Synopsis Purioris Theologiae / Synopsis of a Purer Theology: Latin Text and English Translation: Volume 3, Disputations 43 - 52

730 Pages·2.657 MB·English

by  Riemer A.. Faber, Andreas Beck, William den Boer

SynopsisPuriorisTheologiae
SynopsisofaPurerTheology
Studies in Medieval
and Reformation Traditions
Editedby
AndrewColinGow(Edmonton,Alberta)
Incooperationwith
SylviaBrown(Edmonton,Alberta)–FalkEisermann(Berlin)
BerndtHamm(Erlangen)–JohannesHeil(Heidelberg)–SusanC.
Karant-Nunn(Tucson,Arizona)–MartinKaufhold(Augsburg)
ErikKwakkel(Leiden)–JürgenMiethke(Heidelberg)
ChristopherOcker(SanAnselmoandBerkeley,California)
FoundingEditor
HeikoA.Oberman†
volume 222
Texts & Sources
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FalkEisermann(Berlin)
volume 9
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Contents
NotesonContributors vii
Acknowledgements x
ListofAbbreviations xii
Introduction 1
TheSynopsisofaPurerTheologyinItsHistoricalandTheological
Context 8
AndreasJ.BeckandDolfteVelde
TextandTranslation
Disputation43.OntheSacramentsinGeneral 94
Disputation44.OntheSacramentofBaptism 136
Disputation45.OntheLord’sSupper 172
Disputation46.OntheSacrificeoftheMassandItsAbuses 254
Disputation47.OntheFiveFalseSacramentsofthePapists 306
Disputation48.OnChurchDiscipline 372
Disputation49.OnEcclesiasticalCouncilsorMeetings 410
Disputation50.OntheCivilMagistrate 462
Disputation51.OntheResurrectionoftheBodyandtheLast
Judgment 508
Disputation52.OnLifeandDeathEverlastingandontheEndofthe
World 582
GlossaryofConceptsandTerms 625
Bibliography 635
vi contents
ScriptureIndex 669
GeneralIndex 679
Notes on Contributors
A.J.(Andreas)Beck
(1965),Ph.D.(2007)UtrechtUniversity,isProfessorofHistoricalTheologyand
Academic Dean at the EvangelischeTheologische Faculteit, Leuven, and the
director of the Institute of Post-Reformation Studies there. He is the author
ofGisbertusVoetius(1589–1676).SeinTheologieverständnisundseineGotteslehre
(Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht,2007),andauthororco-editorofnumerousarticles
andvolumesonmedievalandearlymodernhistory,theologyandphilosophy.
Recently,heeditedMelanchthonunddiereformierteTradition(Vandenhoeck&
Ruprecht,2016).SinceJune2014,heservesaschairoftheresearchgroupClassic
ReformedTheology.
H.(Henk)vandenBelt
(1971),Ph.D.(2006)LeidenUniversity,isProfessorof SystematicTheologyat
the VU University, Amsterdam. He is the author of The Authority of Scrip-
tureinReformedTheology:TruthandTrust(Brill,2008)andof severalarticles
onReformedOrthodoxyandonneocalvinism;heedited Restorationthrough
Redemption:JohnCalvinRevisited (Brill, 2013) and the second volume of the
SynopsisofPurerTheology(Brill,2016).
W.A.(William)denBoer
(1977),Ph.D.(2008)TheologicalUniversityApeldoorn,Postdoctoralresearcher
attheTheologicalUniversityKampen.HeisauthorofGod’sTwofoldLove.The
TheologyofJacobArminius(1559–1609)(Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht,2010),and
authororeditorofseveralbooksandarticlesonchurchhistoryandhistorical
theology.
S.(Simon)J.G.Burton
(1983),Ph.D.(2011)Universityof Edinburgh,isJohnLaingSeniorLecturerin
ReformationHistoryattheSchoolof Divinity,Universityof Edinburgh.Heis
theauthorofTheHallowingofLogic:TheTrinitarianMethodofRichardBaxter’s
MethodusTheologiae(Brill,2012),andhaspublishedanumberofarticlesand
bookchaptersonlatemedievalandReformedscholasticism.
R.A.(Riemer)Faber
(1961),Ph.D.(1992)Universityof Toronto.HeisProfessorof ClassicalStudies
attheUniversityof Waterloo.HisresearchinterestsincludeGreekandLatin
philology and literary criticism, and neo-Latin, and he has published widely
viii notes on contributors
in these fields.He servesas deputy editorof the CollectedWorksof Erasmus,
inwhichserieshepublishedErasmus’AnnotationsonGalatiansandEphesians
(UniversityofTorontoPress,2017).
P.J.(Philip)Fisk
(1959), Ph.D. (2015) Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, where he
is Senior Researcher and lecturer in Historical Theology. He is the author
of Jonathan Edwards’s Turn from the Classic-Reformed Tradition of Freedom
of theWill, New Directions in Jonathan Edwards Studies 2 (Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 2016), and has published peer-reviewed articles and contributed
bookchaptersonissuespertainingtoReformedOrthodoxy,JonathanEdwards,
andtheReformed-scholasticbackdroptotheHarvardandYalecurricula.
H.(Harm)Goris
(1960),Ph.D.(1996)CatholicTheologicalUniversityUtrecht,isAssociatePro-
fessorofSystematicTheologyattheSchoolofCatholicTheologyofTilburgUni-
versityandmemberof theThomasInstituteatUtrecht.Hisresearchfocuses
on the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Recently he co-editedTheVirtuousLife:
ThomasAquinasontheTheologicalNatureof MoralVirtues (Leuven: Peeters,
2017).
J.(Jeannette)Kreijkes-vanEsch
(1983), MA (2006) Greek and Latin Language and Culture,Leiden University,
teachesLatinandGreekatasecondaryschool.SheisalsoaPh.D.candidate
in the fields of ReformedTheology and Patristic Studies at the University of
Groningen,theNetherlands,andtheKULeuven,Belgium.Hercurrentresearch
projectfocusesonJohnCalvin’sexegeticaluseofJohnChrysostom.
C.J.(KeesJan)vanLinden
(1967),MA(ClassicalStudies,1991)LeidenUniversity.HeisaLatinandGreek
teacheratasecondaryschoolinKampen.Heispreparingadissertationonthe
Statenvertaling (1637) as a translation project in the context of seventeenth-
centuryEurope.Hisfieldsof interestarelinguistics,translationandhermen-
eutics.HeservedasaBibletranslationcoordinatorinGuinea(W-Africa)from
2000to2012.
M.(Matthias)Mangold
(1986),MA(2013)EvangelischeTheologischeFaculteit,Leuven,isaPh.D.can-
didate and a Research Assistant at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit,
Leuven.HiscurrentresearchprojectfocusesonSalomonvanTil(1643–1713),
aDutchReformedtheologianinthetimeoftheearlyEnlightenment.
notes on contributors ix
C.A.(Kees)deNiet
(1955),MA(DutchLanguageandLiterature,1979)LeidenUniversity;MA(Greek
andLatinLanguagesandCulture,1986)LeidenUniversity;PhD.(1996),Utrecht
University.HewasaLatinandGreekteacheratasecondaryschoolinAmers-
foorttill2020.HeistheeditorofGisbertusVoetius,Depraktijkdergodzaligheid
(ΤΑ ΑΣΚΗΤΙΚΑsiveExercitiapietatis—1664);tekstuitgavemetinleidingvertal-
ingencommentaar(DeBanier,1996)andauthorof severalarticlesonthelife
andworksofGisbertusVoetius.
P.L.(Pieter)Rouwendal
(1973),Ph.D.(2017)VUAmsterdamonPredestinationandPreachinginGenevan
Theology, From Calvin to Pictet. He is publisher at Summum Academic Pub-
lications,AssociateResearcheratTUKampenandthe(co-)authorof several
booksandarticlesonchurchhistoryandhistoricaltheology,including“Calvin’s
Forgotten Classical Position on the Extent of the Atonement: About Suffi-
ciency,EfficiencyandAnachronism”(WestminsterTheologicalJournal,2008),
andIntroductiontoReformedScholasticism(ReformationHeritageBooks,2011).
R.T.(Dolf)teVelde
(1974), Ph.D. (2010)Theological University Kampen, currently Associate Pro-
fessor of Systematic Theology at that university, and Associate Professor of
HistoricalTheologyattheEvangelischeTheologischeFaculteitLeuven.Heis
theauthorof TheDoctrineof GodinReformedOrthodoxy,KarlBarth,andthe
UtrechtSchool(Brill,2013),andofseveralarticlesonsystematicandhistorical
theology.Heco-editedReformedThoughtonFreedom(BakerAcademic,2010),
andisthevolume-editorofvol.1ofthepresentSynopsis-edition(2014).
A.(Antonie)Vos
(1944),Ph.D.(1981)UtrechtUniversity,emeritusProfessorattheEvangelische
Theologische Faculteit, Leuven. He has (co-)published widely in philosophy,
thehistoryofmedievalphilosophy,systematictheologyandthehistoricaltheo-
logyfromthesixteenthtotheeighteenthcentury,includingContingencyand
Freedom(Springer,1994),DunsScotusonDivineLove(Ashgate,2003),ThePhilo-
sophy of John Duns Scotus (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), TheTheology
ofJohnDunsScotus(Brill,2018),and JohnDunsScotus:ALife(SummumAca-
demic,2018).
Acknowledgements
On behalf of the research group Classic Reformed Theology (Oude Gerefor-
meerdeTheologie),theeditorswouldliketotakethisopportunitytoexpress
theirgratitudeforthesupportprovidedbyanumberofinstitutionsandindi-
viduals.
In particular, we thank the EvangelicalTheological Faculty, Leuven (etf),
the Theologische Universiteit Kampen (tuk), the Theologische Universiteit
Apeldoorn(tua),andtheGereformeerdeBond(ReformedLeague)intheProt-
estant Church in the Netherlands as founder of the special chair “Reformed
Theology:SourcesDevelopment,andContext”attheUniversityofGroningen
forsponsoringtheresearchgroupanditscurrentproject,thethree-volumeedi-
tionoftheSynopsisofaPurerTheology.
Besidesgivingfinancialsupport,theinvolvementof personnelfromthese
institutionsservedtopropelthisprojectinatimelyfashion.Wealsothankthe
TilburgSchoolof CatholicTheology,TilburgUniversity,forgenerouslyallow-
ingHarmGoristospendasubstantialpartofhisresearchtimeineditingthis
volume.
TheUniversityofGroningengenerouslysponsoredandhostedthepresenta-
tionofthesecondvolumeofthiseditionoftheSynopsisPuriorisTheologiaeand
asymposiumonNovember25,2016,titled“FromPredestinationtoPreaching.”
Additionalsupportforthissymposium,andforotheractivitiesoftheresearch
group,wasprovidedbytheNetherlandsSchoolforAdvancedStudiesinTheo-
logyandReligion(noster).
WethankStichtingJagtspoelFondsandtheGereformeerdeBond(Reformed
League)intheProtestantChurchintheNetherlandsforsubsidizingsomeof
the publication costs for this volume.The Hervormde Gemeente (Reformed
Congregation)ofWoudenbergisthankedforwelcomingtheClassicReformed
Theologyresearchgrouptouseitsfacilitiesforitsregularplenarymeetingsto
discussmattersoftranslation,annotation,andexplanation.
For effective organizational arrangement the research group was divided
intotwo(untilMay2017:three)teams,eachofwhichwasresponsibleforsuper-
visingtheproductionofthedisputationsthatcomprisetheSynopsis.Wewould
liketothanktheleadersofbothteamsfortheirroleincoordinatingtheactiv-
itiesof itsmembersandencouragingthemintheirtasks:HenkvandenBelt
and“teamA”andDolfteVeldeand“teamB.”WealsothankAntonieVos,who
sharedhisexpertiseinscholastictheologyandphilosophywithbothteams.
Themembersof theteamsarelistedintheNotesonContributors.Special
mentionismadeof thelateWillemJ.vanAsselt,whopassedawayon