Philosophy the Handmaid of Theology · §57 · Robert Baron

Whether true and properly so-called theology can be in an ungodly human being

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Article XXX. Whether true and properly so-called theology can be in an ungodly human being.

1. Can an ungodly person — hypocrite, heretic, or merely learned — have true theology?

2. As bare historical knowledge of articles and scholastic conclusions: yes. Demons and hypocrites know many true things about God.

3. As saving wisdom — living faith with fear of God and obedience: no. That theology is the Spirit's gift, inseparable from charity and saving faith.

4. Conclusion: theology properly so called is not in the ungodly; acquired theological knowledge and faith's history may be. End of the Third Exercise.

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ART. XXX. An vera & proprie dicta Theologia possit esse in homine impio, seu non regenerato. 1. Quaeritur an homo impius — hypocrita, haereticus, aut mere literatus — veram Theologiam habere possit. 2. Si Theologia sumatur pro nuda notitia historica articulorum & conclusionum Scholasticarum, potest inesse impio: daemones & hypocritaе multa vera de DEO sciunt. 3. Si Theologia sumatur proprie pro sapientia salvifica, seu fide viva conjuncta cum timore DEI & obedientia, non potest inesse impio non regenerato: quia talis Theologia est donum Spiritus Sancti, a charitate & fide salvifica inseparabilis. 4. Ideo concludimus: Theologiam proprie dictam non esse in impiis; quamvis notitiam theologicam acquisitam & historiam fidei in iis dari concedamus. FINIS Exercitationis Tertiae.

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Robert Baron, Philosophia theologiae ancillans (Philosophy in Service to Theology): exercises on being and essence, on the origin of the soul and the spread of sin, and on faith, science, and opinion, rendered from the 1658 Latin.

Dateby 1621 AD (first printed at St Andrews, 1621; this text is from the corrected Oxford reprint of 1658; Reformed)

English follows 1658 Oxford Latin. Prima Art. I-XII from IA PDF leaves ~15-53. Secunda Art. I-XV from PDF leaves 56-107 / printed pp.54-105 (tess+pdftotext+DjVu). No modern English copied. The third exercise, on faith, science, and opinion, is included.

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Wing B887. IA bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_philosophia-theologi-an_baron-robert_1658. Exercitatio Prima Art. I-XII; Exercitatio Secunda Art. I-XV (De origine animae & propagatione peccati). Exercitatio Tertia Art. I-XXX is included.

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