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A Defense of Free Will Against Luther
St. John Fisher
St John Fisher
其他書名
Assertionis Lutheranae Confutatio, Article 36
出版
CUA Press
, 2025-02-07
主題
Religion / Christianity / Catholic
Religion / Christian Theology / History
Religion / Christianity / Lutheran
ISBN
0813239087
9780813239088
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=A3U-EQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Lord Acton said that of all the works written against Martin Luther in the beginning of the Reformation, Bishop John Fisher of Rochester's
Assertionis Lutheranae Confutatio
of 1523 was the most important. Oddly enough this massive work of Catholic apologetics, compsed in Latin, has never been rendered into the English language. It contains Fisher's detailed responses to all forty-one articles defended by Martin Luther against the censures of Pope Leo X found in the bull
Exsurge Domine
(1520). In this volume Thomas Scheck presents for the first time in English translation, introduced, and annotated, Fisher's Preface to the Reader, Ten Truths, and the most important single article found in Fisher's
Confutation
, namely his
Confutation of Luther's Assertion
of Article 36, in which Fisher defends the existence of free will against Luther's claim that free will is a fiction with no reality. Fisher's reply is thoroughly grounded in Scripture and in the interpretation of Scripture found in the ancient Fathers of the Church. Interestingly to defend free will be makes abundant use of Augustine, Origen, Jerome, Tertullian and John Chrysostom. Luther's controversy with the Catholic Church over free will is well known today from his debate with Erasmus of Rotterdam, which is easily accessible in English. Less well known is the fact that Bishop John Fisher's reply to Luther preceded Erasmus's by one year and was used extensively by Erasmus himself in arguing against Luther's positions. Also noteworthy is that Bishop John Fisher's particular response to Luther was well known to the bishops and theologians at the Council of Trent (1545-1563) and appears to have influenced the formulation of Catholic dogma in the
Decree on Justification
, where free will is affirmed and the power of human resistance recognized. Bishop John Fisher was canonized along with St. Thomas More in 1935, 400 years after their bloody martyrdoms under King Henry VIII. Their mutual feast day is on June 22.