George Bull - Opera Omnia - 1703

BULL, George (Georgii Bulli)

George Bull, S. Theologiae Professor and Anglican priest, Opera Omnia, in which the two principal articles of the Catholic faith, concerning the Holy Trinity and Justification, are Orthodoxly, clearly, and solidly explained, illustrated, and confirmed...
London (Londini), Printed by Samuel Bridge, near the Royal Exchange, for Richard Smith, 1703.

Beautiful and authentic contemporary smooth parchment binding. The spine is endowed with a neat, ink-printed title.

Including the original portrait of George Bull as frontispiece.

First corrected and collective edition (Opera Omnia) of the Latin theological-polemical works of the distinguished English Anglican theologian and bishop George Bull (1634–1710).
This monumental masterwork brings together his major treatises on the foundations of the Christian faith, including his famous defense of the Holy Trinity and the Doctrine of Justification (De S. Trinitate & Justificatione).

Also contains the then unpublished tract against the views of the Socinian theologian Daniel Zwicker (Contra Danielem Zuickerum), in which Bull vigorously defends the apostolic tradition concerning the deity of Jesus Christ. This edition is issued with extensive annotations and a historical preface by the well-known Prussian-English scholar Johann Ernst Grabe (Joannis Ernesti Grabe).

The work consists of 6 large theological main works/tracts, each subdivided into chapters.

1. Defensio Fidei Nicaenae (Bull's famous defense of the Nicene Creed). 296 pp (6 pp index)
2. Judicium Ecclesiae Catholicae. 83 pp
3. Primitiva et Apostolica Traditio (Against Daniel Zwicker). 44 pp
4. Harmonia Apostolica. 120 pp (4 pp)
5. Examen Censurae. 108 pp
6. Apologia pro Harmonia. 84 pp (12 pp index)

12 pages of preface exclusive of title page and frontispiece

Condition – Very good binding still handsome – complete and secure in the binding.