System of Sacred Theology · §3.10.6 · Ludwig Crocius

Further substantial composition genera (matter/form; integral parts) rejected

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The THIRD genus of substantial composition is that from matter and form. But that composition does not fall upon God. The Fourth genus of composition is that by which a substance is from integral parts. The FIFTH genus of substantial composition is from the actual and the potential. But these do not fall upon God, because they are refuted by open Scripture and reason.

Latin

TERTIUM compositionis substantialis genus est, quo ex materia & forma. At ista compositio in Deum non cadit. QUARTUM compositionis genus, quo substantia ex partibus integralibus. QUINTUM genus compositionis substantialis est ex actuario & potentiali. Haec autem in Deum non cadunt, quia aperta Scriptura & ratione refutantur.

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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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VD17 14:684303C. SLUB id335860389.

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