Dispute: is venial sin against the law, or only beside it?
Roman doctors split: Bellarmine’s camp sets venial ‘beside’ the law, mortal ‘against’ it.
Vasquez and others keep both venial and mortal as against God’s law.
Latin
XXIV. Quaerunt autem hic Theologi Ecclesiae Romanae, An peccatum veniale sit contra Dei legem, An vero tantum praeter Dei legem. Et quidem sunt inter eos multi, qui existimant peccatum veniale non tam esse contra legem, quam praeter legem. Et in eo constituunt discrimen peccati mortalis & venialis, quod mortale sit contra legem, veniale solum praeter legem. Quae est Bellarmini sententia, lib. 1. de Amiss. Grat. & statu Peccati, cap. 11. in Explicatione quinti Argumenti. Alii vero censent tam veniale, quam mortale peccatum esse contra Dei legem. Quam sententiam tenet Vasquez, Tom. 1. in 1.2. Disput. 143. cap. 3.
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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