Object/effects dispute — much logomachy from unequal definitions
How much does the object/effects question matter? Much logomachy.
Dissenters define praedestinatio unequally — more vs fewer decrees under the word.
Creatable-object party enlarges the definition to include create-and-permit-fall.
Mendoza even draws universal providence toward praedestinatio — then creation must be an effect.
Latin
XXXIV. Jam autem si quis quaerat quanti momenti sit illa quaestio de praedestinationis objecto atque effectibus, Respondeo in illa videri multum esse logomachiae. Etenim qui circa haec dissentiunt, praedestinationem non eodem modo definiunt: sed alii sub hac voce plura, alii vero pauciora decreta divina comprehendi volunt. Et hunc & illum actum divinae providentiae in praedestinatione includi hi quidem negant, illi vero affirmant. Nam qui praedestinationis objectum faciunt hominem creabilem vel possibilem, sic ampliant definitionem electionis & praedestinationis, ut illam ingrediatur divinum propositum de homine creando & lapsu ejus permittendo; imo nonnulli, ut Alphonsus Mendoza, universam providentiam ad praedestinationem quodammodo revocant. Quo posito necesse est effectum ejus esse creationem; & hominem consideratum, ut jam a Deo creandum, non recte ejus objectum constitui.
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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