Theological Theses · §827

Scripture cue: faith working through love and James's dead faith make charity like soul to body

Their cue for calling charity faith's form is Scripture: Paul describes saving faith as faith that works through love, and James calls faith without charity's works dead.

Form is what something lives and acts by; so charity stands to faith as soul to body.

Latin

VII. Porro quod dedit illis occasionem vocandi charitatem fidei formam, illud est quod fides quae valet ad salutem, ab Apostolo describitur fides quae per charitatem operatur. Et quod Jacobus fidem sine charitatis operibus mortuam vocat. Etenim forma est illud per quod aliquid vivit & operatur, loca vero ista docent & innuunt fidem per charitatem vivere & agere; adeoque charitatem esse respectu fidei, quod est anima respectu corporis. Spiritus autem, seu anima est forma corporis viventis.

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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