Bonaventure — faith surer than sciences by adhesion, not speculation
Scruple-relief: Bonaventure’s cognition vs adhesion (as XIII).
Faith > sciences by adhesion-certainty, not speculation-certainty.
Martyr-cling vs geometer who won’t die for a theorem — faith forbids lying.
Latin
XXXII. Ut scrupulus iste tollatur existimamus commode hic adhiberi posse distinctionem illam qua utitur Bonaventura inter Scholasticos Doctores percelebris. Nam comparans ille fidem cum scientiis quoad certitudinem, distinguit certitudinem, ut nos ante fecimus, in certitudinem cognitionis, seu speculationis, quae pertinet ad solum intellectum, & certitudinem adhaesionis, quae praecipue respicit voluntatem, & ab illa pendet. Dicitque fidem esse scientiis certiorem, non certitudine speculationis, seu certitudine solum adhaesionis. Quoniam, inquit ille, fideles Christiani nec argumentis, nec tormentis, neque blandimentis adduci possunt, vel inclinari, ut veritatem quam credunt, vel ore tenus negent: quod nemo peritus alicujus scientiae faceret, si acerrimis tormentis cogeretur sententiam suam de conclusione aliqua Geometrica, vel Arithmetica retractare. Stultus enim & ridiculus esset Geometra qui pro sua sententia in controversiis Geometricis mortem auderet subire, in quantum fides dictat non esse mentiendum.
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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