Theological Theses · §919 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Contarini and Cajetan: faith begins and ends in will; Bonaventure both powers

Contarini: faith begins in obedient will, yields intellect-assent and promise-trust, and ends again in will.

Cajetan (John 6) and Bonaventure: believing in God joins intellect and will / cognitive and affective powers.

Latin

XXVIII. Huc spectant verba illa Cardinalis Contareni, in tractatu de Justificatione: Fides incipit a voluntate, quae obediens Deo & fidei, efficit ut intellectus assentiatur, absque haesitatione, traditis a Deo, & ideo promissionibus divinis confidat, & conceptat ex illis firmam fiduciam, quae pertinet ad voluntatem; ut quasi circulo quodam incipiat a voluntate haec fides, & desinat in voluntatem. Quibus consonat illud Cardinalis Cajetani, Credere in Deum est credendo confidere, & tendere in Deum, quod continet in se actum intellectus & voluntatis: in Joh. 6. Et eadem fuit sententia veterum Scholasticorum; qui teste Bonaventura in 3. Sent. dist. 23. docuerunt, fidem quodammodo esse in potentia cognitiva, & quodammodo in potentia affectiva; & ipse docet fidem, ut est virtus, & principium meriti, respicere liberum arbitrium, ut subjectum.

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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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