Unformed justifying faith means active faith birthing charity, not idle speculation (Vasquez)
When Romans call not-yet-formed faith justifying as root and foundation, they do not mean idle speculative faith, but an active faith that begins to work through good works, somehow generates charity, and presses toward it without yet fully possessing it.
Vasquez: only the faith-act that stirs affection counts as root and foundation in act (Disp. 210.7.54); Stapleton likewise ties not-yet-formed faith to obtaining charity through the prayer faith prompts (De Justif. 8.17).
Latin
XX. Caeterum quum dicunt Scholae Romanae Theologi fidem, etiam nondum formatam, justificantem esse suo modo, quoniam scilicet disponit ad justificationem, & est justitiae hominis coram Deo radix & fundamentum, per fidem nondum formatam non intelligunt fidem inertem atque otiosam, & quae mere speculativa sit; sed fidem quandam actuosam, & quae incipit esse per bona opera efficax, quaeque charitatem quodammodo parturit, & ad eam contendit, licet illam nondum adepta dici possit. Istud aperte docet Vasquez. Postremo, inquit, observandum est, quum dicimus fidem esse reipsa fundamentum & radicem aedificii & fructus spiritualis, non esse intelligendum de quocunque actu fidei, sed de eo qui ita congruit cum affectu, ut ipsum excitet & moveat. Fides autem quae affectum non movet, neque ex se actuosa est, ut alliciat voluntatem ad bonum, non habet rationem radicis & fundamenti, saltem actu, tametsi vera fides dicenda sit. Tom. 2. in primam secundae, Difput. 210. cap. 7. num. 54. Quibus consona sunt quae supra citavimus ex Stapletono, dum ait, Per fidem quae nondum formata est impetrari charitatem qua postea formetur, si tamen id fiat quod fides suggerit, id est, si oratio fidei adhibeatur. De Justif. lib. 8. cap. 17.
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)
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- 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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