Objective summit — divine authority; formal reason is revelation
Objective faith-certainty = highest/absolute > scientiae.
Foundation: divine authority/truth — firmer, less able to deceive.
Formal reason of assent: divine testimony/revelation (Trinity; Christ God-man — because God said it in the Gospel).
Latin
XX. Hanc esse summam atque absolutam, ac, ut diximus, ipsam scientiarum certitudinem superare, ex eo probant Theologi, quod fundamentum quo nititur est ipsa authoritas & veritas divina, qua nihil est magis firmum, atque immutabile, & quod minus fallere possit. Nam ratio propria &, ut Scholae loquuntur, formalis, cur credendis fides assentitur, est divinum testimonium, seu divina revelatio. Nempe hunc & illum articulum credimus, verbi causa, in Deo tres esse personas distinctas, & Christum esse Deum & hominem in una persona, quoniam istud Deus dixit & revelavit in verbo Evangelii.
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.