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“Se houvesse uma proibição moral quanto ao uso de imagens ..., seguir-se-ia este absurdo: que toda a nossa faculdade cognoscitiva seria destruída. Pois ... a imaginação se realiza por meio de imagens.” – Balthasar Meisner, de Imaginibus, XXIII

Unfortunate that people care very little for theology posts unless they’re low-tier slop polemics.

Sola Scripturist ≠ Protestant

Another banger from Luther. 🔥

What does it mean that Christ was a Ransom? Three of the greatest Patristic commentators weigh in:

German Reformed theologian Amandus Polanus on the Lord's Supper: "To eat the body and drink the blood of Christ is to have communion with the true flesh and blood of Christ, and to be a participant in reconciliation, justification, regeneration, and, to say it even more clearly,

Protestant apologists when they find out some black holes have an "accretion disk":

“For Aristotle wrote concerning civil morals so learnedly that nothing further concerning this need be demanded.” - Apology of the Augsburg Confession (IV.14)

"Antithesis [...] II. OF THE CALVINISTS, such as Piscator in Luke chapter II. verse 28. asserting; "Our good works are procreating causes of blessedness"; Jacob ad Portum in Orthodox. faith defense. 33. p. 432. 433. "To be the efficient causes of the same"; Pareus on Luke 1.

"I reply: princes and magistrates ought to abolish impious forms of worship and to ensure that in the Churches true doctrine is taught and pious worships are set forth. This opinion I confirm with many clear arguments. ... The third argument is taken from the office of the

Central to the battle of the Reformation was the doctrine of justification. How are sinners made into saints? The Apology to the Augsburg Confession, written during and after the 1530 Diet of Augsburg, offers a brilliant defense on the bible’s answer https://t.co/qGtO3lEiKe

St. Bonaventure (II Sent dist. 33, q. 1, a. 1) “In [Adam] all human nature and all his posterity were obliged to something, i.e. to have the rectitude of justice or not to covet [non concupiscendum], and in him all were deprived of that righteousness through his turning away.”

St. Augustine on the remission of guilt and the infusion of charity: “[T]he Pelagians may think that I meant that such perfection [of charity] can be attained in this mortal life. But they should not think this, for the fire of charity which has become capable of following God

“OBJ. (1) James 1:15: ‘Concupiscence, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin.’ Therefore, concupiscence without consent is not yet a sin. RESP. (a) The Cardinal's mother, when she had conceived, gave birth to a man (Bellarmine). Was Bellarmine's mother therefore not yet a

"Spandau Noble Mass" - Carl Röhling, 1913

"'When you think about Obrigkeit, about princes or lords,' Melanchthon wrote, 'picture in your mind a man holding in one hand the tables of the Ten Commandments and holding in the other a sword. Those Ten Commandments are above all the works which he must protect and maintain,'

"Since one God is the God of everyone, he has justified everyone on one basis. What, then, is the advantage of circumcision of the flesh? Or what is the disadvantage of uncircumcision, when nothing but faith grants status and merit?" - Ambrosiaster, Comm. on Rom. 3:30

"whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith" - Romans 3:25 "The apostle says this because in Christ God proposed—that is, resolved—that he would be propitious to the human race, if they believed." - Ambrosiaster, Comm. on Rom. 3:25

The 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 Church that had the authority to develop the episcopate into an office distinct from the presbyterate in response to heresy and persecution in earlier times also has the authority to dissolve the episcopate in response to heresy and persecution in latter times.

"There is no obscurity in the words of the Apostle, but in the soul of Bellarmine." - Johann Gerhard, Loci Theologici, Locus XIX, Chapter VII, §88.