A monk who sought a scientific method to distinguish truth from heresy. He famously defined Orthodoxy as "that which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all."
His writings were partly a reaction against St. Augustine, whom he feared had gone too far with his harsh views on predestination.
His primary surviving work. It is a guide for the perplexed believer on how to distinguish truth from new heresies. This is the source of the "Vincentian Canon"—the rule that true doctrine is that which has been believed "everywhere, always, and by all."
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11 Church Fathers in this era
Part of The Golden Age: Latin (Western) Fathers