Petrus Sutor

Petrus Sutor (French: Pierre Cousturier; c. 1480 – 18 June 1537) was a French theologian and Carthusian monk. Born in Chemere-le-Roy in the latter part of the 15th century, he earned a doctorate of theology at the Sorbonne in 1510 and then taught at the College of St. Barbe from about 1495 to about 1502.[1] He later became a monk, entering the Carthusian order. Between 1514 and 1531, he was the prior of four Carthusian houses: Val-Dieu, Vauvert, Preize, and Notre-Dame-du-Parc.[1][2] He was a follower of theologian Natalis Beda. In 1519, he was made governor of the Carthusians of Paris.

Sutor is known for being an outspoken critic of Erasmus,[3][4] Martin Luther,[5] and Protestantism more generally.[6] For example, in his 1525 work De Translatione Bibliae ("On the Translation of the Bible"), he vehemently opposed the translation of the Bible into vernacular languages while upholding the sufficiency of St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate.[7][8] He "considered it sufficient that the people could recite the Lord's Prayer, the Decalogue, the Creed and the Commandments of the Church."[9]

Works

• De Vita Carthusiana (Paris, 1522; Louvain, 1572; Cologne, 1609)
• De Triplici Annce Connubio (Paris, 1523)
• De Translatione Bibliae (Paris, 1525)
• Antapologia in quandam Erasmi Apologiam (Paris, 1526)

See also

• Erasmus
• Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples
• Translation of the Bible
• Humanism
• Scholasticism

References

1. Farge, James K. (2003). "Pierre Cousturier". In Bietenholz, Peter G.; Deutscher, Thomas Brian; Erasmus, Desiderius (eds.). Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1.
2. McClintock, John; Strong, James, eds. (1880). "Couturier (or Cousturier), Pierre (Lat. Petrus Sutor)". Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. New York: Harper and Brothers.
3. Rabbie, Edwin (2010). "Twenty-ninth Annual Erasmus Birthday Lecture: Long and Useless: The Polemic between Erasmus and Béda". Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook. 30 (1): 7–21. doi:10.1163/027628510X533846. ISSN 0276-2854.
4. Rummel, Erika (1996). "The Importance of Being Doctor: The Quarrel over Competency between Humanists and Theologians in the Renaissance". The Catholic Historical Review. 82 (2): 187–203. ISSN 0008-8080.
5. Martin, Dennis D. (1995). "Carthusians during the Reformation Era: "Cartusia nunquam deformata, reformari resistens"". The Catholic Historical Review. 81 (1): 41–66. ISSN 0008-8080.
6. Martin, Dennis D. (2005). "Carthusians". In Hillebrand, Hans J. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195064933.
7. François, Wim (April 2006). "Petrus Sutor et son plaidoyer contre les traductions de la Bible en langue populaire (1525)". Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. 82 (1): 139–163. doi:10.2143/ETL.82.1.2014923. ISSN 0013-9513.
8. Noblesse-Rocher, Annie (2018). "Reflections on Vernacular Translations of the Bible at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century". One in Christ. 52 (1): 110–123. ISSN 0030-252X.
9. Rummel, Erika (2008-06-25). A Companion to Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus. BRILL. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004145733.i-335.14. ISBN 978-90-04-14573-3.

Attribution

 This article incorporates public domain material from McClintock, John; Strong, James (1867–1887). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. Harper and Brothers.