Theological Journals, Part 4: 10/1/2022

William Whittaker’s “Disputation on Holy Scripture:” Dr. Whittaker gives his preliminary address at Cambridge regarding the energized combats and conflicts coming from Bellarmine, Allen at the Louvain, others at Douay, and the Jesuits more largely. Quite an animated, courteous, academic and hortatory address. Bellarmine is in the crosshairs as the premier inventor of new defenses of Trent. Game on! John Jewel’s “Apology for the Church of England:” the Preface to this volume outlines the pretentious claim that the Italian monk, Augustine, and his crew initiated Christianity in Britain in 597. The author of the preliminary discourse is having none of that, citing Origen, Tertullian and others, to wit, Christianity existed amongst the Celtic Britons. One occasionally still hears that revisionist narrative. ANF1—“Apostolic Fathers and Justin Martyr:” an outline was given of Ignatius’s letters to the Ephesians and Magnesians.