All Rome: only living, charity-formed faith actually justifies; Aquinas and Becanus
Setting the historical label aside: all Roman doctors confess dead faith without charity does not profit to salvation or justice, and no faith actually saves and justifies unless it is living and effective through love.
Aquinas: unformed faith is not a virtue; formed faith is, because we are justified only through what has the nature of a virtue.
Becanus for Catholics generally: faith can exist unformed, but justifies only when formed by charity.
Latin
XVI. Sed hoc misso, fatentur Doctores omnes Ecclesiae Romanae fidem mortuam, & quae cum charitate juncta non est, ad salutem non prodesse, nec ad justitiam assequendam valere, neque fidem ullum actu servare & justificare, nisi quum viva est, & per dilectionem efficax. Haec est praesertim Thomae Aquinatis doctrina. Etenim negans fidem informem esse virtutem, fidem formatam virtutem esse probat, ex eo quod per illam justificamur, quia scilicet, non justificamur, nisi per illud quod habet rationem virtutis. 2. 2. Quaest. 4. art. 5. Idem vero post Thomam expresse docet Martinus Becanus Jesuita, eandemque sententiam omnibus suis Catholicis tribuit. Catholici, inquit, docent fidem non justificare, nisi sit formata charitate. Item, Catholici docent eam fidem posse informem existere, non tamen, nisi formatam justificare. In Summa Theologiae Scholasticae, tom. 2. tractatu 4. cap. 2. num. 7.
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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