Thursday, July 25, 2024

Robert Sungenis on Catholic Theologians and Saints Who Called into Question the Deutero-Canonical Books's Authority

  

. . . John Damascene (676-754 to 787) who, in his An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, had assigned 22 books to the Hebrew Old Testament as he found them in the work of Epiphanius (314-403) De pondeibus et mensuris, a work completed before the Councils which formulated the Christian canon (Catholic Encyclopedia, eds., Charles G. Herbermann, et al. (New York: Robert Appleton Co. 1910), Vol. VIII, p. 461); and Hugh of St. Victor (b. 1096) in De Sacramentis Christianoe Fidei (c. 1134) which questions the canonicity of Tobit, Judith, Maccabees, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus; and Nicholas of Lyra (d. 1270-1340) who deferred to the Hebrew canon in his commentaries. Thomas Aquinas was perplexed as to the exact standing of the Deutero-canonicals, as was Cardinal Cajetan during the Protestant Reformation. Other medieval theologians did not accept their canonicity without at least some doubts. (Robert A. Sungenis, “Point/Counterpoint: Protestant Objections and Catholic Answers,” in Not By Scripture Alone: A Catholic Critique of the Protestant Doctrine of Sola Scriptura, ed. Robert A. Sungenis [2d ed.; State Line, Pa.: Catholic Apologetics International Publishing, Inc., 2013], 231-32 n. 61)

 

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