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Aquinas and the Formal Sufficiency of Scripture
I’ve previously noted Aquinas’ apparent [FN1] view of the primacy of Scripture (link) as well as other comments from Aquinas on themes generally related to Sola Scriptura (link). The following quotation, however, comes close to expressing not only the material sufficiency of Scripture, but also the formal sufficiency of Scripture. Thus in Holy Writ no…
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Aquinas’ Affirmation of the Primacy of Scripture
A few folks have thought that the following quotation is significant with respect to the issue of Aquinas’ view of Scripture’s primacy. I answer that, Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal…
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Believing About the Holy Catholic Church
Introduction A perennial issue in our discussions with Roman Catholics is the issue of whether, in addition to believing God’s word in Scripture, we ought also to trust (in a similar way) in the church. While nothing in Scripture suggests that the church is another rule of faith in addition to Scripture, such that we…
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Aquinas Opera Omnia – Fretté & Maré – Index Page
The collection of all of Thomas Aquinas’ works was undertaken by editors Paul Maré and Stanislai Eduardi Fretté in what is (to my knowledge) the largest collection of Aquinas’ writings. Google Books has digitized many volumes of this collection (in two collections – first collection and second collection, and I’ve provided links to the relevant…
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Why Do Roman Catholics Think that Mary Didn’t Have Pain During Childbirth?
One belief that is common in Roman Catholicism today is that Jesus was born without Mary suffering any pain. While sometimes Roman Catholics think that this fits with the concept of Mary being immaculately conceived, when we examine this doctrine prior to the acceptance of the view of Mary’s immaculate conception, we see some slightly…
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Aquinas on Sola Scriptura
Some folks seem to imagine that a rejection of Sola Scriptura was the “established faith” prior to the Reformation. Those folks ought to read their Aquinas (emphasis supplied in the following: Article 8. Whether sacred doctrine is a matter of argument? Objection 1. It seems this doctrine is not a matter of argument. For Ambrose…
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Mary Crowned in Revelation?
In a previous point (link), I pointed out the glaring reality of Marian idolatry and the fact that such idolatry was unknown and foreign to Tertullian. I finally have received one of the responses that I expected to receive. This response comes from someone who posted using the name “John”: Mary is depicted with a…
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Aquinas – Catena Aurea – Index Page
Catena Aurea, commentary on the four Gospels; collected out of the works of the Fathers, translated by John Henry Newman (toward the end of his Protestant days). This series is a translation of Aquinas’ Catena Aurea (Golden Chain), which provides quotations attributed to various of the church fathers with whom Aquinas was apparently familiar. It…
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Origen – Not a Papist
Origen was not a papist, not a person who held to the modern Roman Catholic doctrine of the papacy. Origen interpreted Matthew 16:18 more like a modern Reformed believer would interpret the passage, and actually a lot like the way that Augustine interpreted the passage. Thus, in the following video, I respond to Mr. Albrecht’s…
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When was Purgatory Invented?
PhatCatholic recently addressed a question related to the question above, by posing the following question (link to source): When was Purgatory first talked about? PC answered: The earliest reference to Purgatory that scholars have found so far comes from The Acts of Paul and Thecla, which was written around 160 AD. In that work, we…