Doctors who ‘deny’ image-adoration mean only absolute latria—they still allow the relative honor the Councils sanction
Some Roman doctors ‘deny’ image-adoration and cry calumny—yet Nicaea II, Constantinople VIII, and Trent anathematize refusal to adore images.
Their escape: they deny only absolute latria to images, while still allowing the Councils’ relative honor-cult.
Latin
XXX. Quod spectat Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, videntur quidam eorum contraria docere iis quae ab istius Ecclesiae Conciliis definita jam ostendimus. Sunt enim qui simpliciter negant adorandas esse imagines, & clamant sibi per calumniam objici, quod Imagines Christi & Sanctorum adorent, ut fuit jam supra a nobis observatum. Cum tamen Ecclesiae Romanae Concilia, nempe Nicenum secundum & Constantinopolitanum, quod octavum Generale vocant, a Concilio Tridentino probata, anathemate sanxerint imaginibus esse deferendam adorationem. Verum mens istorum Doctorum non est Concilia jam dicta damnare, aut ab eorum doctrina ullo modo recedere. Etenim quum imagines negant esse adorandas, istud intelligunt de adoratione summa & absoluta, qua adoratur aliquid tanquam summus finis, & primum principium, ac omnis boni primarius author, quam adorationem soli Deo deberi agnoscunt; non vero de adoratione relativa, vel inferiori, qua imagines coli posse non negant, & quam solam etiam imaginibus tribuendam esse, Ecclesiae Romanae Concilia sanciunt.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.