Philip of Harveng

Philip of Harveng (Philip of Harvengt)[1] (died 1183) was a twelfth-century Premonstratensian and abbot of Bonne-Espérance Abbey in Hainault (present-day Belgium), and a theological writer.

His Responsio de damnatione Salomonis addressed the puzzling biblical behaviour of Solomon.

[2] He invented novel schemes of history from the Book of Daniel in his Dream of Nebuchadnezzar (De somnio regis Nabuchodonosor) ,[3] varying the pattern of the four monarchies.

[4] Drawing on Possidius, he also makes Augustine presage the regular canons.

[5] Associating the phrase docere verbo et exemplo (to teach by word and example) with the clerical life, in his De institutione clericorum, he put an emphasis on preaching.