Cajetan on Sacred Doctrine

Cajetan on Sacred Doctrine
Author: Hieromonk Gregory Hrynkiw
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-10-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 081323347X

Cardinal Tommaso de Vio (1469-1534), commonly known as Cajetan, remains a misunderstood figure. Cajetan on Sacred Doctrine is the first ever monograph on Cajetan as a theologian in his own right, and it fills an immense lacuna in the debate on the nature of sacred doctrine from the Thomism of the Renaissance. Confirming Cajetan as a key protagonist within the emergent Reformation, this work delivers an indispensable immersion into his theological method in relation to his closest predecessors and contemporaries: Hervaeus Natalis, Blessed Duns Scotus, Gregory of Rimini, Johannes Capreolus, Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio, Martin Luther, and others. The first ever commentary on St. Thomas Aquinas’s entire Summa Theologiae was published by Cajetan. This monograph focuses primarily on the Summa Theologiae Ia pars, question 1, concerning sacred doctrine, and how Cajetan unpacks the potency of Aquinas’s opening syllogism, setting forth a coherent division of the question, and ultimately touching the mind of Aquinas when revealing the articles of the Apostles’ Creed as the Summa Theologiae’s macrostructure. Finally, we are shown how Cajetan emphasizes the essential link between ecclesiology and the communication of sacred doctrine, especially the papacy’s role in guaranteeing the proposal and explication of the faith. Cajetan’s accomplishments as a biblical exegete established him as a renowned Renaissance scholar and a forerunner of future ecumenical dialogue. Furthermore, his grasp of theology’s perennial properties continue to make him an important interlocutor in the renewed quest for a unity in theology in an ever more fragmented aggregation of theologies. Cajetan’s theological labor is a perpetuation of the via antiqua, a biblical-theological worldview handed down through Tradition. St. Gregory the Theologian (329-390), the via antiqua’s preeminent Eastern representative and chief theological constructor of Christendom, offers the monograph’s author--himself a Byzantine Hieromonk--a prime opportunity for a few closing insights on the innate symphony between two very distant periods and distinct theological traditions within the one ecumenical Church.

The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity

The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity
Author: Henry Finch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781690639107

The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity is an important Puritan systematic theology in Christian, Reformed, or Calvinistic systematic theologies and yet, it might also be described as a formal Biblical theology. This work by Henry Finch rests comfortably on the bookshelf of Puritan theologies as those of Wolfgang Musculus, Peter Vermigli, Edmund Bunny, John Prime, and Girolamo Zanchi.Published in 1589 by Sir Henry French, member of Parliament, lawyer, and Puritan, the Sacred Doctrine of Divinity was written in Early Modern English, similar to Elizabethan or Shakespearean English.* This present work is the first translation into contemporary English of Sir Henry French's The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity.* Grammatical changes were necessary to adapt this work for contemporary readers, without theological license or correction, but balanced in an attempt to stay faithful to the original structure and theological impact.* Glosses and marginal commentary are annotated with the use of footnotes.* The text has been corrected for the usage of medial s (ſ), and v-initial/u-middle occurrences (e.g., haue for have, vpon for upon).* Usage of thy/thou are retained only in the section on the Lord's Prayer, as it seemed fitting to preserve the impact and feel of the original text.Uppercase He and Him reflect a common stylistic and reverential purpose, yet the reader should not infer a lack of respect on behalf of Puritans writing in the style of their day.

Aquinas on the Twofold Human Good

Aquinas on the Twofold Human Good
Author: Denis J. M. Bradley
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 625
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0813209528

Annotation. Against the background of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Bradley provides a detailed differentiation between Aristotle's and Aquinas's view on moral principles and the end of man.

Cajetan's Biblical Commentaries

Cajetan's Biblical Commentaries
Author: Michael O'Connor
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2017-01-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004325093

Remembered as the official who failed to keep Luther in the Catholic fold, Tommaso de Vio, Cardinal Cajetan (1469-1534) was a multi-faceted figure whose significance extends beyond those days in Augsburg. In the 1520s, he embarked on a labour of biblical commentary that occupied the final decade of his life, producing over a million words of translation and commentary. Offering an overview of this remarkable body of work, Michael O’Connor argues that Cajetan’s motive was the renewal of Christian living (more ‘Catholic Reform’ than ‘Counter-Reformation’), and that his method was a bold and fresh hybrid of scholasticism and Renaissance humanism, correcting the Vulgate’s errors and expounding the text almost exclusively according to the literal sense.

Thomas and the Thomists

Thomas and the Thomists
Author: Romanus Cessario, OP
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2018-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506405967

Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274) is one of the most important thinkers in the history of western civilization. A philosopher and theologian, a priest and preacher, Aquinas bequeathed to the world an enduring synthesis of philosophy, theology, and Christian spirituality. Aquinas championed the integration of faith and action, sound doctrine and right living, orthodoxy and orthopraxy. From the thirteenth century through the present day, his legacy has served as a blessing for the church and beyond. In the nearly eight hundred years since Aquinas’s death, his thought has been studied, interpreted, criticized, reinvigorated, and anointed as the exemplar of Catholic theology. Thomas and the Thomists, a new volume in the Mapping the Tradition series, serves as an introduction to the life of Aquinas, the major contours of his teaching, and the lasting contribution he made to Christian thought. Romanus Cessario and Cajetan Cuddy also outline the history of the Thomist tradition—the great school of Aquinas’s interpreters—from the medieval era through the revival of the Thomist heritage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume affords its readers a working guide to understanding the history of Aquinas and his expositors as well as to grasping their significance for us today.

Cajetan Responds

Cajetan Responds
Author: Tommaso de Vio Cajetan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1610975693

Jared Wicks makes available for the first time in English eleven controversial works of the Dominican theologian, Cardinal Cajetan. This collection gives, in full translation or synopsis, Cajetan's arguments against the claims and teachings of the early Reformation. It begins with his painstaking analyses of Luther's published views on purgatory, penance, and indulgences in preparation for the Augsburg meeting of 1518, and follows his work up to a belated appeal in 1534 begging King Henry VIII to correct the scandalous error of his divorce and remarriage. The genre is controversial theology, where the author analyzes the position of a doctrinal adversary and marshalls arguments in refutation. Where many early Catholic defenders attempted line-by-line rebuttals of Luther's tracts, Cajetan isolated major dogmatic issues and clustered his theological arguments around a few central convictions. He placed a high premium on clarity of conception and avoided all semblance of polemic against personalities. Cajetan was no ordinary Reformation controversialist, and his works deserve the attention of anyone seeking a clear grasp of the issues argued as the great confessional divide opened between Catholics and Protestants in the early sixteenth century.

On Divine Revelation: The Teaching of the Catholic Faith Vol. One

On Divine Revelation: The Teaching of the Catholic Faith Vol. One
Author: Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Publisher: Emmaus Academic
Total Pages: 953
Release: 2022-05-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1645851567

In On Divine Revelation—one of Garrigou-Lagrange’s most significant works, here available in English for the very first time—he offers a classic treatment of this foundational topic. It is an organized and thorough defense of both the rationality and supernaturality of divine revelation. He presents a careful yet stimulating account of the scientific character of theology, the nature of revelation itself, mystery, dogma, the grace of faith, the powers of human reason, false interpretations thereof (rationalism, naturalism, agnosticism, and pantheism), the motives of credibility, and much more. Though written a century ago, On Divine Revelation will restore confidence in theology as a distinct and unified science and return focus to the fundamental questions of the doctrine of revelation. It also serves as a salutary corrective to contemporary theology’s anthropocentrism and concern with what is relative in revelation and religious experience by reorienting our theological attention to what is most certain, central, and sure in our knowledge of divine revelation: the Triune God who has revealed his inner life and salvific will. Readers will see the great splendor of the gift of divine revelation: radiant with credibility before the gaze of reason and drawing our supernatural assent to the mysteries through the gift of faith. As Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. observes, “On Divine Revelation . . . is a stunning work of inestimable value. No other subsequent work on this topic has come close to meeting it (much less surpassing it).”