacked all inspiration and were merely

how at one wretched stroke of fortune that supreme act of flagrant treachery

marriage which you believed had made amends for all previous wrong

". . . while we enjoyed the pleasures of uneasy love and abandoned ourselves to fornication . . . we were spared God's severity. But when we amended our

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