Theological Theses · §1627 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Origen's therapeia toward Gabriel and Michael is acknowledgment and imitation, not invocation

So when Origen, in that eighth book against Celsus, suggests that a certain therapeia, that is, a kind of honor and respect, is owed to God's true servants, Gabriel, Michael, and the other angels and archangels, that therapeia, by Origen's own teaching, can in no way consist in adoring or invoking them, which he insists is owed entirely and undivided to the one supreme God. It consists in acknowledging and celebrating their blessedness, glory, and holiness, and in devoutly imitating their obedience and love toward God. These are the ways in which he admits we may honor the holy angels.

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LXX. Proinde quum Origenes octavo illo adversus Celsum libro, insinuat quandam θεραπείαν, id est, honoris & observantiae speciem veris Dei Ministris, Gabrieli, Michaeli, caeterisque Angelis & Archangelis deberi, θεραπεία ista, juxta doctrinam Origenis, nullo modo constitui potest in quadam eorum adoratione, & invocatione, quae in solidum & indivisibiliter uni summo Deo deberi contendit: sed in illa beatitudinis, gloriae & sanctitatis agnitione & celebratione, & etiam obsequii & amoris erga Deum pia imitatione, quibus Sanctos Angelos colere nos posse fatetur.

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Louis Le Blanc, a Reformed professor at Sedan, sets out theology in theses argued against Rome: Scripture, faith, grace, free choice, good works and the saints.

This volume holds the Theses on Theology I–XLIII and On Faith I–XXII, in eighteen sections.

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu (1614–1675) was minister and professor of theology at the Academy of Sedan, the Reformed school on France's eastern border. His Theses were disputed by students over many years and collected in a London folio (1675).

The Theological Theses range across the whole Reformed system — Scripture, God, predestination, grace, and justifying faith — in the crisp thesis-and-proof form of the seventeenth-century schools.

Date1675 AD (Sedan theses; London collection)

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ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves).

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