Theological Theses · §1875 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

What the deniers of indifference mean: equipoise, in which no Christian theologian ever placed freedom

Those who argue the other way, that freedom of choice does not require any indifference in the agent, seem to mean by indifference the will's equal balance (ἰσοῤῥοπία), when it leans no more to one side than to the other and can be swayed no more this way than that.

Yet no one who bears the name of theologian in the Christian Schools has ever made freedom consist in that.

Latin

XXVI. Qui vero contra pugnant ad libertatem arbitrii non requiri aliquam agentis indifferentiam, indifferentiae nomine significare videntur voluntatis ἰσοῤῥοπίαν, quum in hanc partem non magis quam in aliam propendet, & huc non magis quam illuc flexilis est, qua in re nullus eorum qui in Scholis Christianis Theologi nomen ferunt, libertatem unquam constituit.

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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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