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Paul,
I have no doubt Augustine thought he had precedent, but he may be the
author of our term "original sin".
The term Immaculate Conception is very late medieval. Usually the
arguments focused either on the celebration of a feast of Mary's
Conception (which Bernard opposed in a letter to the canons of Lyons) or
the concept itself. But the term is not in the quodlibeta and polemics I
have read while working on the resistance of most Dominicans to either
feast or concept.. Immaculate seems to appear first in the Mass texts
for the feat prepared by Leonardo Nogarola for Pope Sixtus IV in 1477.
See my article:
“The Immaculate Conception and Ecclesiastical Politics from the Council
of Basel to the Council of Trent: The Dominicans and Their Foes,”
/Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/ 96 (2005): 145-170.
Tom Izbicki
Paul Chandler wrote:
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> Also, Tom, Augustine was at pains to claim -- whether justifiably or
> not is another matter -- that his notion of peccatum originale was
> based on earlier traditions in East and West. See especially Contra
> Iulianum lib. 1, where he quotes Irenaeus, Cyprian, Reticius of Autun,
> Olympius, Hilary, Ambrose, Innocent I, Gregory Nazianzen, the Synod of
> Diospolis, John Chrysostom (at length), Basil, and Jerome.
>
> Perhaps it's obvious, or perhaps worth saying anyway, that the fact
> that the Immaculate Conception is of 19th-century definition does not
> mean it was not of medieval concern. It's well known that Bernard of
> Clairvaux opposed Eadmer's idea as an unwelcome innovation, and that
> nearly all the leading theologians of the late 12th and 13th centuries
> opposed it (Peter Lombard, Alexander of Hales, Bonaventure, Albert the
> Great, Thomas Aquinas, &c.). The Franciscans William of Ware and Duns
> Scotus persuaded their followers of the opposite position. In mid-15th
> century, Paris and other universities began to require an oath to
> defend the doctrine, and even Thomist Dominican opposition eventually
> weakened. -- Paul Chandler
>
>
> 2008/7/28 Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]
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> Being a librarian, I ran "peccatum originale" through the
> Patrologia latina. The term is in Augustine's works. Mostly in
> minor works, but I add this text:
>
> Augustinus Hipponensis:
>
> S. AURELII AUGUSTINI HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI ENCHIRIDION AD
> LAURENTIUM SIVE DE FIDE, SPE ET CHARITATE LIBER UNUS . (C) /214Kb/
> <http://pld.chadwyck.com/all/fulltext?ACTION=byid&warn=N&id=Z400053061&div=4&FILE=../session/1217252741_6877&DBOFFSET=33836926&ENTRIES=86
> <http://pld.chadwyck.com/all/fulltext?ACTION=byid&warn=N&id=Z400053061&div=4&FILE=../session/1217252741_6877&DBOFFSET=33836926&ENTRIES=86>>
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> *Found 1 hit:*
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> CAPUT XLVIII. /1Kb/
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> <http://pld.chadwyck.com/all/fulltext?ALL=Y&action=byid&warn=N&id=Z500053109&div=5&file=../session/1217252741_6877&SOMQUERY=1&DBOFFSET=33836926&ENTRIES=86&CURDB=pld>>
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>
> 14. [H]Peccatum originale non aboletur nisi per Christum. Illud
> tamen unum peccatum,...
>
> I will leave the origfins of the concept to the theologians, but
> later Western texts would echo this terminology.
>
> Tom Izbicki
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