Theological Theses · §1872 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The Reformed dispute over indifference can likewise be settled

The same considerations show that the disagreement still apparently left among teachers of the Reformed School can easily be settled.

Some of them hold that freedom of choice includes a certain indifference in the free agent, by which, given everything required beforehand for acting, it can act or not act, and do this or that. Others deny that any such indifference is included in freedom or has anything to do with it.

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XXIII. Indidem quoque apparet facile componi posse dissidium quod adhuc superesse videtur inter Doctores Scholae Reformatae: dum alii, scilicet, affirmant libertatem arbitrii includere quandam agentis liberi indifferentiam, per quam positis omnibus ad agendum praerequisitis, potest agere, vel non agere, hoc aut illud agere; alii vero negant talem indifferentiam libertate includi, aut ad libertatem omnino pertinere.

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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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