RESERVATION, MENTAL: A secret mental restriction or repression in thought, an offense against the duty of truthfulness by which a part of the truth is concealed, and so an intentional deceit prepared. It may refer either to the past or the future; to the statement of what is alleged to have happened or to be at hand, or to an assurance of something to be rendered or kept. The assertory as well as the promissory oath can thus give occasion to its commission. It may also occur in daily social intercourse. Mental reservation plays a considerable r8le in the lax moral system of the Jesuits. Many of their authors as well as some Roman Catholic moralists outside supported the use of this reservation. Among the former J. Caramuel was the most thorough going in his Haplotes de restrictionibus mentalibus (Leyden, 1672). Antoninus Diana (d.1663) taught that " if any one voluntarily offers to take an oath, by necessity or for some utility, he may use double meanings, for he has a just ground for using them " (Resolutiones mortdta, II., tract 15, 25 26, III., tract 5, 100 and 6, 30). So if any one requests a loan from another which the other can not give, he may say that he does not have it, reserving the mental addition, in order to loan it to him. If.one is asked about a crime of which he is the only witness, he can say that he does not know it, adding mentally, as an openly known crime. On proper grounds, an ambiguous oath does not involve perjury, if, without change of form, the ambiguous sense may be produced; one does not need to confess to a committed offense before a court, if thereby an injury to self is invited; one can deny having committed it, with the reservation in mind, " in prison." Knowingly to lead any one to take a false oath is no sin because the person
493 RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA vanervaMon Rho takes the oath is knowingly.doing no evil; and to swear falsely from habit is a pardonable sin. For numerous parallel instances of the older and later moralists cf. Count P. von Hoensbroech, Das Paprttum, vol. ii., Die ultramontane Moral, pp. 223 sqq. (Leipsic, 1902), among which occur the scandalous example from J. P. Gury's Cases conscienda: (Lyons, 1864) of Anna the adulteress, and the author's own citation from the Roman Analeda ecclesiastics of June, 1901; both of which cases involve an equivocating denial of an offense after absolution.
Protests against the system of mental reservation are found not only among Protestants of all classes, but the more serious Roman Catholic theology either defined it more or less closely or else condemned it positively; as, for example, the author on moral theology, G. V. Pautuzzi (d. 1679), Ethiaa Christians. (Venice, 1770). The methods of modern Jesuit moralists are said to be wholly subservient to the apology and justification of moral restrictions. A. Lehmkuhl (KL, x. 1082 89) represents, as the only correct view, that which asserts that cases may arise in which a restrictio late mentalis, or external reservation or ambiguous statement, may be employed. In such cases the one speaking does not deceive so much as the one arriving at an erroneous judgment deceives himself. In such cases where the reservation is permissible, if the matter is of sufficient importance, the statement may be reenforced by oath without committing perjury. See JEsurrs, II., § 6.
(0. Z6Cxz.ERt.)
BIBLIOOHAPHY: Apologetic treatment is found in: J. P. Gury. Cases conscientia, 8th ed., pp. 183 184, Paris, 1881; A. Lehmkuhl, Theolopia moralis, i. 251 252, 453, Freiburg, 1890; F. KSssing, Die Wahrheitsliebe, pp. 106 sqq., Faderborn, 1893; V. Catrein, Moralphilosophie, ii. 75 sqq., 86 sqq., Freiburg, 1899; J. Adloff, RSmisch katholische and esanpelische SitUichkeltskontroverse, Strasburg, 1900. Critical discussions are: H. Reuchlin, Pascads Leben, pp. 108 sqq., 346 sqq., Stuttgart, 1840; F. G. L. Strippelmann, Der christliche Eid, i. 137 sqq., Cassel, 1855; J. Huber, Der Jesuitenorden, pp. 293 294, Berlin, 1873; W. Herrmann, Romiache and euangelische SiWichkeit, Marburg, 1901; Graf von Hoensbroech, Das Papsttum, ii. 223 244, Leip~ sic, 1902.
RESERVATION, PAPAL: The act of the pope in reserving to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices. From the close of the twelfth century instances occur in which, when clericals from elsewhere died at Rome, the vacancies were disposed of by the pope. Thus Innocent III. (11981216) in the first year of his pontificate gave the prebend in Poitiers of Aimericus de Portigny, who died at Rome, to his nephew who was serving in the papal chancellery, and repeatedly thereafter disposed of vacant places in like manner. The bishops thus interfered with tried to meet the encroachment upon their powers by means of procurators at Rome. The popes, however, were loath to forego the privilege they had gained, and Clement IV. in 1265 made a formal " reservation of churches, dignities, patronages, and benefices which happen to become vacant in the presence of the Apostolic seat," to which Honorius IV. added, in 1286, the case of one who had resigned his benefice into the pope's hands. Gregory X. ordered that appoint
ment must take place within a month, in default of which the right would return to the bishops or their vicars general. Boniface VIII. reaffirmed this ordinance; construed " in the presence of the apostolic seat " to be a radius within two days' journey of the residence of the Curia, for the respective cases; and ordered that parochial churches that had become vacant during the disoccupation of the papal chair or that the pope had not filled before his death, were excepted. Another papal reservation related to the cathedral churches and exempt prelacies. The right to approve their suffragan bishops was gradually, from the beginning of the thirteenth century, taken away from the metropolitans by the popes, and constructed into a formal reservation by Clement V., John XXII., and their successors. After the removal of the popes to Avignon the reservations increased in scope and were exercised in such ways as to arouse bitter complaints. The Council of Basel (q.v.) ordered a general limitation of reservations, which was in the main accepted in France, but again modified in favor of the pope by the Concordat of 1516.between Leo X. and Francis I. (see CONCORDATS AND DELIMITING BULIa, III., 2). In Germany the older regulations were resumed in the Vienna Concordat of 1448, between Nicholas V. and Friedrich III. (see CONCORDATS, etc., III., 1, § 2). Papal reservations were henceforth to be: (1) benefices becoming vacant in curia, in the original sense; (2) places in cathedral churches and immediate cloisters and foundations in which canonical election prevailed, in case the pope could not approve an election or accept a postulation; (3) likewise in case of deposition, withdrawal, transference, or renunciation, in which the pope took part; (4) a place left vacant by the holder because of the acceptance of another offered by the pope; (5) the benefices of cardinals, papal emissaries, and various Roman palace officials; and (6) benefices vacated in the odd months (see MEN8Es PAPALES). Fresh extensions and interpretations of these reservations led to renewed complaints, which found expression at the Diet of Nuremberg in 1522 in the proposed abolition of the Gravamina (q.v.). The Council of Trent effected some reforms in favor of chapters and bishops relating to incompatibles as well as to the " mental reservations " introduced by Alexander VI., according to which a canonical election is anticipated by reserving in mind another aspirant as an intendant for the benefice (expectancy). The attempts of the popes from Pius V. to claim anew various reservations were dismissed, in Germany at least, by reference to the Concordat of 1448. Especially was the privilege denied, in the case of a resignation, where there existed a right of patronage. The above mentioned reservations, however, remained in force generally, until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. Since the restoration of ecclesiastical institutions in modern times and as a result of specific conventions between the German governments and the papal see, the papal reservations have been greatly modified, reserving to the pope mainly the highest appointments, and here and there vaguely admitting the reservations in curia and of incompatibles. Outside of Germany, also, there continues here and there a
restricted papal reservation, while in France and the
Netherlands it has ceased. (E. FRIEDBERG.)
494 RESERVATION OF THE SACRAMENT: The keeping back from the public service of the Holy Communion of portions of the consecrated bread and wine for subsequent use. The earliest mention of this practise is in Justin Martyr
In the (1 APoI., lav., lxvii.; ANF, i. 185
Early186). .Describing the Sunday worship
Church. of Christians, he says that distribu
tion i$ made to each of his share of the
elements which have been blessed, and to those
who are not present it is sent by the ministry of the
deacons. Tertullian (200 A.D.) speaks of the Lord's
body being reserved and carried home from the
public service for later private consumption (De
orations, tea.; Eng. transl., ANF, iii. 687; Ad
uxorem, IL, v., Eng. transl., ANF, iv. 467). Euse
bius (Hist. eccl., VI., xliv. Eng. tranal., NPNF,
2 ser., i. 290) quotes an account by Dionysius of
Alexandria of an aged man who, under persecu
tion, had joined in an act of idolatry, but in his
last sickness earnestly desired reconciliation with
the Church, to whom a small portion of the
eucharist was tent by a messenger. Basil (350 A.D.)
writes of the custom among the religious solitaries:
"All those who live in solitudes as monks or her
mits, where there is no priest, keeping the commu
nion in their houses, take it with their own hands.
And in Alexandria and in Egypt each, even of the
lay people, for the moat part has the communion in
his own house, and when he wills communicates
himself. For when once the priest has consecrated
the sacrifice and has delivered it, he who has once
received it as a whole, and partakes of it day by day,
ought to believe that he partakes and receives from
the hand of him who has given it" (Epiat., xciii.,
cf. NP NF, 2 ner., viii. 179). This custom was natur
ally resorted to in times of persecution. An allusion
of Jerome (Epist., cxxv., NPNF, 2 aer. vi. 251)
implies that in some cases and places the sacra
ment was thus taken home: " None is richer than
(a bishop of Toulouse), for his wicker basket con
is reserved for the purpose of communion only. For
this use, some of the consecrated bread is steeped
in the chalice, and is preserved in a box usually be
hind the altar. In the Latin Church since the Coun
cil of Constance (1414) only the actual celebrant
of the mass partakes of the cup; so that the wafer
alone is reserved, and that in a receptacle called
a pyx (see VE$$ELa, SACRED), which was in earlier
times placed on or above the altar but is now (ex
cept when in use for exposition or benediction) itself
contained in a locked tabernacle above the altar.
At the Reformation the different Protestant
confessions vigorously denounced these uses of the
sacrament; e.g., Melanchthon's " Salon Confes
sion " declared, " It is a manifest profanation to
carry about and worship a part of the
In the Lord's Supper (art. xv.); cf. J. W. Evangelical Richard, Philip Melanchthore, pp. 353
Churches. 354, New York, 1898), and so the West
minster Confession (XXIX., iv.; cf.
Schaff, Creeds, iii. 665). Art. XXVIII. of the Thirty
nine Articles i$ much more moderate in its wording,
simply declaring that " the sacrament of the Lord's
Supper was not by Christ's ordinance reserved,
carried about, lifted up, or worshiped." The first
English Prayer Book (1549) made provision for the
reservation of the sacrament for the communion
of sick persona under certain restrictions, which pro
vision was withdrawn from the second Prayer Book
(1552), and provision was made only for the pri
vate celebration in the sick man's house of the
ordinary service in a shortened form, including the
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495 consecration. The question of the lawfulness in
the Church of England of reserving the sacrament
for the sick was considered at a formal hearing be
fore the archbishops of Canterbury and York (Drs.
Temple and Maclagan) in 1899, and their opinion
was adverse. In the Scottish Episcopal Church
there has been a continuous tradition sanctioning
the practise; and recognized Anglican divines, such
as Herbert Thorndike (d. 1672), have advocated
it. ARTHUR C. A. HALL.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: W. Palmer, Originea liturpicte, fi. 232, London, 1832 (collects examples of early usage); W. Maskell, Monuments ritualia eeclesim Anplicance, i. p. ocxxiii., ib. 1846; W. H. Hutton, The English Church
(1826 1714), pp. 329 330, ib. 1903; F. Procter and W. H. Frere, New Hiet. of the Book of Common Prayer, pp. 77, 82, 121, 502, ib. 1905; J. H. Blunt, Annotated Book of Common Prayer, pp. 399, 472 473, New York, 1908.
RESERVED CASES. See CAsus RESERvATI.
RESIDENCE: The obligation on all holding ecclesiastical benefices of any kind to remain during definite periods in the districts assigned for their administration. It is a natural consequence of the requirement that every official must normally discharge his duties in person, an obligation particularly needful in the case of the clergy. So often, however, did the clergy leave the benefices to which they had been assigned, that synods passed stringent prohibitions of such abuses as early as the fourth century. Secular legislation here came to the aid of the Church, while residence was likewise stressed in the Frankish kingdom. Later the clergy were forbidden to travel without permission, nor was a plurality of benefices permitted to interfere with residence. Subsequently, however, the laws of residence were relaxed, not only as a result of pluralities, but also because canons, after the decline of chapter life, were frequently represented by vicars, while the prelates were often obliged to be absent on affairs of state. The Council of Trent accordingly renewed the requirements of residence, enacting that if any priest or prelate should be absent for six months in succession without good and sufficient reason, he should be mulcted of a fourth of his income for the year. An absence of six months more was to involve a loss of another quarter of the yearly income; still longer absence should be reported to the pope within three months, and the offending clergy should be replaced by more worthy incumbents. The council likewise stressed the requirement of personal residence for all, except in cases of evident necessity, the provincial synod being directed to guard against all abuses. Absence was, however, permitted for two, or at most three, months each year, provided it involved no detriment to the cure of souls. The permanent privileges hitherto given for non residence and income were now abolished, but temporary dispensations were still allowed, although the bishop was required to appoint proper vicars to obviate any neglect of pastoral care. Canons might not be absent more than three months. Those who violated this rule should be mulcted of their incomes, and permanent disobedience rendered the offender liable to trial in the ecclesiastical courts.
Besides the " dignitary and " double " (involving the cure of souls) benefices to which the
laws of residence just cited apply, there are also " simple " benefices in which residence is not obligatory. A distinction is accordingly drawn between residentia prwcisa, in which residence is required under penalty of forfeiture of the benefice, and residentia causitiva, where non residence involves only loss of the income of the benefice in question. If, however, an incumbent is absent from his benefice legally, he is regarded, by legal fiction, as resident, except in cases where actual personal attendance is necessary, as for receiving presence fees (see PRESENCE AND PRESENCE FEES).
In the Lutheran Church in Germany actual residence is always presupposed, the ecclesiastical authorities providing the proper substitutes if the incumbent is prevented from fulfilling his duties. Generally speaking, leave of absence must be obtained from the president of the consistory.
(E. FRIEDBERG.)
RESPIGHI, res pf'gi, PIETRO: Cardinal; b. at Bologna, Italy, Sept. 22, 1843. He was educated at the seminary of his native city and the Roman Seminary, and was then rector of a parish in Budrio until 1891, when he was consecrated bishop of Guastalla. Five years later he was enthroned archbishop of Ferram and in 1899 was created cardinal priest of Santi Quattro Coronati. Shortly afterward he was called to Rome to fill his present positi6n of cardinal vicar, and in this capacity is president of the Congregation of the Apostolic Visitation and prefect of the Congregation of the Residence of Bishops.
RESPONSES. See ANTIPHON.
RESTARICg, HENRY BOND: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Honolulu; b. at Holcomb, Somersetahire, England, Dec. 26, 1854. He was educated at King James' Grammar School, Bridgewater, Somersetahire, and Griswold College, Davenport, Ia. (A.B., 1882), and was ordered deacon in 1881 and advanced to the priesthood in the following year; was curate of Trinity Church, Muscatina, Ia. (1881 82); rector of St. Paul's, San Diego, Cal. (1882 1902), when he was consecrated first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Honolulu. In theology he is a positive Churchman, and has written Lay Readers: Their History, Organization, and Work (New York, 1894), and The Love of God: Addresses on the Last Seven Words (1897).
RESTITUTION, EDICT OF. See WEsTPHALIA, PEACE OF.
RESTORATION.See AFoCATAsTAsIs.
RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD: The Christian hope of a renewal of life after death was to a certain extent anticipated by the expectation of redemption current among the Jews Basis of the before the time of Christ; but its real
is true that the Christian exposition of the doctrine
presupposes the Jewish. While a thorough inves
tigation of the history of the latter is rendered dif
ficult by the uncertainty which prevails in regard
to the age of the sources, a tolerably clear idea of
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Rettig THE NEW SCHAFF HERZOG 498
the nature of the hope may be gained by a comparative study of the passages which relate to the subject.
The first trace of an expectation that some dead men (not the dead in general) will rise is found in Isa. xxvi. 19 (Hoe. vi. 2, xiii. 14; Ezek. xxxvii. 1 14, refer to the restoration of the national and
spiritual life of Israel). In this passage Bebrew and the hope of a resurrection appears in Jewish Rep connection with that of a glorious future resentation. for Israel. The prophet anticipates
a time when the righteous Israelites shall awake from death to a share in the blessings of the period of redemption. A fuller conception is found in Dan. xii. 2, where for the first time is contemplated a resurrection of both just and unjust, though still only of Israelites. Upon this follows a judgment, which will assign to the just eternal life in the Messianic kingdom, and to the wicked exclusion frorp that kingdom, " shame and everlasting contempt." Here again the close connection between the Messianic hope and that of a resurrection is to be noted. Frequent attempts have been made to adduce passages from the Psalms (such as xlviii. 14, lxviii. 20, xvi. 10 11, xvii. 15, xlix. 15); but a careful examination will show that they can not be pressed. In the deutero canonical and extra canonical Jewish writings of the preChristian era the doctrine is not strongly expressed. To conclude that it was not extensively held among the Jews of that age would be rash, but it probably had no uniform and well defined shape. The Psalms of Solomon speak of a resurrection of the just to endless life in the Messianic kingdom, and predict everlasting death for the ungodly. Josephus (War, II., viii. 14) ascribes the same view to the Pharisees. On the other hand, II Mace. xii. 43 45, vi. 28, express the belief that both just and unjust Israelites shall rise and be judged. The authors of Enoch (Ii. 1), II Esdras (vii. 32), and the Apocalypse of Baruch (xxx. 1 5, 1. 1 sqq.) expect a universal resurrection, either before or at the end of the Messiah's reign.
The doctrine proclaimed by Christ and the NewTestament writers, while having points of contact with the foregoing, develops along its own lines.
In the discussion with the Sadducees The New (Matt. xxii. 23 32) Jesus offers a speTestament cial proof of the resurrection of the
Doctrine. righteous (who alone are considered
here); but in other sayings of his the resurrection of the ungodly is taken for granted (Matt. xi. 24). Apparently he treats both as simultaneous (cf. also John v. 28, 29); only in Luke (xiv. 14, xx. 35) is there an apparent separation, and this may be the effect of Paul's influence on Luke. Paul himself distinguishes two resurrections, or rather three that of Christ, that of those who have died believing in him, which takes place at his secand coming, and that of the other dead (I Cor. xv. 21 24). He does not define the interval between the two latter; the Apocalypse places a thousand years between them (Rev. xx. 4). Of more importance than the question of time are the proofs which Christ and Paul offer of the fact. The former, in the passage of Matthew cited above, demon
strates the resurrection of the righteous by the fact that God calls bimself the God of the patriarchs, which can mean only that they will return to life, and that life, to be complete, must be a bodily life. What is true of them, is true also, as Luke puts it with a slight change of thought'(xx. 38), of all the righteous. In John (xi. 25) Jesus bases his statement about the resurrection of the just on the fact that he himself is the bringer of life; the life that he now communicates to them is the pledge of their future resurrection. The argument for resurrection, and now of all the dead, is carried to its height by Paul, who finds his warrant for this in the accomplished fact of Christ's resurrection (I Cor. xv. 21 22; I Thess. iv. 14). In and by it, men are objectively freed from the guilt of sin (I Cor. xv. 1718); and this carries with it the annulment of the penalty of sin, which is death. The New Testament writers accordingly have no doubt of the certainty of a future resurrection; the Epistle to the Hebrews enumerates it (vi. 1) among the first " principles of the doctrine of Christ."
The agent in this resurrection in all the Pauline passages is God the Father (Rom. iv. 17, viii. 11; I Cor. vi. 14; II Cor. i. 9); in John v. The Agent. 21, the Son is named as cooperating with the Fathei, and in John vi. 39, 40, 44, is the sole agent. These two conceptions are reconciled in that of the relations of God and Christ. All the dead in rising again experience the power of God (I Cor. vi. 14; Heb. xi. 19); but in the case of the ungodly this is a purely external operation, while in the righteous it is the result of the working of the spirit of life within them. This working must not, however, be limited to the maturing of a seed of life already within; the New Testament conception is rather that to the spiritual life already begun a corresponding bodily life is added (cf. Rom. viii. 11), and so life in the full and complete sense is reestablished.
As to the nature of the resurrection body, both Christ and Paul tell something. Both, however, speak exclusively of that of the righteous (Matt. xxii. 30; I Cor. xv. 35 sqq.; II Con The Resur v. 1 sqq.; Phil. iii. 21). Christ says
rection that a higher bodily existence than
Body. before shall be bestowed, referring it,
in order to make it credible, to the
power of God (Matt. xxii. 29), and asserting that
the methods of reproduction employed here shall
no longer prevail .there though he does not assert
that difference of sex shall disappear. Paul gives
fuller indications. The origin of the resurrection
body is from heaven (II Cor. v. 1 sqq.); it is a spir
itual body (I Cor. xv. 44), " fashioned like unto
Christ's glorious body " (Phil. iii. 21; 1 Cor. xv.
49). The designation of the body as pneumatic
does not imply that spirit forms its substance, for
this would not harmonize with the parallel " spir
itual body " of I Cor. xv. 44, but that it is a body
entirely adapted to express the spiritual life pos
sessed by the risen saints. It is no longer an ob
stacle to the knowledge of God face to face (I John
iii. 2; Matt. v. 8; Rev. xxii. 4); it makes possible
unrestricted intercourse with the other saints, and
the exercise of authority over the world (I Cor. iv.
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