Theological Theses · §890

Love likewise: not absolute-faith act for Rome, yet included in living formed faith

On dilectio some Reformed deny it is a faith-act, others affirm; all Romans say love is not an absolute-faith act but another virtue.

Yet they freely grant living formed faith includes love, and credere in Deum means loving God and tending into God.

Latin

LXX. Similiter quoque res se habet de Dilectione. Nam vidimus quosdam inter Reformatos negare dilectionem esse fidei actum, alios vero istud docere atque affirmare. Omnes vero Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae in ea esse sententia, quod dilectio non sit fidei actus, sed ad aliam virtutem pertineat, nempe ut jam dictum, si fidei natura absolute consideretur. Alioquin ultro fatentur fidem vivam & formatam dilectionem includere, & credere in Deum, qui est illius actus, esse Deum amare, & in Deum tendere.

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

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