Theological Theses · §1576

Some Reformed, with Chamier, may reserve latria and dulia as names of different kinds, not degrees

Some Reformed writers will still keep Latria for God's cult and Dulia for creature-honor, as a useful distinction.

Chamier allows the Greek words only if they name different kinds, not higher and lower degrees.

Religious cult and civil cult are not synonyms and not analogues of one another.

Latin

XIX. Theologi tamen Reformati nonnulli testantur sibi non incommodum videri, si Latriae vox divino cultui reservetur, tanquam illi propria; honori vero & observantiae qua creaturae colendae sunt, singulariter aptetur vox Dulia, illique a divino & religioso cultu distinguendo inserviat. Id videre est apud Chamierum. Postquam enim pro certo constituit cultum Religiosum in solidum Deo concedendum, civilem vero ad creaturas pertinere: addit huic rei significandae nos uti posse vocabulis δουλείας & λατρείας: dummodo sciamus non esse ea nomina diversorum graduum, quasi secundum plus & minus, sed diversorum generum: ut omnino diversi sit generis cultus religiosus & cultus civilis, neque συνώνυμα neque ἀνάλογα ambo inter se comparari. Panstratia tom. 2. lib. 19. cap. 1. num. 11.

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

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