Corpus Catholicorum Explained

The Corpus Catholicorum (Corp. Cath., CCath., or CC) is a collection of sixteenth-century writings by the leading proponents and defenders of the Roman Catholic Church against the teachings of the Protestant reformers.

The full title of the series is: Corpus Catholicorum: Werke katholischer Schriftsteller im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung, i.e., Body of Catholic [writings]: Works of Catholic authors in the Time of the Splitting of the Faith.

The series, intended as a counterpart to the Corpus Reformatorum, was conceived in 1915 by Professor Joseph Greving (1868–1919) of the University of Bonn, and was announced that same year in the Theologische Revue as a "Plan für ein Corpus Catholicorum" or "Plan for a Corpus Catholicorum."^[1]

List of volumes in the Corpus Catholicorum

Each volume is listed with its editor, followed by its contents. Volumes 1–13 are freely accessible. Unless otherwise stated, all volumes were published at Münster in Westfalen by Verlag der Aschendorffschen Verlagsbuchhandlung.

• Vol. 1. Joseph Greving, S.J., ed. (1919). HathiTrust. Google Books.
  • Johann Eck. Defensio contra amarulentas D. Andreae Bodenstein Carolstatini invectiones (1518).
• Vol. 2. Johannes Metzler, S.J. ed. (1921). HathiTrust.
  • Johann Eck, Epistola de Ratione Studiorum Suorum (1538).
  • Erasmus Wolph, De Orbitu Ioan. Eckii Adversus Calumniam Viti Theodorici (1543).
• Vol. 3. Joseph Schweizer, ed. (1920). Internet Archive. Google Books. HathiTrust.
  • Johann Cochlaeus. Adversus cucullatum minotaurum wittenbergensem: De sacramentorum gratia iterum, (1523).
• Vol. 4. Franz Xaver Thurnhofer, ed. (1921). HathiTrust.
  • Jerome Emser (Hieronymus Emser), De disputatione Lipsicensi, quantum ad Boemos obiter deflexa est (1519).
  • A Venatione Luteriana Aegocerotis Assertio (1519).
• Vol. 5. Ulrich Schmidt, O.F.M., ed. (1922). HathiTrust. HathiTrust (vols. 5–7).
  • Kaspar Schatzgeyer, O.F.M., Scrutinium Divinae Scripturae pro conciliatione dissidentium dogmatum (1522).
• Vol. 6. Therese Virnich, ed. (1923). HathiTrust. HathiTrust (vols. 5–7).
  • Johann Eck, Disputatio Viennae Pannoniae habita (1517).
• Vol. 7. Friedrich Hünermann, ed. (1923). Google Books. HathiTrust (vols. 5–7).
  • Card. Gasparo Contarini, Gegenreformatorische schriften (ca. 1530–1542).
• Vol. 8. Leonhard Keil (1924). HathiTrust. Google Books (vols. 8 & 9).
  • Bartholomaeus Latomus, Zwei streitschriften gegen Martin Bucer (1543–1543).
• Vol. 9. Hermann Klein Schmeink, ed. (1925). HathiTrust. Google Books (only vol. 9). Google Books (vols. 8 & 9).
  • St. John Fisher, Sacri sacerdotii defensio contra Lutherum (1525).
• Vol. 10. Friedrich Lauchert, ed. (1925). Google Books.
  • Card. Thomas de Vio Cajetan, O.P., De divina institutione pontificatus Romani pontificis (1521).
• Vol. 11. (1926). HathiTrust. HathiTrust (vols. 11 & 12). Google Books.
  • Augustin von Alfeld, O.F.M., Wyder den Wittenbergischen abgot Martin Luther (1524), ed. by Käthe Büschgens.
  • Idem, Erklärung des Salve Regina (1527), ed. by Fr. Leonhard Lemmens, O.F.M.
• Vol. 12. Fr. Patricius Schlager, O.F.M. (1927). HathiTrust (vols. 11 & 12).
  • Nicolaus Herborn, O.F.M., Locorum communium adversus huius temporis haereses enchiridion (1529).
• Vol. 13. Bernhard Walde, ed. (1928). HathiTrust.
  • Johann Eck, Explanatio Psalmi vigesimi (1538).
• Vol. 34. Pierre Fraenkel, ed. (1979). .
  • Johann Eck, Enchiridion locorum communium adversus Lutherum et alios hostes ecclesiae; mit den Zusätzen von Tilmann Smeling [''Enchiridion'' (i.e., handbook or manual) ''of Commonplaces against Luther and other Enemies of the Church''; with additions by Tilmann Smeling].^[2]
• Vol. 43. Pierre Fraenkel, ed. (1992), .
  • Henry VIII, Assertio septem sacramentorum adversus Martinum Lutherum.
• Vols. 45–48. Sr. Ursula Dirmeier, C.J., ed. (2007).
  • Mary Ward und ihre Gründung: Die Quellentexte bis 1645 (Mary Ward and Her Foundation: The Source Texts to 1645), 4 vols.
    • Vol. 45. .
    • Vol. 46. .
    • Vol. 47. .
    • Vol. 48. .

Notes

1. The Fortnightly Review, vol. XXVI, no. 21, ed. by Arthur Preuss (St. Louis, Missouri, 1 November 1919), p. 332. Google Books.
2. This work was translated into English for the following edition: John Eck, Enchiridion of Commonplaces Against Luther and Other Enemies of the Church, transl. by Ford Lewis Battles (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1979). Internet Archive.

Further reading

• Joseph Greving, Plan für ein Corpus Catholicorum (Sonderabdruck aus der Theologischen Revue, Jahrgang. 14, i.e., printed separately from the Theological Review, vol. 14, no. 17/18) (Münster in Westphalen: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, [1916]). Google Books.
• ———, Johann Eck als junger Gelehrter. Eine literar- und dogmengeschichtliche Untersuchung über seinen Chrysopassus praedestinationis aus dem Jahre 1514, (Münster in Westphalen: Aschendorff, [1906]). Google Books.