System of Sacred Theology · §3.3.6 · Ludwig Crocius

IX-XII. Distinctions: mediate/immediate; philosophical/theological; theoretical/practical

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IX. From what has been said a closer distinction of the knowledge of God is to be observed.

X. First, one is mediate, another immediate. That is in the present; this in the life to come.

XI. Second, that is philosophical or natural, or truly theological. That is drawn from nature's principles by discourse, and is crude, unclear, and limited... This is perceived from God's word, and is more learned, plainer, and fuller.

XII. Third, this is theoretical or practical. That is merely historical and bare; this includes the obedience prescribed by God's word, joined with piety's affection and saving.

Latin

IX. E dictis est cognitionis Dei pressius observanda distinctio. X. Primò, alia est mediata, alia immediata. Illa in praesenti, haec in vita futura. XI. Secundò, illa est philosophica sive naturalis, aut vere theologica. Illa hauritur ex principiis naturae per discursum, estque rudis, obscura, angusta. Haec e Dei verbo percipitur, estque eruditior, planior, plenior. XII. Tertio, haec est theoretica aut practica. Illa mere historica & nuda; haec includit obedientiam verbo Dei praescriptam cum pietatis affectu & salutiferam.

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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)

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