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Often appears with: justice as a virtue · heresy, orthodoxy, and schism · withholding communion · vows versus baptism · the position of women · sexual ethics · schism defined as refusal to submit to the pope · religious persecution and toleration · rejection of ceremonies · reconciliation between cities · priestly marriage · porral as chief magistrate
Usually: argument (3) · detachment (2) · exhortation (2) · letter or document (1) · narrative (1) · deception discovered (1) · grief and loss (1) · reconciliation (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1)
“Now this Head is Christ Himself, Whose viceregent in the Church is the Sovereign Pontiff.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) · insight
“But the lesser, that is, the true Christian excommunication, consists in this, that manifest and obstinate sinners are not admitted to the Sacrament and other communion of the Church until they amend their lives and avoid sin.” Martin Luther, The Smalcald Articles · insight
“To prohibit marriage, and to burden the divine order of priests with perpetual celibacy, they have had neither authority nor right but have acted like antichristian, tyrannical, desperate scoundrels and have thereby caused all kinds of horrible, abominable, innumerable sins of unchastity.” Martin Luther, The Smalcald Articles · observation
“We do not concede to them that they are the Church, and [in truth] they are not [the Church]; nor will we listen to those things which, under the name of Church, they enjoin or forbid.” Martin Luther, The Smalcald Articles · insight
“Thereupon he spoke in such a luminous manner on the work of the ministry, and all the benefits which accompany or flow from it as the means of grace, that we were both of us in a sort of stupor of astonishment.” Jean Calvin, Letters of John Calvin, Volume I · vivid
Calvin tells the Lyons brethren that circumstances require them to write uncomfortable news, then explains their motives for recounting how a white friar was treated and how he complained after his reception.
and disparaging the holy apostle behind his back, in order to advance themselves, threw all in disorder, as we may see in the Epistles to the Corinthians and the Galatians. Towards the conclusion of the whole affair, this discreet and worthy man having made up his mind to [have nothing more to do with us,] and to be gone, came to one of us to clear himself, and principally with the view of justifying everything that…
In a June 16, 1542 letter from Geneva, Calvin recounts the deathbed of magistrate Porral, emphasizing his lucid Christian testimony, unity of the Church, and advice to seek reconciliation between allied cities.
GENEVA, *16th June 1542*. Would that I might attain to that discipline in contempt of this present life, and in the meditation of a holy death, as the experience of the past year, in the deaths of many pious persons, may well have brought me. Porral, the chief magistrate of the city, has departed to the Lord; his death, which could not be other than occasion of sadness to us, has been bitterly lamented. The manner o…
He says monastic vows must be abolished because they deny Christ by seeking a holier life and heaven by human works, and he calls claims of equality with baptism blasphemy.
IX. Of Excommunication. The greater excommunication, as the Pope calls it, we regard only as a civil penalty, and it does not concern us ministers of the Church. But the lesser, that is, the true Christian excommunication, consists in this, that manifest and obstinate sinners are not admitted to the Sacrament and other communion of the Church until they amend their lives and avoid sin. And ministers ought not to min…
Aquinas argues that charity, by uniting a person to God, is greater than mercy toward a neighbor, and he defines schism as intentional separation from the Church’s unity and refusal to submit to the Roman pontiff.
which is the effect of charity: because charity unites not only one person to another with the bond of spiritual love, but also the whole Church in unity of spirit. Accordingly schismatics properly so called are those who, wilfully and intentionally separate themselves from the unity of the Church; for this is the chief unity, and the particular unity of several individuals among themselves is subordinate to the uni…
Bacon argues for unity in religion, saying religious quarrels are worse than mere moral corruption, and that unity yields peace, strengthens faith and charity, and keeps heresies and schisms from driving people away.
Of Unity In Religion RELIGION being the chief band of human society, it is a happy thing, when itself is well contained within the true band of unity. The quarrels, and divisions about religion, were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was, because the religion of the heathen, consisted rather in rites and ceremonies, than in any constant belief. For you may imagine, what kind of faith theirs was, when the chie…