Monday, December 21, 2020

Fulbert of Chartres and Transubstantiation

Q. Did Fulbert advocate the Roman dogma of transubstantiation?


Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres (c. 952/70-1028 A.D.):

Carolus de Villiers, a Parisian Theologian, published an edition of the works of Fulbert at Paris in 1608. Immediately after the words “Figura ergo est” he inserted in the text “dicet haereticus,” to destroy the force of the passage. Someone informed him that the whole passage was cited from St. Augustine, De doct. Christ., L. 3, C. 16, n. 24, col. 75, and that by the insertion of these words he had made that eminent Saint a heretic. In his next edition, accordingly, he placed these words among the errata and confessed that they were not to be found in the MSS. Such pious frauds and corruptions of texts are of common occurrence in the Church of Rome, as the easiest way to destroy the force of a passage. (J. H. Treat, The Catholic Faith; Or, Doctrines of the Church of Rome Contrary to Scripture and the Teaching of the Primitive Church, [1888], p. 245). Here


Unless ye shall eat, He said, the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye shall have no life in you. He seems to enjoin a crime or wicked act. It is a figure, therefore (a heretic will say[see note below]), commanding us to partake of the Lord's Passion only, etc. (J. P. Minge, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, [1880], Patrologiæ Latinæ, Tomus CXLI, S. Fulberti Carnotensis Episcopi., Sermones Ad Populum, Sermo VIII (Fragmentum), Col. 334). Here Trans. (J. H. Treat, The Catholic Faith; Or, Doctrines of the Church of Rome Contrary to Scripture and the Teaching of the Primitive Church, [1888], pp. 245-246). Here


NOTE. — The interpretation is mystical, and observe that these two words, 'a heretic will say,' are not found in the MS. of Dionysius Petavius. (J. P. Minge, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, [1880], Patrologiæ Latinæ, Tomus CXLI, S. Fulberti Carnotensis Episcopi., Sermones Ad Populum, Sermo VIII (Fragmentum), [footnote (54)], Col. 334). Here Trans. (J. H. Treat, The Catholic Faith; Or, Doctrines of the Church of Rome Contrary to Scripture and the Teaching of the Primitive Church, [1888], p. 246). Here



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