Philosophy the Handmaid of Theology · §49

Whether charity is the form of faith

Article XXII. Whether charity is the form of faith.

1. Papists, after some Scholastics, make charity faith's form — faith without charity unformed and dead, formed by charity unto justification.

2. Orthodox reject this. Justifying faith is not shaped by charity as an extrinsic accidental form. Living fiducial faith justifies before charity formally considered — though charity inseparably accompanies living faith.

3. Dead (merely historical) faith is not the same kind as justifying faith. It needs not charity to "form" it, but the regenerating Spirit to make it living.

Latin

ART. XXII. Utrum Charitas sit forma fidei. 1. Pontificii, sequentes Scholasticos quosdam, docent charitatem esse formam fidei — ita ut fides sine charitate sit informis & mortua, & per charitatem formetur ad justificandum. 2. Orthodoxi rejiciunt: fides justificans non formatur a charitate tanquam a forma accidentali extrinseca; sed ipsa fides, quatenus est viva & fiducialis, justificat ante charitatem formaliter consideratam — quamvis charitas fidei vivae inseparabiliter concomitatur. 3. Fides mortua (historica sine fiducia) non est eadem specie cum fide justificante; non indiget charitate ut formetur, sed regenerante Spiritus operatione ut fiat viva.

About this text

Robert Baron — Philosophia theologiae ancillans from the 1658 Oxford Latin. Exercitatio Prima Art. I-XII On Being and Essence; Exercitatio Secunda Art. I-XV On the origin of the soul and the propagation of sin. Later Exercitationes / remainder of 213 pp remain.

English follows locked 1658 Oxford Latin. Prima Art. I-XII from IA PDF leaves ~15-53. Secunda Art. I-XV from PDF leaves 56-107 / printed pp.54-105 (tess+pdftotext+DjVu). No modern English copied. Exercitatio Tertia+ remain.

Catalogue & scope

Wing B887. IA bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_philosophia-theologi-an_baron-robert_1658. Exercitatio Prima Art. I-XII; Exercitatio Secunda Art. I-XV (De origine animae & propagatione peccati). Not whole Philosophia (213 pp). Exercitatio Tertia+ remain.

Witnesses

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