Theological Theses · §1560 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Latria and dulia, with hyperdulia for Mary, though Scripture does not keep the distinction exactly

The Schools coined Latria for worship of God and Dulia for honor of holy angels and people.

Dulia is then split: Hyperdulia for the Blessed Virgin, and Dulia in the strict sense for the other Saints.

They admit Scripture itself does not keep that Latria–Dulia split with exactness.

Latin

III. Ut vero cultus ille facilius posset a divino distingui, Scholas utrumque cultum proprio quodam nomine signavisse: & divino cultui quidem Latriae vocem, illi vero qui Sanctis Angelis & hominibus debetur, Dulia nomen appropriavisse. Quae Dulia rursus distinguitur in Hyperduliam, quae Beatae Virgini, & Duliam proprie sic dictam, quae Sanctis reliquis competit: quamvis agnoscant in Scripturae usu discrimen istud inter Latriam & Duliam exacte non servari.

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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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