Suarez’s three modes of adoration toward an image: exemplar alone; exemplar+image as one; image alone for the exemplar’s sake
Rome agrees images get some adoratio, yet Schoolmen split on how.
Suarez lists three modes: mind wholly on the exemplar; exemplar and image as one adequate object; image alone as matter, exemplar as reason.
Thomas III, disp. 54.4 is his locus.
Latin
V. Caeterum quanquam tota Ecclesia & Schola Romana in eo consentiat, Imaginibus Christi & Sanctorum cultum aliquem exhiberi & posse & debere, eumque cultum recte & convenienter adorationis voce significari; pluribus tamen ostensum est in cultus illius natura explicanda, multum inter se discrepare Scholae Romanae Doctores, ac super eo in varias abire sententias. Quae varietas ut melius capi possit & breviter ob oculos poni, advertendum est cum Francisco Suarez tribus modis intelligi posse fieri adorationem ad imaginem, seu in praesentia imaginis. Primo dirigendo totam mentis intentionem ad exemplar in imagine repraesentatum, tanquam ad objectum proprie, per se, & corde adoratum, & non ad imaginem. Secundo dirigendo adorationem tam ad exemplar repraesentatum, quam ad imaginem in qua repraesentatur, ex utroque, mente & animo conficiendo unum objectum adaequatum, ad quod per se terminatur, & quod sit adaequata materia circa quam versetur adoratio, ex intentione adorantis. Tertio, dirigendo adorationem ad solam imaginem, tanquam ad materiam, seu rem per se adoratam, ad exemplar vero solum, ut ad rationem adorandi. Tomo primo in tertiam Thomae disput. 54. Sect. 4.
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)
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- 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)
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