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Particular applications of the distinction between Law and Gospel sometimes cause controversy and give rise to criticism. At the level of the basic distinction itself, however, I should think that most of that controversy would dissipate. Shortly after the definition of “the Gospel” quoted here previously, Niels Hemmingsen gives such a basic, concise summary of […]
Now that Contarini has finished his discussion of the multiple senses of “faith” (fides), he appends a note on the multiple sense of “to justify” even when it is used efficiently–this is a further refinement of what he said earlier when, discussing the multiple sense of “to justify,” he divided the possibilities into “to justify […]
Niels Hemmingsen likes to define things. Herewith his definition of the Gospel from his Enchiridion Theologicum. The Gospel is a doctrine revealed by God, in which liberation from the curse of the Law and the wrath of God is announced and remission of sins, salvation, and eternal life to those who believe in the Son is […]
Niels Hemmingsen (yes, him again) thought so–particularly from God’s words in Genesis 3. At the beginning of the chapter of his Enchiridion Theologicum called Promissio Reparationis, sive Evangelium (“The Promise of Restoration, or the Gospel”) he discusses the teaching he believes to be present in Genesis 3:15, which, he says, is the first place in which […]
In his discussion in the Enchiridion Theologicum of “actual sin” (actuale peccatum), the fruit of “hereditary/original sin,” Niels Hemmingsen makes several divisiones, the first of which may be slightly confusing on an initial reading: the division between mortal and venial sin. While he keeps the traditional terminology, he differentiates the two kinds contingently rather than essentially. He […]
Herewith the next installment of a translation of Gasparo Contarini’s De Iustificatione. He here continues his discussion of the various senses of “faith” (fides). Translation John of Damascus says in his fourth book that “faith” is used in two senses, of which he says the one is assent, but the other he says is hope for […]
In his Enchiridion Theologicum, Niels Hemmingsen lists the sins he believes to have occurred together (concurrunt) in the Fall of our first parents. He finds that there were eight particular sins present: I. Doubt concerning the Word of God. II. Loss of faith, since they did not believe God when He was threatening punishments. III. Curiosity, […]
Another passage on the “Sinaitic legal covenant” that perhaps could be a little clearer in Giger’s translation. This is paragraph 24, the penultimate paragraph in the section. First, here is Giger: “The promise of the land of Canaan given to the people was not primary and principal, but only secondary and less principal (add by […]
Having discussed the multiple meanings of “justice” and “to make/be made,” Contarini now moves on to treat the various senses in which the word “faith” (fides) can be taken. In the passage included below, there are four types of “faith.” First, Contarini has the distinction between the faith that is believed (fides quae creditur) and […]
So, another sentence in Turretin’s Institutes of Elenctic Theology that struck me as odd in the published English translation (the translation itself is a little awkward and less clear than it might be, but I think that it is the punctuation in particular that was causing me difficulties). It comes at the end of the 15th […]