Interior latria vs dulia: supreme will-prostration to God as first principle and last end, vs lesser creaturely inclination
Interiorly latria and dulia part cleanly.
Latria is the will’s highest prostration to God as first principle, last end, and supreme good.
Dulia is a lesser bow to more-than-human yet still creaturely excellence.
Latin
XI. Porro Latriam, id est, cultum Deo proprium a Dulia, id est, cultu creaturis debito docent facile & optime distingui quoad actus interiores. Nam latria interior est quaedam summa voluntatis prostratio, & inclinatio, cum apprehensione Dei ut primi principii, & ultimi finis, atque adeo summi boni, qualis adoratio soli Deo convenit. Dulia vero interior ipsis est longe minor inclinatio voluntatis, cum apprehensione alicujus excellentiae plusquam humanae quidem, sed multum infra divinam.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
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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