Philip Melanchthon against Thomas Aquinas: Do the sacraments benefits others besides the recipients? (March 30, 2012)

In Melanchthon's Loci, he says that the belief that the Mass benefits others besides the recipient originated in Thomas' Summa, here's the quotation from Loci:  "All Masses are godless, therefore, except those by which consciences are encouraged for the strengthening of faith. A sacrifice is what we offer to God, but we do […]

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