Theological Theses · §1851 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Both Schools agree free choice is a faculty, not really distinct from intellect and will; two questions remain

Second, what we set out earlier makes it clear that both schools agree that free choice is neither an act nor a habit but belongs among the soul's faculties, and yet is not a faculty really distinct from intellect and will.

The questions of any weight now raised about the nature of man's free choice come down to two. With respect to which faculty is man said to have free choice? And what does the freedom consist in, on account of which our choice is called free?

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II. Secundo patet ex iis quae ante fuerunt a nobis exposita, utramque scholam in eo convenire quod liberum arbitrium non sit actus, aut habitus aliquis, sed ad facultates animae pertineat: neque tamen sit facultas quaedam reapse ab intellectu & voluntate distincta. Quae autem hodie de liberi arbitrii in homine natura quaestiones moventur alicujus momenti, ad hasce revocari possunt. Cujus facultatis respectu homo dicatur esse liberi Arbitrii? Deinde, Qua in re sita sit libertas a qua liberum in nobis dicitur arbitrium?

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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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