Valencia: explicit faith for Apostles Creed; implicit enough for other truths in laypeople
Valencia distinguishes explicit faith (immediate assent to a truth) from implicit faith (assent wrapped inside another act with a different immediate object), as when believing Scripture is God Word implies all it contains.
In the time of grace everyone must explicitly believe the Apostles Creed articles; other scriptural or defined truths may be held only implicitly by lay faithful not charged to teach and confirm others.
Latin
XXXI. Gregorius autem de Valentia tractans quaestionem hanc, An scilicet necessarium sit ad salutem credere explicite omnia quae fidei sunt, vel sufficiat aliqua credere explicite? Observat primo nos habere fidem explicitam de aliqua veritate, quum elicimus assensum immediate circa ipsam: implicitam vero, quum assensum alicujus veritatis non habemus secundum seipsam, sed habemus illum quasi implicitum in alio actu nostro, qui habet aliud immediate objectum. Ut exempli causa, quum explicite & immediate credimus Scripturam esse Dei Verbum, implicite credimus omnia quae sacra Scriptura continentur, etiamsi eorum expressam notitiam non habeamus, nec de illis unquam cogitaverimus. Postea vero mentem suam explicans de proposita quaestione, asserit hoc gratiae tempore, omnibus necessarium esse explicite credere articulos illos fidei qui continentur in Symbolo Apostolorum: alias vero fidei veritates, quae praeter articulos illos in sacris literis, vel in Ecclesiae definitionibus continentur, non necessarium esse explicite credi a vulgaribus fidelibus, quibus in Ecclesia non incumbit ex officio alios erudire, & confirmare in fide; sed satis iis esse credere implicite ejusmodi veritates. Commentariorum Theologicorum in Summam Thomae, tom. 3. disput. 1. quaest. 1. puncto 5.
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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