damnata

The American people are a massa damnata, a “lump of sin,” which must be exorcised regularly.

Archive 2010-01-01 2010

The American people are a massa damnata, a “lump of sin,” which must be exorcised regularly.

Our national incoherence 2010

And so, for centuries thereafter, when the then-known world had already had the Gospel preached to it in some-or-other fashion, Catholics generally believed that all those who did not convert and accept baptism were culpably rejecting the Gospel, thus belonging to the massa damnata of humanity.

Who can be saved: reconceiving the question Mike L 2008

What virtue yet sleeps in this terra damnata and aged cinders, were petty magic to experiment.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

The objection to that, naturally enough, is that it makes God seem like an ogre, as indeed he seems to be in Augustine's theory of massa damnata.

Development and Negation VII: Original Sin as Inherited "Guilt" Mike L 2007

The objection to that, naturally enough, is that it makes God seem like an ogre, as indeed he seems to be in Augustine's theory of massa damnata.

Archive 2007-04-01 Mike L 2007

Limbo was itself an amelioration of St. Augustine's doleful theory of massa damnata; the only ostensible Catholics who still insist on that theory are known as Jansenists.

The Pontificator on limbo: Part V Mike L 2006

While Augustine was obviously the single most important doctor of the Church in the development of that doctrine, the Church has not defined as dogma all his views thereon and indeed has come to reject his theory of massa damnata—the theory that all who die in original sin not only go to hell but deservedly stay there forever.

Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006

Limbo was itself an amelioration of St. Augustine's doleful theory of massa damnata; the only ostensible Catholics who still insist on that theory are known as Jansenists.

Archive 2006-10-01 Mike L 2006

While Augustine was obviously the single most important doctor of the Church in the development of that doctrine, the Church has not defined as dogma all his views thereon and indeed has come to reject his theory of massa damnata—the theory that all who die in original sin not only go to hell but deservedly stay there forever.

Distinguishing dogma from theology Mike L 2006