MARQUETTE HISTORY OF THEOLOGY VOLUME II: LATE MEDIEVAL TO 1800 Edited by Patrick Carey In Collaboration With Michel René Barnes Alexander Golitzin Mickey Mattox Marcus Wriedt David Schultenover Wanda Zemler-Cizewski 1 CONTENTS SECTION I: LATE MEDIEVAL THEOLOGY, 1350-1500 Jean Gerson ............................................................ 1 On Mystical Theology .............................................. 2 Jean Gerson: Selections from A Deo exivit, Contra curiositatem studentium and De mystica theologia speculativa, ed. and trans. Steven E. Ozment, Textus Minores, vol. 38 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1969), 47–73, 85–89. Gabriel Biel ........................................................... 13 The Circumcision of the Lord ....................................... 14 Heiko Augustinus Oberman, Forerunners of the Reformation: The Shape of Late Medieval Thought (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966), 165–74. Desiderius Erasmus ..................................................... 22 The Praise of Folly ................................................ 23 Karl F. Thompson, ed., Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation, 3rd ed., Classics of Western Thought, vol. 2 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1980), 286–302. Excerpts from Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, trans. by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson (copyright 1941 © 1969 by Princeton University Press; Princeton Paperback, 1970), 16–125. SECTION II: BYZANTINE CHURCH, 1350-1800 Nicholas Cabasilas ...................................................... 36 The Life in Christ ................................................. 37 Nicholas Cabasilas, The Life in Christ, trans. Carmino J. deCatanzaro (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1974), 43–63. St. Seraphim of Sarov ................................................... 49 A Conversation of St. Seraphim of Sarov .............................. 49 A Treasury of Russian Spirituality, ed. George P. Fedotov (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1948), 266–79, 496–97. SECTION III: THE REFORMATION TO TRENT, 1500-1570 Martin Luther .......................................................... 59 The Freedom of a Christian ......................................... 62 Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings, ed. Timothy F. Lull (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989), 595–629. John Calvin ........................................................... 83 Institutes of the Christian Religion ................................... 86 John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Battles, The Library of Christian Classics, vol. XX–XXI (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1960 ), 244–52, 254–55, 920–32. Thomas De Vio Cajetan ................................................. 106 Faith and Works—against the Lutherans .............................. 107 Cajetan Responds: A Reader in Reformation Controversy, ed. and trans. Jared Wicks, S.J. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1978), 219–239, 290–292. Ignatius of Loyola ..................................................... 123 The Spiritual Exercises ........................................... 123 Karl F. Thompson, ed., Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation, 3rd ed. , Classics of Western Thought, vol. 2 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1980), 568–75. The 2 Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, trans. Charles Seager (London: Dolman, 1847), 1–4, 15–17, 25–26, 173–85. The Council of Trent ................................................... 131 Decree Concerning Justification .................................... 131 Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, trans., Rev. H. J. Schroeder, O.P. (St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1941), 29–46. SECTION IV: BAROQUE ERA AND CONFESSIONALISM, 1570-1700 Robert Bellarmine ..................................................... 144 On the Word of God ............................................. 146 Selections from Robert Bellarmine on Scripture and Tradition. From Roberti Bellarmini Opera omnia (Naples: Apud Josephum Giuliano, 1836) vol. I, trans. John Patrick Donnelly, S.J. Jacobus Arminius ...................................................... 159 A Declaration of the Sentiments of Arminius .......................... 160 The Works of James Arminius, The London Edition, vol. 1, trans. James Nichols and William Nichols (1825; rprt. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1986), 653–58. The Canons of the Synod of Dort ......................................... 167 Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, 6th ed. (1919; rpt. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1966), 3:581–97. William Ames ........................................................ 179 The Marrow of Theology .......................................... 180 John D. Eusden, ed., The Marrow of Theology, William Ames 1576–1633 (Boston; Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1968), 149–74. Johann Gerhard ....................................................... 200 “Image of God in Man,” from Loci Theologici ......................... 201 Herrman A. Preus and Edmund Smits, eds., The Doctrine of Man in Classical Lutheran Theology (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1962), 32–66. Blaise Pascal ......................................................... 221 The Provincial Letters ............................................ 222 Seventeenth Letter ......................................... 222 Eighteenth Letter .......................................... 233 Pascal: The Provincial Letters, trans. A. J. Krailsheimer (New York: Penguin Books, 1967), 259–98. François Turretin ...................................................... 239 Concerning the Decrees of God ..................................... 240 Reformed Dogmatics: J. Wollebius, G. Voetius, F. Turretin, ed. and trans. John W. Beardslee III, A Library of Protestant Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), 337–60. SECTION V: THE AGE OF PIETISM AND ENLIGHTENMENT, 1700-1800 Philipp Jakob Spener ................................................... 258 From the Pia Desideria ............................................ 259 Pietists: Selected Writings, ed. Peter C. Erb (New York: Paulist Press, 1983), 31–49. Reprinted with permission from Philipp Jakob Spener, Pia desideria, translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Theodore G. Tappert (Philadephia: Fortress Press, 1964), 87–122. 3 Jonathan Edwards ..................................................... 272 Sermon I: “A Divine and Supernatural Light” .......................... 275 The Works of President Edwards, (1817–47; rpt. New York: Burt Franklin, 1968), 8:3–20. Matthew Tindal ....................................................... 289 Christianity as Old as the Creation .................................. 290 Matthew Tindal, Christianity As Old As the Creation (1730; rpt., Stuttgart: Verlag, 1967), 374–419, 431–32. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ............................................... 316 The Education of the Human Race .................................. 316 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Theological Writings, trans. Henry Chadwick (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1957), 82–98. Joseph Butler ......................................................... 330 The Analogy of Religion .......................................... 331 Bishop Butler, The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed (1736; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1906; rpt. 1927), xxiv–xxxii, 181–98, 245–53. Immanuel Kant ........................................................ 353 Critique of Pure Reason ........................................... 353 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Norman Kemp Smith (London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1956), 525–31. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .................................................. 359 CHRISTIAN WRITERS AND TEXTS ........................................... 362 SCRIPTURAL INDEX ....................................................... 366.