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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

By
Wim François
Edited by
Kenneth G Appold  and
Nelson Minnich
Kenneth G Appold
Affiliation:
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
Nelson Minnich
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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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 - 217
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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