This book makes an historical analysis of the Catholic Sacramental System in the works of Peter Lombard, a major medieval theologian, through the following topics: The Conception of Sacrament in the Early Fathers; The Formulation of the Definition of Sacrament; The Eucharistic Controversy; Efforts After Codification; Predecessors of the Lombard; Peter Lombard and His Text-Book; Translation of Book IV, Distinctions I-XXVI, of
the Quatuor Libri Sententiarum of Peter the Lombard.