Theological Theses · §1498 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Popular books still say temples and altars are dedicated to Mary without scruple—Alexis de Salo and the Liège Manual

Popular Roman books freely say temples and altars are consecrated to Mary and the Saints.

Alexis de Salo’s Method and the Liège Sodality Manual put that praxis in print—altars first to God, yet in Mary’s honor and memory.

Latin

XVIII. Verum in usu communi, & in libris popularibus, qui plebis Romanae manibus teruntur, absque scrupulo dicuntur templa Sanctis, ac praesertim Beatae Mariae Virgini dicari atque consecrari. Sic in vulgari libello cui titulus est, Methodus colendae & honorandae Virginis Mariae, cujusque author est Alexis de Salo Capucinus caput octavum hisce verbis incipit: Ecclesia quae semper Spiritu Sancto dicitur ab omni tempore templa & Altaria erexit & consecravit Matri Dei. Et postea vota consecrare. Et similiter in Manuali Sodalitatis impresso Leodii An. 1624. leguntur haec verba pagina 110. Ipsam colimus atque veneramur templis, oratoriis & altaribus, erectis quidem primo Deo, Sed in honorem & memoriam carissimae ipsius matris.

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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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