Definition clash: Roman firm assent vs Reformed fiducia definitions
Rome unanimously defines faith as firm assent to all God has revealed because of the Revealer authority; Reformed definitions of justifying faith look more varied.
Some Reformed keep assent but add efficacy and focus on grace-promises; most define by fiducia applying Christ merit, or heart-rest in God as author of eternal life.
Latin
LII. Jam autem in definienda fide justificante multum dissentire videntur a Reformatis Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae. Nam hi quidem fidem unanimi consensu definiunt firmum assensum adhibitum omnibus iis quae sunt Verbo Dei revelata propter Dei revelantis authoritatem & testimonium: Reformati vero varias, & quae multum diversae videntur, fidei justificantis definitiones tradunt. Et quidem nonnulli sunt qui jam allatam fidei definitionem probant & usurpant, nisi quod addunt fidem salvificam assensum esse efficacem, & qui potissimum circa promissiones gratiae versetur. Alii vero plerique fidem definiunt, certam fiduciam qua nobis Christi meritum applicamus, aut salutis per Christum obtinendae certam fiduciam & apprehensionem. Vel etiam, ut ante latius expositum fuit, acquiescentiam cordis in Deo, tanquam in authore vitae & salutis aeternae, ut per ipsam ab omni malo liberemur, & omne bonum consequamur, & quae sunt in hunc aut similem sensum.
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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