Word: cavallera
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jerome was no philosopher. As Jesuit Father Ferdinand Cavallera writes, "There is no great mind less speculative than his." Unlike his contemporary, St. Augustine, he did not help produce the theology he defended. He was, however, a literary man of great learning, as particular about his Ciceronian clauses as he was about the doctrine of the Trinity. It was significant that the humanists of the Italian Renaissance, similar in their tastes, admired Jerome, while looking down on other church fathers as uncultured and dull...
| 1 |