System of Sacred Theology · §1.3.1 · Ludwig Crocius

Written revelation is sacred theology's first principle; it is called Sacred Scripture

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CHAPTER THREE On Sacred Scripture

I. What the prophets and Apostles committed to the sacred letters is written revelation — sacred theology's first principle. From that written deposit the dogmas of the faith and of Christian life are first drawn, and every dispute about revealed things is finally resolved back into it. In that sense we call it Sacred Scripture.

Latin

CAPUT TERTIUM. De sacra Scriptura. I. Scripta revelatio est principium primum S. Theologiae a prophetis & Apostolis in sacras literas relatum, ex quo dogmata fidei vitaeque Christianae, omnesque de rebus revelatis disputationes primo deducuntur, & in quod ultimo resolvuntur: eodemque sensu SACRA SCRIPTURA dicitur.

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Ludwig Crocius's System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636), all four books: theology and its rule in Scripture; man's last end, death and the resurrection; God, the Trinity, creation, providence and sin; and the grace of Christ, the Word and sacraments, faith, the Christian life and prayer.

Ludwig Crocius (1586–1655) taught theology and philosophy at Bremen and sat as a delegate at the Synod of Dort (1618–1619). A Calvinist of the irenic school, he spent his career seeking common ground between the Reformed and Lutheran churches.

His System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636) is a full Reformed dogmatics in the high-orthodox style: precise definitions, ordered questions, objections raised and answered.

Date1636 AD (Bremen; Reformed professor)

EditionSyntagma sacrae theologiae (Bremen: Berthold Villerian, 1636)

English follows the 1636 Bremen Latin (Berthold Villerian), read chapter by chapter from the SLUB Dresden page images, with a machine reading of the same pages as a check. No modern English was copied. The author index at the end of the volume is not translated.

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