Theological Theses · §1669 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

However they explain it, Rome's theologians now agree the first man's immortality was supernatural

However the theologians of the Roman school explain this immortality of the first man, they all now seem to agree on one point: it must be called supernatural, not natural, in the sense in which natural is opposed to supernatural.

Bellarmine above all affirms this and tries to prove it with many arguments (On the Grace of the First Man, chapter 9), as does Becanus (Summa of Scholastic Theology, tome 1, treatise 5, chapter 4, question 1).

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XI. Verum utcunque istam primi hominis immortalitatem explicent Scholae Romanae Theologi, in eo videntur jam omnes convenire illam dici debere supernaturalem, non vero naturalem, prout scilicet, naturale opponitur supernaturali. Id praesertim affirmat & multis argumentis probare conatur Bellarminus. lib. de Gratia primi hominis cap. 9. Et Becanus in summa Theologiae Scholasticae. tom. 1. tract. 5. cap. 4. quaest. 1.

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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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