System of Sacred Theology · §3.28.2 · Ludwig Crocius

II–VII: definition; essential parts — body and rational immortal spirit

Click or tap any sentence to jump there. The side buttons skip a paragraph.

II. Humankind is the last of creatures, made by GOD through the Word from the dust of the earth, and by breath into his nostrils made a living soul, endowed with immortal rational spirit according to the image of God after His likeness. Briefly and in the philosophical manner humankind is defined a rational animal; we here, considering him in order to his creation, have described him from the biblical text — Genesis 1:26–27; 9:6; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Acts 17:28; 1 Corinthians 11:7.

III. In humankind there are to be considered essential parts, sex, and finally proper affections. IV. His essential parts are the animated body and the rational spirit. V. The human BODY is his visible part, a fleshy structure supported by bones and covered by skin, animated by breath — Genesis 2:7; Job 10:11; Matthew 6:25; 1 Corinthians 12:12. VI. The rational and immortal SPIRIT is the invisible part of humankind, powerful with intellect and will, so united to the human body that nevertheless it can be separated from it — Genesis 2:7; Zechariah 12:1; Matthew 10:28; Acts 7:59; 2 Corinthians 5; 12:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Revelation 6:9. VII. This spirit, though it dwells in the body, is through itself an essence without body.

Latin

II. Homo est creaturarum ultima a DEO λόγῳ facta de pulvere terrae, sufflatuque in nares ipsius facta anima vivens, spiritu rationali immortali praedita ad imaginem Dei secundum similitudinem ipsius. Breviter quidem et philosophico more finitur homo animal rationale; nos hic eum in ordine ad creationem suam considerantes descripsimus e textu biblico Gen. I.26–27; IX.6; Eccl. VII.29; Act. XVII.28; 1 Cor. XI.7. III. Sunt autem in homine considerandae tum partes essentiales, tum sexus, tum denique affectiones propriae. IV. Ejus partes essentiales sunt corpus animatum et spiritus rationalis. V. CORPUS humanum est pars illius visibilis, structura carnea, ossibus fulta et cute contecta, sufflatu animata — Gen. II.7; Job. X.11; Matth. VI.25; 1 Cor. XII.12. VI. SPIRITUS rationalis et immortalis est pars hominis invisibilis, intellectu et voluntate pollens, corpori humano ita unitus ut tamen ab eo separari possit — Gen. II.7; Zach. XII.1; Matth. X.28; Act. VII.59; 2 Cor. V; XII.2; 1 Thess. V.23; Apoc. VI.9. VII. Hic spiritus, quamvis in corpore habitet, per se tamen est essentia corporis expers.

Report a mistake in this passage

About this text

Ludwig Crocius's System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636), all four books: theology and its rule in Scripture; man's last end, death and the resurrection; God, the Trinity, creation, providence and sin; and the grace of Christ, the Word and sacraments, faith, the Christian life and prayer.

Ludwig Crocius (1586–1655) taught theology and philosophy at Bremen and sat as a delegate at the Synod of Dort (1618–1619). A Calvinist of the irenic school, he spent his career seeking common ground between the Reformed and Lutheran churches.

His System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636) is a full Reformed dogmatics in the high-orthodox style: precise definitions, ordered questions, objections raised and answered.

Date1636 AD (Bremen; Reformed professor)

EditionSyntagma sacrae theologiae (Bremen: Berthold Villerian, 1636)

English follows the 1636 Bremen Latin (Berthold Villerian), read chapter by chapter from the SLUB Dresden page images, with a machine reading of the same pages as a check. No modern English was copied. The author index at the end of the volume is not translated.

Reference

VD17 14:684303C. SLUB id335860389.

We have not yet re-checked this work against its source. We made this study translation with AI help. No scholar has yet certified it as faithful and complete. Open Latin on any section, or the Latin source link, to see the source text. It is not a critical edition.

Report a mistake