Theological Theses · §391 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Deus est Deitas — Gilbert of Poitiers rejected

In God, the abstract and the concrete are one: God is Deity; goodness itself, justice itself.lf, justice itself.lf, justice itself.

John 14: I am the truth and the life.

Gilbert of Poitiers exploded — Person/nature not split names in God.

Latin

XXI. Idcirco nominibus abstractis & concretis in Deo res una plane, & eadem significatur. Nam Deus est sua essentia, & essentia Dei est Deus ipse. Homo non est humanitas, nec humanitas est homo: sed Deitas est Deus, & Deus est Deitas. Ac similiter quodcunque Divinum attributum, tam in abstracto quam in concreto de Deo recte & vere enunciari potest. Etenim Deus non tantum est bonus; sed etiam ipsa bonitas: nec tantum justus; sed ipsa justitia. Qui loquendi modus authoritate Scripturae comprobatur. Siquidem Filius Dei frequenter in Scripturis vocatur sapientia. Et non solum dicitur Deus verus: sed ipsa veritas: nec solum Deus vivens: sed ipsa vita, veluti Joan. 14. Ego sum, inquit, veritas & vita. Quapropter in scholis merito explosa est sententia Gilberti Porretani Episcopi Pictaviensis, qui tempore Bernardi docuit non eandem rem in Deo significari nominibus abstractis & concretis: ut hisce vocibus Deus & Deitas, Persona & natura. Adeoque hac etiam in parte Deus est omnino simplex & compositione caret.

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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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