Translations and Original Poetry by Mark Spinnenweber
Jansenism: An International Anthology, 2024
In Blanchard and Yoder, eds. Jansenism: An International Anthology (Washington, DC: Catholic Univ... more In Blanchard and Yoder, eds. Jansenism: An International Anthology (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2024), 334-339.
English translation from the Arabic text of Section Six of The Melkite Synod of Qarqafé 1808, dealing with indulgences. "The excerpted text below comes from chapter six of the synodal acts of Qarqafé. The synod’s views on indulgences draw from a common anti-Roman and anti-scholastic perspective that many Eastern Catholics shared with Jansenists, as well as a privileging of patristic texts and patterns of thought (ressourcement avant la lettre). Indulgences were not rejected, but the late medieval understanding of the 'treasury of merit' was undercut in favor of an earlier Catholic understanding of indulgences as special remissions of canonical penances. Some other acts of this Melkite assembly, such as the Decrees on Sacraments and on Prayer, are directly reliant on the Synod of Pistoia. In the Brief Melchitarum catholicorum synodus (1835), Pope Gregory XVI specifically condemned the Synod of Qarqafé as a Jansenist and Pistoian metastasis."
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Translations and Original Poetry by Mark Spinnenweber
English translation from the Arabic text of Section Six of The Melkite Synod of Qarqafé 1808, dealing with indulgences. "The excerpted text below comes from chapter six of the synodal acts of Qarqafé. The synod’s views on indulgences draw from a common anti-Roman and anti-scholastic perspective that many Eastern Catholics shared with Jansenists, as well as a privileging of patristic texts and patterns of thought (ressourcement avant la lettre). Indulgences were not rejected, but the late medieval understanding of the 'treasury of merit' was undercut in favor of an earlier Catholic understanding of indulgences as special remissions of canonical penances. Some other acts of this Melkite assembly, such as the Decrees on Sacraments and on Prayer, are directly reliant on the Synod of Pistoia. In the Brief Melchitarum catholicorum synodus (1835), Pope Gregory XVI specifically condemned the Synod of Qarqafé as a Jansenist and Pistoian metastasis."
English translation from the Arabic text of Section Six of The Melkite Synod of Qarqafé 1808, dealing with indulgences. "The excerpted text below comes from chapter six of the synodal acts of Qarqafé. The synod’s views on indulgences draw from a common anti-Roman and anti-scholastic perspective that many Eastern Catholics shared with Jansenists, as well as a privileging of patristic texts and patterns of thought (ressourcement avant la lettre). Indulgences were not rejected, but the late medieval understanding of the 'treasury of merit' was undercut in favor of an earlier Catholic understanding of indulgences as special remissions of canonical penances. Some other acts of this Melkite assembly, such as the Decrees on Sacraments and on Prayer, are directly reliant on the Synod of Pistoia. In the Brief Melchitarum catholicorum synodus (1835), Pope Gregory XVI specifically condemned the Synod of Qarqafé as a Jansenist and Pistoian metastasis."