Philosophy the Handmaid of Theology · §56

Whether the theology of wayfarers can be called speculative from the speculation or vision that will be in the homeland

Article XXIX. Whether the theology of wayfarers can be called speculative from the speculation or vision that will be in the homeland.

1. Some call way-theology speculative from its end — God's vision in the homeland. That confuses way-theology with homeland theology.

2. Wayfarers' theology is not speculative from future vision as its present form — the present form is faith, not vision. It is ordered to homeland speculation as end; it is not merely speculative in the way.

Latin

ART. XXIX. An Theologia Viatorum dici possit speculativa a speculatione, seu visione, qua futura est in patria. 1. Quidam Theologiam viae speculativam dicunt a fine — visione DEI in patria. Sed hoc confundit Theologiam viae cum Theologia patriae. 2. Respondemus: Theologia viatorum non est speculativa a visione futura tanquam a forma sua praesenti; nam forma praesens est fides, non visio. Dici potest ordinari ad speculationem patriae ut ad finem; sed non inde mere speculativa in via.

About this text

Robert Baron, Philosophia Theologiae Ancillans (Philosophy in Service to Theology): the first exercise, on being and essence, and the second, on the origin of the soul and the spread of sin — newly rendered from Latin. Later exercises are not in this volume.

English follows locked 1658 Oxford Latin. Prima Art. I-XII from IA PDF leaves ~15-53. Secunda Art. I-XV from PDF leaves 56-107 / printed pp.54-105 (tess+pdftotext+DjVu). No modern English copied. Exercitatio Tertia+ remain.

Catalogue & scope

Wing B887. IA bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_philosophia-theologi-an_baron-robert_1658. Exercitatio Prima Art. I-XII; Exercitatio Secunda Art. I-XV (De origine animae & propagatione peccati). Not whole Philosophia (213 pp). Exercitatio Tertia+ remain.

Witnesses

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