See also:VINCENT OF LERINS, ST, or VINCENTIS LERINENSIS (d. c. A.D. 450)
, an ecclesiastical writer of the Western See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of whose See also:personal See also:history hardly anything is known, except that he was a native of See also:Gaul, possibly See also:brother of St Loup, See also:bishop of See also:Troyes, that he became a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk and See also:priest at Lerinum, and that he died in or about 450
.
Lerinum (Lerins, off See also:Cannes) had been made by Honoratus, afterwards bishop of See also:Arles, the seat of a monastic community which produced a number of eminent churchmen, among them Hilary of Arles
.
The school did not produce an extensive literature, but it played an important See also:part in resisting an exaggerated Augustinianism by reasserting the freedom of the will and the continued existence of the divine See also:image in human nature after the fall
.
As regards See also:Vincent he himself tells us that only after See also:long and sad experience of worldly turmoil did he betake himself to the haven of a religious See also:life
.
In 434, three years after the See also:council of See also:Ephesus, he wrote the Commonitorium adversus profanas omnium haereticorum novitates, in which he ultimately aims at See also:Augustine's See also:doctrine of See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and See also:predestination
.
In it he discusses the " notes " which distinguish See also:Catholic truth from See also:heresy, and (cap
.
2) See also:lays down and applies the famous threefold test of orthodoxy—quod ubique, quod See also:semper, quod ab See also:omnibus creditum est
.
It is very striking that in his See also:appeal to tradition Vincent assigns no part to the bishops as such—apart from the council; he appeals to the See also:ancient " teachers," not to any apostolic See also:succession
.
His " semi-Pelagian " opposition to Augustine is dealt with by Prosper of Aquitania in his See also:Pro Augustini doctrina responsiones ad capitula objectionum Vincentiarnarium
.
It explains why the Commonitorium has reached us only in a mutilated See also:form
.
The Commonitorium has been edited by See also:Baluze (See also:Paris, 1663, 16699 and 1684) and by Klupfel (See also:Vienna, 1809)
.
It also occurs in vol
.
1. of See also:Migne's See also:Patrol
.
See also:Ser
.
See also:Lat
.
(1846)
.
A full See also:summary is given in A
.
See also:Harnack's History of See also:Dogma, hi
.
23o if
.
See also F
.
H
.
See also:Stanton, See also:Place of Authority in See also:Religion, pp
.
167 ff.; A
.
See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper-Marsdin, The School of Lerins (See also:Rochester, 1905)
.
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