A contributor to TRF, Andrew Kuiper, has a post at Ex Fontibus that is the beginning of a series on Emile Mersch. The series should be of interest to many of our readers; it will address modern engagements with the patristic and medieval tradition, Pierre de Bérulle, theology of history, the mystical body of Christ,… Read More Emile Mersch (1890-1940)
by Matthew Gaetano In a previous post, I discussed Henri de Lubac’s criticism of the position of Bellarmine and Suarez on the pope’s power to depose Christian kings. Though he believed that such a position was already obsolete in the context of his own day, he called this position–quite widespread from the Middle Ages through… Read More John of Paris, the Deposing Power, and the Punishment of Heretics
by Matthew Gaetano In my previous post, I discussed theologians who offered interpretations of the doctrine of the two swords before the Second Vatican Council. While some hierocrats believed that the pope’s two swords made him lord of the world, Vitoria, Bellarmine, and Suarez argued that popes had indirect power in temporal matters. Papal power… Read More Henri de Lubac’s Criticism of Indirect Power