Proper act of justifying faith is assent; notitia denied as faith act (Bellarmine)
Rome unanimously locates justifying faith proper act in assent to everything God revealed in the Word delivered to the Church, because of divine authority and testimony.
They deny that notitia (acquaintance, knowledge, or understanding) is faith act; Bellarmine even says faith stands against scientia and is better defined by ignorance than by notitia (De Justif. 1.7).
Latin
XXIV. Jam autem, si quis quaerat de fidei salvificae & justificantis actibus, qui & quales illi sunt, in eo consentiunt Doctores omnes Ecclesiae Romanae proprium fidei justificantis actum consistere in assensu quem Fideles adhibent iis omnibus quae Deus revelavit per Verbum suum Ecclesiae traditum, & propter divinam authoritatem & testimonium. Negant vero notitiam esse fidei actum, & fidem esse notitiam, scientiam, seu intelligentiam. Imo pertendit Bellarminus fidem in contrario scientiae, & melius per ignorantiam quam per notitiam definiri. Lib. 1. de Justif. cap. 7. sub finem.
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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