System of Sacred Theology · §2.8.5 · Ludwig Crocius

IV recent. Fewer openly deny; Amalric of Paris; Pope John XXIII; Libertines per Calvin

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IV. From the more recent who profess Christ's name, not indeed so many proceed to that temerity and profanity that they openly deny the resurrection of the flesh: yet there are not lacking those who are not ashamed to call back from hell the ancient heresies interpolated and crusted over even in this part of doctrine. Under the emperor, son of Ahenobarbus, Amalric the Paris doctor, having embraced this error among others, was burned at Paris with companions and followers. Pope John XXIII denied the resurrection of the flesh just as he denied the immortality of the soul.

Concerning the Libertines arisen in our fathers' memory, having many things in common with Cerdo, Valentinus, and Marcion, the great John Calvin (Instruction chapter 3): Whatever, he says, Christians hold concerning eternal life, concerning the resurrection, is a fable to them. For they imagine this — that the human soul, which is God, returns to itself when death has come, not so that it may live as a human soul but as God himself. And chapter 22: They laugh, he says, at every hope which we have concerning the resurrection, and say that what we still await has already happened to us.

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IV. Ex recentioribus Christi nomen professis, non ita quidem multi eo temeritatis ac profanitatis procedunt, ut resurrectionem carnis inficientur aperte: attamen non desunt, qui veteres haereses etiam in hac doctrinae parte interpolatas & incrustatas ab orco revocare non verecundantur. Imperatore Aenobarbi filio, Almaricus Parisiensis Doctor hunc errorem inter alios amplexus, Lutetiae cum sociis & sectatoribus exustus est. Johannes XXIII. Papa Romanus ut immortalitatem animae, sic & carnis resurrectionem negavit. De Libertinis patrum nostrorum memoria exortis, & multa cum Cerdone, Valentino & Marcione communia habentibus, magnus Johannes Calvinus Instructionis cap. 3. Quicquid, ait, Christiani de vita aeterna, de resurrectione tenent, ipsis fabula est. Hoc enim imaginantur, animam hominis, quae est Deus, ad seipsam redire, cum ad mortem ventum est, non ut tanquam anima humana, sed tanquam Deus ipse vivat. Et cap. 22. Rident, inquit, spem omnem, quam de resurrectione habemus, idque jam nobis evenisse dicunt, quod adhuc exspectamus.

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