Reformed should not over-read Bellarmine ignorance over science line
Reformed should not charge Rome with requiring zero cognition for private faith or preferring ignorance to knowledge.
Bellarmine faith better by ignorance than science is harsh phrasing, but means science as evident knowledge we lack regarding faith-objects — not dissent from Reformed doctrine.
Latin
LXIV. Et similiter Reformati Scholae Romanae Doctoribus imputare non debent, quod ad fidem privatorum nullam rerum credendarum cognitionem requirant, & quod in iis rerum divinarum ignorantiam illarum scientiae atque cognitioni praeferendam censeant. Ac supra modum videntur exagitare illud Bellarmini, nempe, quod fides contra scientiam distinguitur, & quod fides melius per ignorantiam, quam per scientiam definitur. Etenim licet istud dure atque incommode dictum sit, ex Bellarmini tamen sensu, per hoc nihil significatur, quod ab ipsa Reformatorum doctrina dissentiat, ut patet ex iis quae antea fuerunt exposita. Ubi ostendimus Bellarminum scientiam ibi proprie sumere pro notitia quadam evidenti, qualem non habemus respectu eorum quae ad fidem pertinent.
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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