Counterparts of the Five Solas?

[Studens]

I have a question about the Five Solas and how they relate to Catholicism.

I’m sure everyone knows about the early Protestant Five Solas: sola gratia, sola fide, sola scriptura, solo Christo, soli Deo gloria. In my old university class on the history of Christianity, I remember hearing something about how these were meant to counter five tenets of the Catholic Church, and I wondered if anyone knew anything about that.

I have heard, for example, that scriptura et traditio is the Catholic counterpart to the Protestant sola scriptura, and that Christo et ecclesia is the counterpart to solo Christo.

I would be very interested in learning what the Catholic counterparts to the Five Solas would be (if any such things exist). I haven’t found any luck with Google searches, or searches here on this forum.

Also please note that I really am not interested in a debate about the relative value of things like scriptura et traditio or sola scriptura. I have heard plenty of arguments on both sides of that debate and other such debates, and no argument has swayed me — or any of the participants in the debate, for that matter. I just want to understand the beliefs of various Christian traditions — there’s no need to argue over who is right. As our Master said, “By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.”

 

[Brain]

Lemme guess:

Sola Scriptura = Magisterium and scripture
Sola Gratia = Sola Gratia, yeah if you think about it we both think this. I guess a difference is sacramental theology, that Jesus left us way to actaully effect graces.
Sola Fide = Faith which will naturally lead to works if one’s faith is true
Sola Christus = Sola Christus, another misunderstanding, this one stems from a misunderstanding of the communion of the saints
Sola Gloria Dei = I guess its yet another misunderstanding, we catholics have the Magnificat idea, that in honoring those who God has blessed, we glorify him.

 

[Studens]

Thanks for your response — very prompt!

I think maybe I should be a little clearer. I had heard, and perhaps incorrectly, that there were five common or prominent Latin phrases, all of them pairs, in the writings of the Church and its agents against which the early Protestants meant to protest with the formulation of their Five Solas. I’m looking for these Latin phrases, if they exist.

Now, it is possible that the supposed phrases were not pre-Reformation phrases at all but were actually Counterreformation phrases meant to rebut the Five Solas. Either way, I would want to know what they are.

I’ve found a Chinese site here:
ccccn.org/Article/Teo/Dogma/200509/20050925052225.html
that gives a list of four such phrases (if you position your scroll bar’s button about halfway down the bar, then the paragraph numbered 3 that contains these phrases will be right about where your button is). But I don’t know where they got those four phrases or anything about them other than that they are on that site. I’d like to find something that’s authentically Catholic. And it’d be a big plus if I could find sources for the phrases somewhere — not necessarily ultimate sources, just some sort of well-respected source. If Ignatius Loyola happened to be quoting Thomas Aquinas but didn’t say that he was doing so, then a source from Ignatius Loyola would be sufficiently authentic and well-respected for my purposes — I don’t need to know when the phrases originated.

 

[Studens]

I’m still kind of hoping for an answer on this. Can anyone offer me help?