tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681199733115175432024-03-05T18:35:18.127-08:00Confessio CatholicaThis blog is dedicated exclusively to making available the Latin text of Johann Gerhard’s Confessio Catholica.Joseph Schmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14944836561247996150noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3068119973311517543.post-56829702375717064002010-04-16T12:55:00.000-07:002010-05-04T12:46:48.118-07:00Great Discovery!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I was looking on Wikipedia and discovered that Confessio Catholica is now available on Google Books!</span></span> <div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13;" ><ul style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; LIST-STYLE-IMAGE: url(http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/bullet.gif); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.5em; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; LIST-STYLE-TYPE: square"><li style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=FjJBAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_slider_thumb#">Confessio Catholica</a></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=FjJBAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_slider_thumb#"> </a>(Jena, 1634), volume 1</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: Introductory volume</span></span></li><li style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=BT1BAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_slider_thumb#v=onepage&q&f=false">Confessio Catholica</a></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> (Jena, 1634), volume 2/1</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: On the Word of God, Christ, the Roman Pontiff, councils, and the Church</span></span></li><li style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Vz1BAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_slider_thumb#v=onepage&q&f=false">Confessio Catholica</a></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> (Jena, 1636), volume 2/2</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: On clergy, monks, laity, purgatory, saints, sacraments, Baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, and the Mass</span></span></li><li style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.1em"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HD5BAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_slider_thumb#v=onepage&q&f=false">Confessio Catholica</a></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> (Jena, 1637), volume 2/3</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: On penance, extreme unction, sacrament of order, matrimony, the grace of the first man, sin, grace and free choice, justification, and good works</span></span></li></ul></span></div>Joseph Schmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14944836561247996150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3068119973311517543.post-55853531414796722712009-11-06T11:40:00.000-08:002009-11-06T11:41:57.774-08:00Text Files Available<span style="font-family:times new roman;">I was able to secure the text files for <em>Confessio Catholica</em> by going to UW-Madison. I will e-mail them to you if you so desire.</span>Joseph Schmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14944836561247996150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3068119973311517543.post-26470900497596706752009-09-16T12:44:00.001-07:002009-09-24T00:11:21.426-07:00Great News!<span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis is going to send me their copy of </span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Confessio Catholica</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> so I can take digital images of it!</span></span></span>Joseph Schmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14944836561247996150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3068119973311517543.post-85280245706501419642009-09-07T12:56:00.000-07:002009-09-07T16:29:41.828-07:00Status on Obtaining the Text<span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">I am still busy trying to get the text for </span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Confessio Catholica</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span></span><br /></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">1) I'm checking with my local public library to see if I can request a copy of the book from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span></span><br /></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">2) If I cannot get the book from Concordia Seminary I am going to see if the University of Minnesota will allow me to make digital photographs of the one they have in their rare book collection. I was initially going to go up there on September 3 & 4, but I called them just to make sure I could and they said the book has to be reviewed first. I did not want to drive an hour and a half to have the U of M tell me I could not make photographs of it.</span></span></span>Joseph Schmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14944836561247996150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3068119973311517543.post-47707052122919055102009-08-31T19:34:00.001-07:002009-08-31T19:38:50.178-07:00Team Members Welcome<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If anyone would like to participate in this blog just send your e-mail to me at jfschmidt@mchsi.com and I will add you to the list.</span></span>Joseph Schmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14944836561247996150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3068119973311517543.post-29651238873003454912009-08-29T04:00:00.001-07:002010-05-13T21:34:44.995-07:00Blog Mission Statement<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My purpose in starting this blog is to make the Latin text of Johann Gerhard’s</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Confessio Catholica</span></span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">readily available and perhaps speed up its translation. I have found the work very hard to come by as it is more often than not in the rare book collection of various university and seminary libraries.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u1:p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hopefully I will be heading to the</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">University</span></span></span></st1:placetype><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></st1:place></st1:placetype><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">of</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><st1:placename st="on"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><st1:placename st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Minnesota</span></st1:placename></span></span></st1:placename></st1:place><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">on September 3-4 to make digital photographs of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Confessio Catholica</span></i></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">in their rare book collection.</span></span></span></u1:p><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Over time I will type the Latin text and post it along with the digital images. This will be a massive project that may take several years due to the size of the work and time constraints (I believe the work is around 1,600 pages).</span></span></span></div></span>Joseph Schmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14944836561247996150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3068119973311517543.post-53696504835956545602009-08-29T03:39:00.000-07:002010-05-13T21:34:56.440-07:00What is Confessio Catholica?<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcF18Od5DvVAErNqouKvXIBsWmGyvo-PusdoEgaruYIojTBAUT40ybVApWNgyD-OeNaOjH2xYOjUXBAYco5b5kaG4XtEPO4Lx3pmPtS_01wV0eNbCUyx2BOvbXTFdFLALak5crdCcB53_Y/s1600-h/Johann_Gerhard.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375333792123665762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcF18Od5DvVAErNqouKvXIBsWmGyvo-PusdoEgaruYIojTBAUT40ybVApWNgyD-OeNaOjH2xYOjUXBAYco5b5kaG4XtEPO4Lx3pmPtS_01wV0eNbCUyx2BOvbXTFdFLALak5crdCcB53_Y/s320/Johann_Gerhard.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 283px; width: 240px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Confessio Catholica</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is one of the main works of German Orthodox Lutheran theologian </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gerhard" title="Johann Gerhard"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Johann Gerhard</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (1582 – 1637). It seeks to prove the evangelical and catholic character of the doctrine of the Augsburg Confession from the writings of approved Roman Catholic authors.</span></span><br />
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<em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Confessio catholica, in qua doctrina catholica et evangelica, quam ecclesiae Augustanae confessioni addictae profilentur, ex Romano-catholicorum scriptorum suffragiis confirmatur</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (4 parts, Frankfort and Leipsic, 1634-37), is based upon the </span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Catalogus testium veritatis</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> of Flacius. It is more comprehensive than its title denotes, being at the same time an extensive apology and polemic of the Evangelical Creed. The first part is general and treats the </span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">principia et media nostrae et pontificiae religionis</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. The other three volumes treat the disputed articles of faith in the order of Bellarmine, the controversialist </span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">par excellence</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span>Joseph Schmidthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14944836561247996150noreply@blogger.com0