Antoine ARNAULD, Pierre NICOLE
La perpetuité de la foy de l'eglise catholique touchant l'eucharistie deffendue contre le livre du sieur Claude
Chez Charles Savreux|à Paris 1669|18.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
First edition. Printer's device on title page, a vignette with the arms of Clement VI.
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Speckled brown sheep title label. One split at head. One white stain at tail. Rubbing. Good copy.
The work is a response to the book by the Protestant minister Claude, which was itself an attack on a book by Aubertin. The work of Arnaud and Nicole goes beyond the simple framework of polemic and contestation of the arguments in Claude's book; it aims to be an exhaustive treatise on the Eucharist and the mysteries of the holy mass by accumulating historical evidence, notably that borrowed from the Eastern church. Arnauld and Nicole, theologians of Port-Royal, made themselves champions of the religious quarrel against the Protestants. The Eucharist was an untouchable point of Catholic dogma; to deny it as the Protestants did was to call into question the principle of transubstantiation with the body of Christ and the possibility of grace, and to dismantle the rituals of the mass and its necessity. This is why the polemical literature on the Eucharist and grace is so important; the two churches would never cease to fuel it.
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Speckled brown sheep title label. One split at head. One white stain at tail. Rubbing. Good copy.
The work is a response to the book by the Protestant minister Claude, which was itself an attack on a book by Aubertin. The work of Arnaud and Nicole goes beyond the simple framework of polemic and contestation of the arguments in Claude's book; it aims to be an exhaustive treatise on the Eucharist and the mysteries of the holy mass by accumulating historical evidence, notably that borrowed from the Eastern church. Arnauld and Nicole, theologians of Port-Royal, made themselves champions of the religious quarrel against the Protestants. The Eucharist was an untouchable point of Catholic dogma; to deny it as the Protestants did was to call into question the principle of transubstantiation with the body of Christ and the possibility of grace, and to dismantle the rituals of the mass and its necessity. This is why the polemical literature on the Eucharist and grace is so important; the two churches would never cease to fuel it.
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