Saul the Calovian

LCC 🇨🇦

me, O God, with hatred of heretics”

[Dogma 🦢 @Dogmaticist]

“whether the justifying grace of GOD can take place without any infused gifs — which not only Durandus, Occam, Scotus, Biel, Petrus de Aliaco, Gregor. Ariminens., as cited by Vasquez, Disp. 206. c. 1., assert — but also Johannes Medina, in 1. 2. q. 110. art. 2., contends from the opinion of ALL theologians that GOD could most rightly justify a person without infused habits. Scotus and the Nominalists certainly contend that without any infusion of a gif and without any intrinsic change of the person — the stain of sin can be blotted out and abolished, either through the mere condemnation of sin, or through the purely extrinsic acceptance and benevolence of GOD. This position of Scotus against the Thomists Joannes Rada, Bishop of Paciensis, establishes at length, in controverf. Scot. part. II. Contr. XIX. p. 499.”
— Bl. Abraham Calov, Exegema of the Augsburg Confession. Art. IV, Cap. VII.

[Samuel 🕊️ @logos_asarkos]

"[T]hat guilt of transgression, which the law alone, that is, the letter without the spirit, by its commanding produced, is dissolved by believing, and by the violence [or force] of faith the Holy Spirit is obtained; through whom, with charity poured out in our hearts, the law is fulfilled not through fear of punishment, but through love of righteousness."

— Bl. Augustine, De fide et Operibus (21.39)

[Justified Concordian🦬 @Just_apologist]

Redeemed Zoomer is banning Confessional Lutherans from his discord for holding to Lutheran beliefs (ELCA is unhealthy to be in, it’s not Lutheran, it’s Antichrist etc.)

[Dogma 🦢 @Dogmaticist]

Discord server popping off with gems today

[Saul the Calovian @SaultheCalovian]

@thesolafeed Man i really gave him PTSD 💀

[Dogma 🦢 @Dogmaticist]

God tramples Thomism under His feet.

[. @vertiasluxmea]

"The first (opinion) simply affirms that God can make man pleasing and beloved to himself, without inherent grace. This was the opinion of the ancient Theologians.

[...]

The same way Capreolus seems to have thought in I, d. 17, quest. 1, art. 3, to the
arguments of Gregory; for he says that man is not therefore accepted by God, because he has the quality of grace, but rather on the contrary, because God accepts him, he gives him the quality of grace."—Francisco Suarez

[Saul the Calovian @SaultheCalovian]

@DoorDashThomist Do you agree?

[Saul the Calovian @SaultheCalovian]

@Moe_the_Monk Still coping about 1812 😝

[Average Lutheran @averagelutheran]

Friedemann Bechmann on the struggle with sin(D. Joh. Olearii Theologiam Moralem Annotationes, tab. XV):

"To understand more correctly the nature of this struggle, it must be noted that the flesh — or corrupt nature — is of such a character that, as such, it cannot but sin or betray depraved desires. Meanwhile, the law requires the most perfect obedience with respect to its parts and degrees — which man after the fall cannot render. Therefore God in his evangelical equity condescends, as it were, to the regenerate and retains them in grace — provided they do not give free rein to the desires of the flesh — and also equips the regenerate with new powers through which they can resist evil desires, produce good works, and so order their life that they may be preserved in God's grace."

[Saul the Calovian @SaultheCalovian]

@JayDyer @majestyofreason What about me?

[Saul the Calovian @SaultheCalovian]

@saint_trae35891 @GerhardsGhost @JohnTzimiskes97 Dm me somewhere else I can’t type much on here

[Saul the Calovian @SaultheCalovian]

@dannyphiltalk What’s the argument

[Saul the Calovian @SaultheCalovian]

@saint_trae35891 @GerhardsGhost @JohnTzimiskes97 Check discord

[Saul the Calovian @SaultheCalovian]

“And faith, resting with full certainty in the merit of Christ, causes works to please God; for God regards our works not as they are in themselves, according to the strictness of the law, but regards them in the Son.”

— Abraham Calov, On the Essence of Good Works p. 5

[Saul the Calovian @SaultheCalovian]

@Nihilo_99 @logos_asarkos True !

[Samuel 🕊️ @logos_asarkos]

“The Remonstrants object vainly: that only the power of believing is infused by God, but the act of faith is freely elicited by the will itself. But however much we do not deny freedom to the will, which is natural to it, yet we most sharply deny that freedom in spiritual things comes in any way to man after the fall by nature. Hence here God's grace provides not only that one CAN believe, but also that one ACTUALLY believes.”

— Bl. Abraham Calov, Consideratio Arminiasmi, ch. 17 disp. 18, § 11

[Saul the Calovian @SaultheCalovian]

@Econotheist @logos_asarkos And Johannes Olearius we have a work from him translated

[Saul the Calovian @SaultheCalovian]

@Econotheist And Systema 2