Valencia/Tapper/Estius: Trent defined species-same faith without charity; number-same is certain but not defined
Valencia: accidents do not multiply the essence — formed or not is accidental to faith — so same-species faith with or without charity is of the faith.
Trent settled against heretics that true Catholic theological faith can exist without charity in faithful sinners; it did not define numerical identity.
Numerical sameness is now so common that the opposite is called rash; Tapper and Estius concur that species-sameness is de fide and number-sameness highly probable.
Latin
XIV. Ista docet inter alios Gregorius de Valentia. Primo enim probat eandem fidem posse esse tum formatam per charitatem, tum etiam informem; Constat, inquit, ea quae non pertinent ad essentiam rei, sed rei accidunt, non multiplicare ipsam, cum potest eadem res variis accidentibus subesse; sed quod fides per charitatem sit formata, aut non sit, accidit ei, nec ad ipsius essentiam per se pertinet. Postea vero observat ex fide certum esse quod eadem fides vera secundum speciem constare possit cum charitate & sine charitate, quod vero etiam eadem numero non esse ex fide certum. Neque fuit, inquit, in Concilio Tridentino de hoc controversia adversus haereticos, sed solum voluerunt Patres statuere, quod fides etiam vera Catholica & Theologica possit esse sine charitate, & reipsa sit in peccatoribus fidelibus. Non autem definierunt quod etiam eadem numero. Subjungit tamen id jam adeo certum esse, ut communiter Theologi sentiant, oppositum esse temerarium, eo quod repugnet in re gravi communi Doctorum sententiae. Tom. 3. in Summam Thomae, Disput. 1. quaest. 4. puncto 4. Quibus consentit Ruardus Tapperus; postquam enim conclusit tanquam de fide certum, quod eadem fides secundum speciem maneat sine charitate; addit, Perisimile etiam esse, quod eadem quoque numero maneat. Tom. 2. art. 8. pag. 64. Et idem etiam observat Estius loco supra citato.
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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