Theological Theses · §1572 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Chamier: formally civil even when the cause is supernatural glory

Chamier splits civil cult into what it is in itself and what causes it.

A cult can be formally civil even when its cause is supernatural.

Honor of the Saints reigning with Christ is of that sort: not causally civil, because their dignity is supernatural, yet wholly distinct from religious cult, and so formally civil.

He allows the alternative name officiosus, dutiful.

Latin

XV. Paulo aliter vero ea de re philosophatur Daniel Chamierus. Nam observat civilem cultum dupliciter intelligi posse: vel formaliter, vel causaliter. Civilis cultus formaliter ipsi est, ille qui in se revera civilis est, & distinctus, imo separatus a religioso. Civilis cultus causaliter, quicunque tandem in seipso sit, est tamen a causis mere civilibus. Cum alioqui cultus formaliter civilis possit esse a causis non civilibus, sed supernaturalibus. Et talis est, ex ejus mente, honor qui Sanctis cum Christo regnantibus debetur. Quamvis enim eorum dignitas sit supernaturalis, ideoque cultus qui illis debetur non sit causaliter civilis, est tamen omnino distinctus a cultu Religioso, ac proinde formaliter civilis: nisi quis malit eum officiosum dicere. Panstratia tom. 2. lib. 19. cap. 5. num. 2. & 3.

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