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Category: Trent

  • Trent, Augustine, Scripture, and Justification

    Trent makes a number of explicit claims about justification. Of this Justification the causes are these:the final cause indeed is the glory of God and of Jesus Christ, and life everlasting;while the efficient cause is a merciful God who washes and sanctifies gratuitously, signing, and anointing with the holy Spirit of promise, who is the…

  • Bryan Cross on Trent and 1 Clement

    Bryan Cross wrote: The Tridentine bishops were quite aware of 1 Clement, and did not consider, for example, Canon 9 or Canon 24 (of Session 6) to be contrary to St. Clement’s teaching on justification. I have asked Bryan what his evidence of this is.  My guess is that he just made this up. After…

  • Trent vs. Scripture and Tradition on the Priesthood of Believers

    Trent Trent asserts: And if any one affirm, that all Christians indiscriminately are priests of the New Testament … he clearly does nothing but confound the ecclesiastical hierarchy … . (Session 23, Chapter 4)ScriptureScripture declares: Exodus 19:5-6 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a…

  • Calvin, Trent, and the Vulgate: Responding to Barrett Turner

    One of the Reformed criticisms of Rome is that she has placed herself above Scripture in various ways. She claims that her interpretation of Scripture is authentic and unchallengeable, that her dogmatic teachings (even when they are not interpretations of Scripture) are infallible and irreformable, and she claims that the Old Latin Vulgate embodies both…

  • John Calvin Responding to the Fourth Session of the Council of Trent

    The following is an excerpt from John Calvin’s famous “Antidote to the Council of Trent.” ON THE FOURTH SESSION. There is an old proverb, — The Romans conquer by sitting. Trusting to this, those degenerate and bastard sons of the Roman See, i.e., the great harlot, sat down to conquer when they appointed the third…

  • Rome and Freedom of Religion

    Rome’s practices with respect to the freedom of religion have obviously changed. We don’t hear stories about any modern-day inquisitors. However, it should be noted that Rome’s view on coercion of apostates is actually set in a dogmatic definition. Specifically, Canon 14 on Baptism from Trent’s Seventh Session reads as follows: CANON XIV.-If any one…

  • Am I Safe from Rome’s Anathemas?

    A pseudonymous blogger under the penname Reginald de Piperno (RdP), responding to my opening post in my series on Trent (link to post), stated: For example, TF claims that he is under the anathema of Trent. But unless he is or was formally Catholic, this is flatly impossible. I do not understand the seeming fondness…

  • Not Everything Trent Says about Justification is Wrong

    Before I get into the bad parts of what Trent says about Justification, it is worth noting that not everything Trent says in its canons on Justification is bad: CANON I.-If any one saith, that man may be justified before God by his own works, whether done through the teaching of human nature, or that…

  • Guilty Consciences at Trent?

    I’m about to embark on a short series of posts on the topic Trent’s canons and decrees regarding justification. It’s worth noting that my series will be bringing me under the anathema of that council. I’ll come under its anathema because I’ll be taking the position that the the Roman Catholic doctrine on Justification derogates…

  • An Inconvenient Conciliar Truth – Part 03

    An Inconvenient Conciliar Truth – Part 03 Some folks seem to find relying on councils a comfort. For these folks, there are some inconvenient facts that they must face. This post is the third in what, Lord willing, will be a multi-part series. Council of Trent (1545 to 1563) – Not Meaningfully Ecumenical The Council…