Annotatio IV §.XII: Mejerus — Damascene author of new scholastic method; simple doctrine mutated
Guilty also of many later ‘scholastic’ terms rashly thrust into sacred theology — Mejerus names Damascene author of a new scientific method of treating Christian doctrine.
Thorny useless questions; new opinions as dogmas; rare appeal to Scripture; philosopher-formulas over sound words — and followers gradually turned the ancients’ simple doctrine into scholastic disputations.
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aliarum quoque plurimarum innovationum & Terminorum, scholasticorum deinceps dictorum, temerè satis sanctæ Religioni & Theologiæ Christianæ intrusorum reus, quin Autor postulatus à sæpius laudato Mejero, paragraphum tertium Sectionis suæ octavæ ita exorso: Capita prætereà hôc seculo nova ratio tractandi doctrinam religionis Christianæ, auctore Damasceno, qui eam, ad modum scientiæ, primus tradere instituit. Hic, omissis quibusdam momentosis articulis, spinosas & inutiles quæstiones in Theologiam intulit, novas doctorum opiniones, ut religionis Christianæ dogmata proposuit, rarius ad Scripturam provocavit; formam sanorum verborum neglexit, formulis philosophorum potiùs, quam theologorum antiquorum & scripturæ utens. Et quia plerique postsecuti Doctores istam tractandi rationem sunt amplexi, sensim simplex veterum de religione Christianâ doctrinæ ratio, mutata est in scholasticas disputationes. p. 174. & 175.