True Roman doctrine on images is drawn from general Councils, universal practice, and common doctor-consensus
Three wells yield Rome’s real teaching on images: general Councils Rome owns, her universal practice, and the received doctors’ consensus.
What those three agree on may safely be called Roman dogma.
Latin
II. Ut autem certo habeatur, quae sit vera doctrina Ecclesiae Romanae de cultu imaginum, primo consulenda sunt Concilia quae apud ipsam habentur pro generalibus, & a Pontifice Romano probatis. Praeterea videndum est quae sit Universalis & apud omnes recepta Ecclesiae istius praxis. Denique examinandum est quid ea de re statuat communis doctorum in ea receptorum consensus. Nam ex tribus hisce fontibus hauriri potest vera & genuina Ecclesiae Romanae doctrina. Ac tanquam fidei Romanae dogma tuto haberi potest quod est in Generalibus Ecclesiae Romanae Conciliis definitum, quod firmat ejus praxis Universalis, & quod communi consensu Doctores illius tenent & amplectuntur.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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