by Matthew Gaetano I’m continuing the series on Contenson’s seventeenth-century Thomist meditations on Christ’s Passion. Part 1 is here. Speculation 1: The Fourfold Excess in the Passion of Christ: Of Sadness, Dejection, Pain, and Love The human race labors in a threefold disease: the lust (concupiscentia) of the eyes, that is, vain pleasure; the pride… Read More Contenson and the Passion of Christ
by Matthew Gaetano Article 5 of the Colloquy of Regensburg–its statement on justification–is a famous moment in the history of dialogue between Roman Catholics and Protestants. A while ago, we published a rough translation of the agreement on original sin. I’ve provided here a translation of Articles 1 through 3 on the state of innocence,… Read More Articles 1-3 of the Colloquy of Regensburg
The Regensburg Forum is pleased to feature a series of posts by Jonathan Tomes, beginning with explorations in the development of nature and grace in Reformed Orthodox thought. Modern Reformed Protestants have not always been the most reliable on those points touching diversity in their tradition, though this historical myopia likely besets every tradition. Much… Read More Nature and Grace in Reformed Orthodoxy: Is there a Problem with the Narrative? (Or, on having your cake without the layers)
by Matthew Gaetano Pierre Bayle (d. 1706), the rather enigmatic Huguenot writer who had a profound influence on the Enlightenment, expressed considerable frustration with the fine distinctions that often features in scholastic theology, whether Roman Catholic or Reformed. The Regensburg Forum seeks to take those details seriously, as it talks about those Calvinists, Thomists, Jansenists, and others… Read More Jansenism and Augustinianism on the Irresistibility of Grace