Jonas Schlichting: On the Holy Trinity – Audiobook

Jonas Schlichting – On the Holy Trinity

A Disputation against Balthasar Meisner on the Trinity, the Precepts of the Old and New Testaments, and the Lord’s Supper and Baptism (Raków 1637)

Audiobook · unabridged · 34 hours 8 minutes · 14 chapters · English

Translated from the Latin by Marcin Poholski

What must a person believe in order to be a Christian?

The Wittenberg theologian Balthasar Meisner had denied that the Socinians were Christians at all: they rejected fundamental articles of faith without whose knowledge and confession no one could be saved – on God and his Trinity, on the Son of God, on the Holy Spirit, on the precepts, on the Lord’s Supper and on baptism. Jonas Schlichting (1592–1661), one of the leading theologians of the Polish Brethren, answers him section by section. He quotes Meisner word for word and sets his refutation against every paragraph, so that the book becomes a debate in which both voices are heard – sharp, often ironic, never evasive.

The Disputatio of 1637 is the most extensive polemical work of the Polish Brethren against Lutheran orthodoxy and one of the last printed at Raków before the town, its school and its press were forcibly dissolved a year later. Schlichting’s answer is remarkably restrained: he does not demand that his opponents adopt his doctrine, only that they stop making a condition of salvation what Scripture does not make one.

Contents include: a preface to all pastors of the Evangelical churches built on Tertullian’s “rule of faith” · what a fundamental article actually is · six arguments on the Trinity – reason, Scripture, the Apostles’ Creed, the Papists · the Son of God: eternal generation, the prologue of John, “only-begotten”, the two natures · the Holy Spirit as the power of God · the precepts of Christ · the Lord’s Supper as a memorial · baptism and the question of infant baptism.

This audiobook contains the complete English translation – the first in any modern language besides the German edition of this series – with preface and afterword; Bible references are spoken out, the footnotes and marginal notes of the print edition are omitted.

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