Beyond Dordt and \_\_De Auxiliis\_\_: The Dynamics of Protestant and Catholic Soteriology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

An exploration of post-Reformation inter-confessional theological exchange between Reformed, Dominican, Arminian, and Jesuit theologians on controversial soteriological topics. These essays bring theological works into meaningful points of contact in a European-wide struggle with the legacy of Augustine. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Notes on Contributors Chapter 1 Introduction: Augustinian Soteriology in the Context of the Congregatio De Auxiliis and the Synod of Dordt Chapter 2 Calvin and Aquinas Reconsidered 1 Aquinas’s Appearance in Calvin’s Corpus 1.1 Inst. cap ii (1539) [Inst. ii.ii.4 (1559)] 1.2 Inst. cap. 8 (1539) [Inst. iii.xxii.9 (1559)] 2 Martin Bucer—Source of Thomas? 3 A Nominalist Spin on Thomas? 4 Conclusion Chapter 3 Domingo Báñez and His Dominican Predecessors: the ‘Dominican School’ on the Threshold of the Controversy De Auxiliis 1 Cardinal Cajetan and the Mystery of Providence and Predestination 2 Domingo de Soto and the Removal of God’s Help 3 Domingo de Soto and Reprobation 4 Bartolomé de Medina and the Universal Offer of Grace 5 Conclusion Chapter 4 Spanish Thomists on the Need for Interior Grace in Acts of Faith 1 Infused and Acquired Faith in the Middle Ages 2 The Dispute over Faith in Scripture 3 Dispute over Acquired Faith 4 Conclusion Chapter 5 Predestined a Passible Redeemer: Scientia Media in Early Modern Christologies 1 Christ and the Fundamentum Electionis in Reformed Theology 2 Jesus Christ and the Signa Rationis in Catholic Theology 3 Predestination and Passibility 4 Conclusions Chapter 6 Arminius’s ‘Conference’ with Junius and the Protestant Reception of Molina’s Concordia 1 Arminius and the Question of Molinism in Review 2 Arminius and Junius: the Documents and the Chronology 3 The Amica collatio and Arminius’s Development toward Molinist Scientia media 4 Some Conclusions Chapter 7 ‘In the Footsteps of the Thomists’: an Analysis of Thomism in the Junius-Arminius Correspondence 1 Biographical and Theological Context 1.1 De Politiae Mosis Observatione (1593) 1.2 De Theologia Vera (1594) 1.3 Arminius’s Development 2 The Junius-Arminius Correspondence 3 Conclusion Chapter 8 Scientia Media: the Protestant Reception of a Jesuit Idea 1 Early Protestant Uses of Scientia Media 1.1 Arminius on Scientia Media, Redux 1.2 Vorstius on Scientia Media 2 Remonstrant Theologians on Scientia Media 2.1 Grevinchoven 2.2 Episcopius 2.3 De Courcelles 2.4 Limborch 3 Conclusions Chapter 9 Aquinas in Service of Dordt: John Davenant on Predestination, Grace, and Free Choice 1 Thomas Aquinas and the “Sounder Scholastics” 2 Definitions of Election, Predestination, and Reprobation 3 Order of Decrees 4 Grace and Free Choice 5 Thomas Aquinas against Jesuits and Arminians 6 Conclusion Chapter 10 Samuel Ward and the Defense of Dordt in England Chapter 11 Divine Causality and Human Freedom: Aquinas, Báñez, and Premotion after Descartes 1 Thomas Aquinas 1.1 Φύσις and the Question of Causality 1.2 Creation 1.3 Divine Artistry: Free Will and Divine Image 1.4 Grace and Predestination 2 Domingo Báñez 3 Creation and Cartesian Causality in the 17th Century 4 Conclusion Chapter 12 ‘The World Is Content with Words’: Jansenism between Thomism and Calvinism 1 Jansen’s Legacy between Calvinism and Thomism: 1619–1638 2 Appropriating Jansen after Ecclesiastical Censure: 1642–1700 3 Conclusion Chapter 13 Defending Grace: References to Dominicans, Jesuits, and Jansenists in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Reformed Theology 1 The Arminian Position and the Intraconfessional Debates: Gomarus 2 Remonstrants, Counter-Remonstrants, and the Synod of Dordt (1618–19) 3 André Rivet’s “Orthodox Catholic” 4 Voetius on Jesuits, Arminius, and Dominicans 5 Melchior Leydecker on Jansenism Chapter 14 Calvin against the Calvinists in Early Modern Thomism Bibliography Manuscripts Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index Front Matter -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Augustinian Soteriology in the Context of the Congregatio De Auxiliis and the Synod of Dordt /Jordan J. Ballor , Matthew T. Gaetano and David S. Sytsma -- Calvin and Aquinas Reconsidered /Charles Raith II -- Domingo Báñez and His Dominican Predecessors: the 'Dominican School' on the Threshold of the Controversy De Auxiliis /Stephen Gaetano -- Spanish Thomists on the Need for Interior Grace in Acts of Faith /Thomas M. Osborne Jr -- Predestined a Passible Redeemer: Scientia Media in Early Modern Christologies /Robert Trent Pomplun -- Arminius's 'Conference' with Junius and the Protestant Reception of Molina's Concordia /Richard A. Muller -- 'In the Footsteps of the Thomists': an Analysis of Thomism in the Junius-Arminius Correspondence /Jordan J. Ballor -- Scientia Media: the Protestant Reception of a Jesuit Idea /Keith D. Stanglin -- Aquinas in Service of Dordt: John Davenant on Predestination, Grace, and Free Choice /David S. Sytsma -- Samuel Ward and the Defense of Dordt in England /Stephen Hampton -- Divine Causality and Human Freedom: Aquinas, Báñez, and Premotion after Descartes /Reginald M. Lynch OP -- 'The World Is Content with Words': Jansenism between Thomism and Calvinism /Eric J. DeMeuse -- Defending Grace: References to Dominicans, Jesuits, and Jansenists in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Reformed Theology /Aza Goudriaan -- Calvin against the Calvinists in Early Modern Thomism /Matthew T. Gaetano -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index Beyond Dordt and 'De Auxiliis' explores post-Reformation inter-confessional theological exchange on soteriological topics including predestination, grace, and free choice. These doctrines remained controversial within confessional traditions after the Reformation, as Dominicans and Jesuits and later Calvinists and Arminians argued about these critical issues in the Augustinian theological heritage. Some of those involved in condemning Arminianism at the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) were inspired by Dominican followers of Thomas Aquinas in Spain who had recently opposed the vigorous defense of free choice by Jesuit Molinists in the Congregatio de auxiliis (1598-1607). This volume, appearing on the 400th anniversary of the closing of the Synod of Dordt, brings together a group of scholars working in fields that only rarely speak to one another to address these theological debates that cross geographical and confessional boundaries. -- Provided by publisher, page 4 of cover