John C. Rager, Democracy and Bellarmine , is a scholarly exploration of Bellarmine's ideas on government and their influence on the American Declaration of Independence. An examination of Bellarmine's philosophy is in E. All rights reserved. Home Biography St.
Robert Bellarmine St. Robert Bellarmine. Robert lectured preached and studied for the next seven years. In , Bellarmine was ordained to the priesthood and appointed to a professorship at Louvain, the first Jesuit to hold such a post. For six years he lectured on the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, preached regularly and taught himself Hebrew. He wrote a Hebrew grammar text to help his students, which became very popular. All this was too much and Bellarmine suffered a serious breakdown.
He was recalled to Rome although St. Charles Borromeo tried to lure him to Milan. Its purpose was apologetical: to defend the church against the attacks of Reformers. Bellarmine would hold this post for 11 years, until It was during this time that he wrote his classic work, " Disputations on the Controversies of the Christian Faith", in four large volumes. To this day, it is considered one of the most important texts of Catholic theology ever written.
Three hundred years after its publication, it was called "the most complete defense of the Catholic teaching". The disputations were rewritten to defend the church against " The Centuries of Magdeburg", a Protestant series which purported to prove that Protestantism represented the church of the apostles in all Christian centuries. In such a period of controversy, tempers were always high and personal attacks were constant. The result of this was that the "Disputations" became the basic text for all controversies used by Catholic and Protestant leaders alike.
One English bookseller of the day said: " I have made more money out of this Jesuit than out of all the other divines put together. He was sent on many papal delegations even suffering the siege of Paris in The Council of Trent felt that the " private interpretation of Scripture" proposed by the Reformers was very dangerous for doctrinal purity.
It suggested that the Pope take the responsibility for preparing an official version of the Bible so that a consistent text would be available to all scholars. Sixtus V, unfortunately, decided to prepare the text himself. Unfortunately, his text was found to be inaccurate and unusable. The Church had used St. It was time to apply the advances in Scriptural understand to a new official text. It is only in the last few years that work has begun on a modern text of the Vulgate. The significance of this is great.
For centuries, all translations of the Bible into the vernacular were done from the Vulgate text e. Today, many new translations are based on the original languages: Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. These translations are one level closer to the original texts than the Latin Bible.
However, Bellarmine still makes his contribution. During these years, St. He continues to be one of the most powerful men in the Church, yet insisted on living the life of a simple priest. It was here that he met and directed the young Aloysius Gonzaga.
So deeply attached was he to the future patron saint of youth, he called him "my dear ghostly child" and directed in his will that he be buried at the feet of the young saint. The story is told that Saint Robert reveled in the living community life. He washed the dishes after every evening meal! Soon Robert was mad e rector of the Roman College. The Pope commissioned him to write two catechisms of Catholic doctrine.
Luther had invented the Catechism style to propagate Protestant theology. The first was the instruction manual used by Jesuit missionaries all over the world. It was translated into sixty-two languages. Robert Bellarmine Feast day: Sep Latest news. Stats show Irish women benefit from waiting period before abortion, observers say. Cuban bishops back freedom of expression ahead of protests. New resource informs doctors about abortion pill reversal.
Pope Francis: Governments must act urgently against child pornography. Liturgical Calendar Show this year. Nov I am a year-old woman, and I am completely bald. Cancer treatment does that. I had…. Most people would assume that water beads as tiny as pinheads are useless and worthless.
But add water, and they fluff up to be…. About Contact More. Robert Bellarmine, SJ This video, produced by the Apostleship of Prayer, offers some words by Robert Bellarmine.
0コメント