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Imputation Attested in the Early, Medieval, and even Counter-Reformation Era
Pastor David King was of great help in providing the following example of an early church Father, a medieval Father, a Doctor of the Church (according to Rome), and a cardinal of the Roman church, all affirming imputation in some form or other. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153): The fragrance of your wisdom comes to us…
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Bellarmine on 1 Corinthians 3:11-15
The following are some thoughts of Robert Francis Romulus Bellarmine (Robert Bellarmine was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1930, and declared a Doctor of the Universal Church in 1931.) on 1 Corinthians 3:11-15. I don’t present this as though it is the only thing that Roman Catholics have ever said about this, nor as…
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Various Readings of the Great Luther Citation
The following are the fourteen readily obtainable uses by authors of the spurious Latin gloss on Luther’s statement, as instigated by Cochlaeus and perpetuated by Bellarmine, and as brought to the public’s attention as spurious by both Whitaker and Swan. The words: “Si diutius steterit mud, iteru erit necessariu, ut, ppter diversas Scripture interptationes, q…
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Speculative Luther Citation Tree
LutherGerman Original statements in “These words, ‘this is my body,’ etc.”toCochlaeus’ inaccurate gloss on a single sentence from that work.toBellarmine and Chrismann (independently of one another)with Bellarmine serving as major node, with many Catholic apologists (possibly including Gregory Martin, de Sales, and so forth) and Leibniz obtaining it from Bellarmine or from someone who relied…