Valencia: charity is metaphorical form only; faith and charity are distinct virtues
Gregory of Valencia agrees: theologians say charity perfects faith as a form, yet not as an essential or even accidental proper form — faith and charity are species-distinct virtues perfecting different powers.
Charity may only metaphorically be called faith's form by analogy to a proper form that perfects its subject.
Latin
VI. Quibus consona sunt quae observat Gregorius de Valentia, eandem fidei distinctionem in formatam & informem explicans. Theologi, inquit, affirmant fidem a charitate tanquam a forma perfici. Nec tamen sentiunt, quod charitas proprie sit forma fidei, aut essentialis, ut Anima dicitur forma hominis, aut accidentalis & extrinseca, ut albedo corporis. Hoc enim falsum esse ex eo perspicuum est, quod charitas & fides sunt duae virtutes specie distinctae, quae duas diversas potentias perficiunt. Solum igitur volunt Theologi, charitatem, quoniam perfectionem aliquam addit fidei, metaphorice dici posse formam ipsius, secundum analogiam videlicet ad formam proprie dictam, quae suo modo subjectum perficit. Tom. 3. in Summam Thomae, Disput. 1. quaest. 4. puncto 5.
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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