System of Sacred Theology · §2.9.5 · Ludwig Crocius

RATIO I. From the soul's natural union with the body; immortality seems to demand reunion (Thomas)

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REASON I. It is from natural desire and inclination. For the soul is naturally united to the body. For according to its essence it is the form of the body. Therefore it is against the soul's nature to be without a body. But nothing that is against nature can be perpetual. Therefore the soul will not perpetually be without a body. Since therefore it remains perpetually, it must be joined again to the body, which is to rise. Therefore the immortality of souls seems to demand that the resurrection of bodies will be future.

Latin

RATIO I. Est a naturali desiderio & inclinatione. Anima enim corpori naturaliter unitur. Est enim secundum suam essentiam corporis forma. Est igitur contra naturam animae, absque corpore esse. Nihil autem quod est contra naturam, potest esse perpetuum. Non igitur perpetuo erit anima absque corpore. Cum igitur perpetuo maneat, oportet eam iterato corpori conjungi, quod est resurgere. Immortalitas igitur animarum exigere videtur resurrectionem corporum futuram.

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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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