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Quakers who thus witnessed latter-day events taking place within themselves were thereby powerfully motivated to the god- ly life. The standard by which that life was measured was high, but if Christ had once lived a sinless life in the flesh it was altogether possible that He should do so again in His
assembled in his own work on the power of the keys (supra p. 40 n. 1). But again none of them affirms a doctrine of papal infallibility. 2 Two good modern surveys of Olivi's life and of the doctrinal controversies in which he was involved are C. Partee, "Peter John Olivi: Historical and Doctrinal Study
most illustrious products, "Rathbod was not only outstanding in his knowledge of the Scriptures, but also of very excellent character in the comportment of his life." For Rathbod teaching and living were of a unit, so that his own high standards of learned piety were eas ily and naturally transferred
the initial moment in the life of faith which, over and done with, will be followed by the process of renewal.S On the contrary, Calvin thinks of justification too as proceeding throughout the whole course of life, as a continual-indeed daily-requirement of the Christian life.9 Therefore it is
timely resignation of the previous abbot Johannes de Kolenhausen, Trithemius furnishes his readers with a brief resume of the life ofJohannes , replacement and namesake to the moment of his assumption of the Sponheim abbacy, Johannes of Trittenheim." Trithemius, as he relates his own story in the third
same. In all places great admiration and gratitude is expressed at how Trithemius has enrich ed his German soil with Latin , Hebrew, and Greek letters. So exceptional has been his contribution to the literary and cultural life of his homeland that when Gerbel racks his brain to come up with a possible
of Saragossa , who was living in the year 650 , compiled a celebrated work , which (as he himself makes plain in the proemium) he entitled Collection from the Works 01 St Grego 吵 ...In this work many passages from the Dialogues are presented ..." The argument of Goussainville and the later
the authority given to it extrinsically by the approbation of Pope St Gregory in the Dialogues and with its own intrinsic excellence , the Benedictine rule soon proceeded to supplant all rivals , to become the sole norm for Western monastic life and a chief factor in the Christianizing and
coming and the subsequent kingdom. In the Puritan ethos the quest for salvation was the pre-eminent issue of life, a drama that was played out, as Professor Haller remarks, in the theatre of each human breast. 140 "Election-vocation-justification-sanctifi- cation-glorification was more than an
his personal decisions were not opposed by prelates who owed their positions to him. The Duke of Burgundy's unswerving support for Eugenius IV was motivated, as was suggested earlier, not only by his opposition to Charles VII of France but also by his disappointment with a number of decisions of