Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Reformation-Era Theology
- The Cambridge History of Reformation-Era Theology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One Theology in an Age of Cultural Transformation
- Part Two Schools and Emerging Cultures of Theology: Diversity and Conformity within Confessions
- 10 The Faculty of Theology of Paris (1474–1682)
- 11 The School of Salamanca
- 12 The Schools of Louvain and Douai: The Bible, Augustine, and Thomas
- 13 The Jesuit School of Theology
- 14 Theological Currents in Latin America (Sixteenth Century)
- 15 Diversity and Conformity within Early Lutheranism
- 16 Reformed Schools of Theology
- 17 Cultures of Theology in the British Isles
- 18 Radical and Dissenting Groups
- 19 Christian Ecumenical Efforts
- 20 Western “Confessions” and Eastern Christianity
- Part Three Topics and Disciplines of Theology
- Index
- References
12 - The Schools of Louvain and Douai: The Bible, Augustine, and Thomas
from Part Two - Schools and Emerging Cultures of Theology: Diversity and Conformity within Confessions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2023
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Reformation-Era Theology
- The Cambridge History of Reformation-Era Theology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One Theology in an Age of Cultural Transformation
- Part Two Schools and Emerging Cultures of Theology: Diversity and Conformity within Confessions
- 10 The Faculty of Theology of Paris (1474–1682)
- 11 The School of Salamanca
- 12 The Schools of Louvain and Douai: The Bible, Augustine, and Thomas
- 13 The Jesuit School of Theology
- 14 Theological Currents in Latin America (Sixteenth Century)
- 15 Diversity and Conformity within Early Lutheranism
- 16 Reformed Schools of Theology
- 17 Cultures of Theology in the British Isles
- 18 Radical and Dissenting Groups
- 19 Christian Ecumenical Efforts
- 20 Western “Confessions” and Eastern Christianity
- Part Three Topics and Disciplines of Theology
- Index
- References
Summary
The members of the faculty of theology in Louvain, which was founded in 1432, within the university that had been established there seven years prior, fully engaged in the controversies that raged in the first decades of the sixteenth century. The theologians debated the right method of doing theology with Erasmus, who lived in the university town from the summer of 1517. Erasmus and the humanists emphasized that theology should be based upon the Scriptures and the Church Fathers, while they distrusted Scholastic theology. The Louvain theologians, and Jacob Latomus (ca. 1475–1544) especially, retorted that the Scriptures did not contain every revealed truth and certainly not all of the liturgical and disciplinary traditions which had been handed down in the church from the apostolic era.
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- The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology , pp. 201 - 217Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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