Introduction. The historiographical category of "Golden age of Catholic Biblical scholarship" ; The "Golden age" : roots and growth ; Biblical studies in Louvain and its alumni : humanism, confessional strife and war
Louvain and the "Authentic" text of the Vulgate. Nicholas Tacitus Zegers and his text-criticism of the New Testament ; Textual criticism of the Vulgate before and after the Sixto-Clementine (1592) ; Lucas' first period: 1574-1592 ; Lucas' second period: 1592-1603 ; Lucas' third period 1603-1618 ; The case of Gen 3:15 in Henten, Lucas and Sasbout ; Conclusion : The Nachleben of Henten, Zegers, and Lucas
The exegesis of the Vulgate in Louvain and its alumni. Introduction : predestination, grace, and human free will in Christianity ; Franciscans and the doctrine of double justice ; Double justice and double justification amongst Catholic theologians ; Albert Pighius and double justice ; Gropper's view: both double justice and double justification ; The answer of the Louvain Faculty of Theology: Ruard Tapper and the 32 Articles ; Seripando: the promoter of the double justice doctrine at the Council ; Zegers' Scholion and double justice between Driedo, Gropper and Augustine ; Sasbout: the pupil follows the master ; Iustitia imputata as remissio peccatorum and iustitia inhaerens as renovatio animi? ; Jansenius: Biblical humanism and Augustinian-minded exegesis ; Jansenius: from Hulst to Ghent ; Jansenius' theology of grace in the commentary to his Concordia ; John Hessels the "anti-Pelagian" ; Stapleton's "Antidote" to John Calvin: Luis de Molina's "middle knowledge" ; Short biography ; A Revealing title ; Matt 11:21: Chorazin and Bethsaida ; Matt 11:21: God's omniscience and human free will ; Lucas' commentaries and the controversy on predestination, grace and free will ; The aim ; The methodology ; Predestination, grace and human free will ; Eternal election, temporal vocation and human free will ; Eternal predestination, God's adjuvant grace and good works: three causes of human salvation ; The third cause: bona opera as fulfilment of God's will ; The problem of sin: God's foreknowledge and human free will ; Conclusion: Louvain between anti-Pelagianism and Molinism
Preaching the Bible in the Habsburg Spanish Netherlands . Sasbout: Salvari possumus si volumus ; The edition of Jansenius' Sermons by George Braun ; Stapleton and the education of the preachers ; Preaching against the Queen on the 19th Sunday after Pentecost ; The Mass on Septuagesima Sunday: again against the Queen? ; Stapleton's Sermon on the Protomartyr and Luis de Molina ; Lucas' sermons to Bruges' citizens ; Conclusion.