Theological Theses · §1196 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Catholic vs private faith-certainty: public revelation versus private disclosure

Romans split faith-certainty into Catholic (public Church revelation) and private (personal revelation).

Only the former binds all as the common object of faith.

Latin

VI. Praeterea Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae hic distinguunt certitudinem fidei in certitudinem fidei Catholicae, qua creduntur ea quae per Ecclesiae doctrinam & testimonium omnibus constare debent a Deo esse revelata; & in certitudinem fidei privatae, qua creduntur ea quae privatae alicui personae, non vero toti Ecclesiae a Deo revelata sunt; aut saltem quod ad commune fidei objectum non pertinent.

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Louis Le Blanc, a Reformed professor at Sedan, sets out theology in theses argued against Rome: Scripture, faith, grace, free choice, good works and the saints.

This volume holds the Theses on Theology I–XLIII and On Faith I–XXII, in eighteen sections.

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu (1614–1675) was minister and professor of theology at the Academy of Sedan, the Reformed school on France's eastern border. His Theses were disputed by students over many years and collected in a London folio (1675).

The Theological Theses range across the whole Reformed system — Scripture, God, predestination, grace, and justifying faith — in the crisp thesis-and-proof form of the seventeenth-century schools.

Date1675 AD (Sedan theses; London collection)

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Reference

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).

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