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Polyglot Bible
The Old Testament Hebrew Massoretic, Greek Septuagint (LXX), Latin Vulgate, and Luther German texts, in four columns; the New Testament in Greek and Latin and German, the last column annotated with critical notes and variants. 1863. (link to Archive.org) It’s not the Complutensian Polyglot but it is an interesting source, especially if one knows a…
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Incoming Blog Post Alert from Bellisario
Bellisario writes: “I have recently been working on a response to Turretin Fan’s absurd abuse of the Angelic Doctor’s works concerning his view of Sacred Scripture.” He explains that his research is taking a long time (it can’t be that long, he only started within the last month) and generating enough material for a book.…
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Aquinas – Index
This is an index post for posts that are primarily about Aquinas (other posts that touch on Aquinas and posts that are more recent than the most recent update of this index post can be found by searching on the label Aquinas) The date of this post may change as I back-date it to move…
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The Theological Virtues Only Known to Us Through Scripture
We’ve previously seen Aquinas talking about the primacy and sufficiency of Scripture. In the following quotation, we see Aquinas stating that the theological virtues are only known via divine revelation found in scripture (“sola divina revelatione, in sacra Scriptura”): Such like principles are called “theological virtues”: first, because their object is God, inasmuch as they…
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Aquinas on the Primacy of Scripture – a Word of Clarification
One of the key texts in the discussion of Aquinas and the primacy of Scripture is as follows: “Formale autem obiectum fidei est veritas prima secundum quod manifestatur in Scripturis sacris et doctrina Ecclesiae [quae procedit ex veritate prima]*. Unde quicumque non inhaeret, sicut infallibili et divinae regulae, doctrinae Ecclesiae, quae procedit ex veritate prima…
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Flood of Comments
Please note that over the next few days you may see a flood of previously unpublished comments being released. In some cases, I held the comments accidentally due to high volume, in other cases, I was hoping to answer the comments and hadn’t yet got around to it. There are still nearly 300 such comments…
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Magisterium More Sufficient than Scripture? (Part 1)
Is the Roman Catholic Magisterium More Sufficient than Sacred Scripture?Bryan Cross answered on the subject of the ability of the Scripture to interpret Scripture sufficiently, from Scripture, reason, and tradition. (Part 1 – Meaning of “Scripture Interprets Scripture”) Augustine (about A.D. 354-430) commenting on Psalm 145:13: The Lord is faithful in all his words, and…
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Eastern Orthodox Confusing Augustine with Gnostics
I notice that David at Pious Fabrication is accusing Calvinism of being Gnostic because it is Augustinian (link). David answers the question, “Is Augustinian theology Gnostic, then?” with “an emphatic YES!” While it seems that Jnorm888 at Ancient Christian Defender is happy about this unjustified claim (link), I presume others (particular those of our Roman…
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Nazareth Residence Found
There’s no reason to think it was Jesus’ residence, but if there were any skeptics out there who thought to themselves, “Nazareth wasn’t inhabited in Jesus’ day,” (and I seem to recall one telling me that on a previous occasion) that excuse for not believing in Christ has been taken away (link). As we learn…
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Sola Ecclesia – A Reformation Maxim?
We normally refer to sola ecclesia as Rome’s alternative to sola scriptura. Dr. Bruce Atkinson (Psy. PhD) proposes it as an addition to the five Reformation solas: 5. Sola ecclesia (through the church alone) – This newly recognized sola is needed to battle the extreme individualism and anti-church sentiment that is becoming more and more…