Apostolici Regiminis

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Apostolici regiminis is a papal bull published by Leo X on December 19, 1513 during the eighth session of the V Lateran Council . In it the doctrine of the immortality of the human soul is raised to the binding Catholic truth of faith.

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In the bull the doctrine is presented that every human being has a soul endowed with reason, which is immortal; the view that this soul is "one and only in all people" is rejected. With reference to the teaching of Pope Clement V at the Council of Vienne , it is stated that the human soul is “truly by itself and essentially the form of the human body” ( per se et essentialiter humani corporis forma ). Opposing views are not even philosophically tenable, i. H. the immortality of the soul could not only be recognized with certainty through Christian revelation, but through human reason.

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Apostolici regiminis reacts to an intense medieval controversy regarding the doctrine of the soul, because Averroistic- oriented Aristotelians denied the continued existence of the individual soul after death by advocating the sole immortality of the spirit in the general sense, for which Siger was condemned by Brabant and which was later condemned by the Humanist Pietro Pomponazzi represented in his main work De immortalitate animae .

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  • Annalisa Cappiello: Apostolici regiminis and vera philosophia. From Savonarola to Javelli , in: Freiburg Journal for Philosophy and Theology 64 (2017), pages 45–57.
  • Giancarlo Colacicco: Truth of faith in transcendental perspective. Francisco Suárez and the Apostolici regiminis (1513) , in: Freiburg Journal for Philosophy and Theology 64 (2017), pp. 97–110.
  • Eric A. Constant: A reinterpretation of the Fifth Lateran Council decree "Apostolici regiminis" (1513) , in: The Sixteenth Century Journal 33 (2002), pp. 353-379. doi : 10.2307 / 4143912 , JSTOR 4143912
  • M. Daniel Price: The origins of Lateran V's "Apostolici regiminis" , in: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 17 (1985), pages 464-472.
  • Olivier de La Brosse et al: Lateran V and Trient (1st part) , Mainz 1978, pages 95-100.