I would like to discuss this now.
I have never heard anyone other than a Feeneyite assert Aquinas erred here.
But as I understand the Feeneyite mind:
1) Lefebvre was a modernist for allegedly teaching implicit faith;
2) St. Thomas likewise was a modernist teaching implicit faith;
3) All the post-Tridentine theologians are modernists for preaching implicit faith;
4) St. Alphonsus was a mushhead, and not knowing what Trent taught, maintained an heretical position condemned by Trent;
5) The popes who declared anyone might follow the teachings of St. Alphonsus were modernists for leading people into Alphonsus's errors;
6) All these are wrong, and the Feeneyites are right.
Does that more or less sum it up?
Will you say that St. Alphonsus is a feeneyite heretic?
From: (
An Exposition and Defence of All the Points of Faith Discussed and Defined by the Sacred Council of Trent, Along With the Refutation of the Errors of the Pretended Reformers, Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Dublin, 1846.)
"The heretics say that no sacrament is necessary, inasmuch as they hold that man is justified by faith alone, and that the sacraments only serve to excite and nourish this faith, which (as they say) can be equally excited and nourished by preaching. But this is certainly false, and is condemned in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth canons: for as we know from the Scriptures, some of the sacraments are necessary (
necessitate Medii) as a means without which salvation is impossible. Thus Baptism is necessary for all, Penance for them who have fallen into sin after Baptism, and the Eucharist is necessary for all at least in desire (
in voto)."
Topic: Implicit BOD (Read 18856 times)