Question: are images adored properly or only improperly? Some older Scholastics say only improperly

Roman School question: proper or only improper adoration of images?

Some older Scholastics allow kiss, prostration, and honor-signs, yet call that adoration improper or abusive—acts toward images terminate on the prototype, not the image.

Latin

XXXIX. His ita observatis quaeritur in Schola Romana An Imagines sint proprie adorandae, an vero solum improprie? Et fuerunt inter veteres Scholasticos nonnulli qui fatentur quidem imagines aliquo modo adorandas esse, & licitum esse eas osculari, & coram iis procumbere, & circa illas alia honoris signa exercere, non tamen per hoc imagines proprie, sed improprie tantum & abusive adorari: quia, scilicet, actiones illae, quanquam circa imagines fiant, non tamen fiunt in honorem imaginum, sed in honorem prototypi, nec imagines sunt terminus ad quem refertur illa adoratio.

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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