Theological Theses · §1801 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Roman questions about free choice touched only so far as they bear on present controversies

The teachers of the Roman School debate many questions among themselves about what free choice is and what makes it what it is. Most of these belong more to metaphysics than to theology, and there is no intention here of listing and sifting them all.

Only those will be touched, and briefly, that bear somehow on the controversies now inflaming the Christian schools and dividing them against one another.

Latin

I. De Liberi Arbitrii natura & essentia multas quaestiones movent, & inter se agitant Doctores Scholae Romanae; quae tamen potius ad Metaphysicos, quam ad Theologos pertinent: neque omnes hic recensere & excutere est animus; sed ea solum breviter attingere quae aliquo modo spectant ad eas controversias quibus hodie fervent, & super quibus inter se digladiantur Scholae Christianae.

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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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