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Source: Sämtliche schriften und briefe series IV volume 7 Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed) p 830 Date: 1685 (?) Translated from the Latin View this translation in PDF format (6k) Back to home page Search texts by keyword(s): (For search strings, just type the words; don't use quotation marks) |
LEIBNIZ: ON THE COMMANDMENT OF CHARITY, SCHISM, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH[A IV 7, p830] The commandment of charity1 is the highest. Schism is very much opposed to charity. The safest dogma is that the Catholic Church was founded by God, and must be heard by everyone, will never perish, can never grow obsolete, [and] must never be abandoned. This principle was also held as most certain in the ancient Church, and is held even now by Eastern Churches; but the principles of Protestants are unknown to established Churches in other regions of the world.2 NOTES: 1. See Matthew 22.36-40 and Mark 12.28-31. 2. Cf. A IV 3, 292. © Lloyd Strickland 2021 |