Theological Theses · §1388 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Molanus of Louvain likewise defends carrying images in processions, setting them on altars, and clothing them in gold and precious garments

Louvain’s Molanus champions processions, altar-images, and gold-and-garment adornment against the ‘superstition’ charge.

Latin

XIX. Similia videre est apud Joannem Molanum Theologum Lovaniensem, qui in libro de historia sacrarum Imaginum, earum publicam circumgestationem, & positionem super altaria, studiumque illas vestibus pretiosis ornandi, tuetur & propugnat. Nam libro secundo capitis trigesimi quarti, lemma est, Imaginum in supplicationibus circumgestatio a superstitione contra haereticos defenditur. Et tricesimi noni capitis titulus est Sanctorum imaginibus non profane & Ethnice, sed religiose altaria exornari. Sequentis vero capitis, Imagines Sanctorum recte auro & argento tegi, & coronis, vel pretiosis vestibus exornari.

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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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