It has the obvious advantage of not regarding deification as an opus operatum, but as a process, as a hope rather than a fact.
The new features are the great prominence given to immanence--the mystical union as an opus operatum, and the individualistic conception of the relation of Christ to the soul.
The teachers of the church do still indeed maintain the necessity of a disposition corresponding to the outward works, but by an over-estimation of these they already prepare the way for the doctrine of merit and the opus operatum, i.
So too is it with the doctrine of the sacraments, and hence the idea of an opus operatum and of transubstantiation.
The Mass embodies a “pestilential mistake of the self-righteousness of the opus operatum.
Only later did he again come nearer to the Catholic doctrine of the “opus operatum.
This was, however much he might deny it, to hark back to the ‘opus operatum’ and to dissolve the link between faith and the working of grace.
This passage clearly requires the sacrifices of the righteous, and hence does not favor the opinion concerning the opus operatum.
For no sane man can approve that pharisaic and heathen opinion concerning the opus operatum.
In short, such expressions as opus operatum and opus operantis are nothing but useless words of men, more of a hindrance than a help.
Whoever sets them aside and meditates or teaches concerning the mass, will teach monstrous and wicked doctrines, as they have done who made of the sacrament an opus operatum[56] and a sacrifice.
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