Church History, Volume 2 (of 3)Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
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Church History, Volume 2 (of 3)
Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
Church history
and blood, without muscles, sinews and bones. Against this gross
Capernaitic view (John vi. 52, 59) Gerhoch maintained that the
eucharistic body is the very resurrection body of Christ, the
substance of which is a glorified corporeity without flesh and
blood in a carnal sense, without sinews and bones. The bishop
of Bamberg took offence at his friend’s bold rejection of the
doctrine approved by the church, and so Folmar modified his
position to the extent of admitting that there was on the altar
not only the true, but also the whole body in the perfection
of its human substance, under the form of bread and wine.
But nevertheless both he and Abælard adhered to their radical
error, a dialectical dismemberment of the two natures of Christ,
according to which the divinity and humanity, the Son of God and
the Son of man, were two strictly separate existences. Christ,
they taught, is according to His humanity Son of God in no other
way than a pious man is, _i.e._ by adoption; but according to His
Divine nature He is like the Father omnipresent, omnipotent, and
omniscient. In respect of His human nature it must still be said
by Him, “My Father is greater than I.” He dwells, however, bodily
in heaven, and is shut in by and confined to it. Only His Divine
nature can claim _Latria_ or _adoratio_, worship. Only _Dulia,
cultus_, reverence, such as is due to saints, images, and relics,
should be given to His body and blood upon the altar. Gerhoch’s
doctrine of the Supper, on the other hand, is summed up in
the proposition: He who receives the flesh of the Logos (_Caro
Verbi_) receives also therewith the Logos in His flesh (_Verbum
carnis_). Folmar and Eberhard denounced this as Eutychian heresy.
A conference at Bamberg in A.D. 1158, where Gerhoch stood alone
as representative of his views, ended by his opponents declaring
that he had been convicted of heresy. In A.D. 1162 a Council
at Friesach in Carinthia, under the presidency of Archbishop
Eberhard of Salzburg, reached the same conclusion.
§ 102.7. =Theologians of a Pre-eminently Biblical and
Ecclesiastico-Practical Tendency.=
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