Puteanus: image of Christ alone gets relative latria, not absolute
Puteanus's line: when Christ's image alone is the material object, the latria owed is relative, not absolute.
Absolute latria tracks uncreated excellence in the thing; respective latria tracks excellence only by relation.
Latin
XLVII. Juxta alios vero simpliciter dicendum est, Imagini Christi, cum adoratur sola, & seorsim ab exemplari, deberi quidem latriam, sed relativam, non autem absolutam. Haec est enim Puteani conclusio prima ad articulum tertium quaestionis vigesimae quintae modo citatae. Quando objectum materiale adorationis nostrae est sola imago Christi, & ratio adorandi solus Christus, per imaginem istam repraesentatus, adoratio haec non est proprie adoratio latriae, aut, ut alii loquuntur, non est adoratio latriae absoluta. Caeterum adoratur latria absoluta quod adoratur propter excellentiam increatam, quae reipsa est in re quae adoratur. Adoratur autem latria respectiva quod adoratur quidem propter excellentiam increatam, verum quae reipsa non est in re quae adoratur, sed ad quam res illa habitudinem aliquam & relationem habet.
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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