Theological Theses · §381 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Sadducees, Anthropomorphites, Tertullian on a corporeal God

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Sadducees: no spirits — so God must be body.

Anthropomorphites gave God human members; Tertullian called God corporeal.

Augustine excuses him as meaning substance / something real.

Latin

XI. Ex Judaeis autem Sadducaei cum nullum spiritum esse existimarent, nec tamen Deum esse diffiterentur, omnino videntur sensisse Deum non esse spiritum sed corpus. Nec etiam inter Christianos defuerunt haeretici qui Deum corporeum esse opinati sunt. Tales erant Anthropomorphitae qui Deo membra humanis similia affingebant, nec parum olim Ecclesiam turbarunt. Imo Tertullianus ipse disertis verbis affirmat Deum esse corporeum, libro adversus Praxeam: quo minus mirum est eum similiter statuisse animam esse corpus. Veruntamen Augustinus haeres. 86. quae est Tertullianistarum Tertullianum hac in parte excusat quasi pro eodem sumat substantiam & corpus, & dicere velit simpliciter Deum esse aliquid reale & subsistens.

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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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ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).

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