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A Defense of the Catholic Religion

The Existence, Necessity, and Limits of an Infallible Faith

By: Beda Mayr

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A Defense of the Catholic Religion

The Existence, Necessity, and Limits of an Infallible Faith

By: Beda Mayr

The Benedictine Beda Mayr,OSB, (1742?1794) was one of the main figures of the German Catholic Enlightenment. He was not only the first Catholic to wrestle with the challenges of Reimarus and Lessing, but also the first to develop an ecumenical methodology for a reunion of the churches. The text, translated from the German original for the first time, presents a theologian who intentionally went to the margins of orthodoxy in order to allow for more interconfessional dialogue. Mayr argued that Catholic theology should follow minority opinions for unsettled dogmatic questions, which would allow for easier union agreements with Protestant churches. Moreover, he suggested limiting ecclesial infallibility to directly revealed truths, thereby reducing the authoritative truth claims of conciliar or papal decisions. Although the study of Catholic Enlightenment is booming among historians and theologians, too few texts are available in reliable translations. A major strength of this edition is not only that its introduction introduces the reader to the colorful landscape of eighteenth-century theological discussions, but also presents the entire text of Mayr's book (with the exception of its appendix) thereby allowing the reader to see the strengths and weaknesses of Enlightenment ecumenism. Mayr's Limited Infallibility was put on the Index of Forbidden Books, on which it remained until the 20th Century. It invites readers to a modern, non-scholastic way of theologizing for the sake of Christian unity.

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CUA Press

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0813237734

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9780813237732

Beda Mayr, Vertheidigung Der Katholischen Religion (1789)

Sammt Einem Anhange Von Der Moglichkeit Einer Vereinigung Zwischen Unserer, Und Der Evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche

By: Beda Mayr

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Beda Mayr, Vertheidigung Der Katholischen Religion (1789)

Sammt Einem Anhange Von Der Moglichkeit Einer Vereinigung Zwischen Unserer, Und Der Evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche

By: Beda Mayr

Despite the importance the monks had as carriers of programmatic Enlightenment ideas, few of their original texts are available in modern editions. This edition contributes to filling this lacuna by publishing Dom Beda Mayra (TM)s (1742a "1794) ecumenical Catholic theology.

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BRILL

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9004173188

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9789004173187

Epistola Bede ad Ecgbertum Episcopum

By: Beda (Heiliger)

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Epistola Bede ad Ecgbertum Episcopum

By: Beda (Heiliger)

A scholarly and detailed but readable presentation of four key texts which shed light on the activity of the Venerable Bede (659-735) and the world of Early Medieval Northumbria.

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0198207611

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9780198207610

Bede : a Biblical Miscellany

By: Beda (Heiliger)

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Bede : a Biblical Miscellany

By: Beda (Heiliger)

Cited today as the first historian of the English, the Venerable Bede (ca. 673-735) was known in his own time primarily as a commentator on Holy Scripture. Taking seriously the insights of both ancient schools of biblical exegesis, the Antiochene and he Alexandrian, Bede was as proficient at explaining the plain sense of difficult scriptural texts as he was at discerning the figurative or allegorical significance. This volume contains six of Bede's shorter biblical writings, most of which appear here in translation for the first time. Taken together, they reveal his amazing versatility. On Tobias shows his skill as an allegorist, while On the Resting Places, Thirty Questions on the Book of Kings, and On Eight Questions reveal his fascination with the logical puzzles posed by Scripture's literal sense. On the Holy Places is an exegetical tool conveying information about the geography of the Holy Land that Bede considered indispensable for an adequate understanding of biblical revelation. In aletter On What Isaiah Says, Bede refutes a heretical understanding of Scripture in an attempt to build up the faith of the Church.

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Liverpool University Press

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0853236836

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Bede, The Reckoning of Time

By: Beda (Venerabilis.),Beda Venerabilis (helgon.),el Venerable Beda (Santo),Bede Venerabilis Staff,Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735

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Bede, The Reckoning of Time

By: Beda (Venerabilis.),Beda Venerabilis (helgon.),el Venerable Beda (Santo),Bede Venerabilis Staff,Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735

From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus -- the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction -- was a matter of intense concern. Bede's The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione) was the first comprehensive treatise on this subject and the model and reference for all subsequent teaching discussion and criticism of the Christian calendar. It is a systematic exposition of the Julian solar calendar and the Paschal table of Dionysius Exiguus, with their related formulae for calculating dates. But it is more than a technical handbook. Bede sets calendar lore within a broad scientific framework and a coherent Christian concept of time, and incorporates themes as diverse as the theory of tides and the doctrine of the millennium. This translation of the full text of The Reckoning of Time includes an extensive historical introduction and a chapter-by-chapter commentary. It will interest historians of medieval science, theology, and education, Bede scholars and Anglo-Saxonists, liturgists, and Church historians. It will also serve as an accessible introduction to computus itself. Generations of medieval computists nourished their expertise in Bede's orderly presentation; modern scholars in quest of safe passage through this complex terrain can hope for no better guide.

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0853236933

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A Defense of the Catholic Religion

A Defense of the Catholic Religion

Beda Mayr, Vertheidigung Der Katholischen Religion (1789)

Beda Mayr, Vertheidigung Der Katholischen Religion (1789)

Epistola Bede ad Ecgbertum Episcopum

Epistola Bede ad Ecgbertum Episcopum

Bede : a Biblical Miscellany

Bede : a Biblical Miscellany

Bede, The Reckoning of Time

Bede, The Reckoning of Time

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