In the beginning of the seventeenth century Arminius and a few other theologians of the Dutch Reformed Church, repelled by Calvin’s decretum horribile, ascribed the positive reprobation of the damned to original sin (lapsus).
The celebrated Decretum de libris recipiendis et non recipiendis, in a sense the oldest Index prohibitorum, is ascribed to him.
He published the Decretum Gratiani, a scientific digest of all canon laws, which soon superseded all other codifications and became the basis for many later commentaries.
In their definitions of the single Sacraments the Council could and did found on the Decretum pro Armenis of the Council of Florence (1439), incorporated in the Bull Exultate Deo of Pope Eugenius IV.
Decretum pro Armenis, used at the Council of Trent, 583.
The only condition is that they believe, and for this all the means are afforded in gratia resistibilis, while by a decretum absolutum et speciale only to elect persons is granted the gratia irresistibilis.
God by a decretum universale et hypotheticum destined all men to salvation through Jesus Christ, even the heathen, on the ground of a fides implicita.
For some account of the Decretum Gratiani and its history see CANON LAW.
The statement of which Luther here complains is found in the Decretum of Gratian, Dist.
As regards simony, the canons of the Decretumand the utterances of the doctors are quoted to show that it is heresy.
Episcopi by assuming that the Decretum of Gratian had not the authority of law, and was corrupt in many places.
The Decree of Gratian (Decretum Gratiani) in three parts, published c.
His compilation of the Canon Law is usually referred to as the Decretum Gratiani.
The Decretum of Gratian and the Corpus Juris Canonici.
His first publication, printed in 1533, was entitled 'Alexandri Alesii Epistola contra decretum quoddam episcoporum in Scotia, quod prohibet legere Novi Testamenti libros lingua vernacula.
The Decretum of Gratian, issued in 1150 from Bologna, then the most famous Law School in Europe, incorporated all these earlier forgeries and added new ones.
Still to us the whole case seems to lie in the generosity of your Page 442 tui liberalitate; quem quidem arbitramur cum officii sui et rei publicae causa decretum consulum comprobaturum tum libenter nostra causa esse facturum.
Gratian completed the Decretum about 1151, and probably survived some years, but I have not met with the date of his death.
In the Corpus Juris Canonici, or Decretum aureum, D.
It is in abbreviated Latin, but read in extenso it runs thus: "Sententiae Petri Lumbardi fratris Graciani qui decretum compilavit, et etiam Petri Comestoris, qui scholasticam historiam edidit et alia.
