“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”
Mt. 5:8
“As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.”
Ps. 17:!5
“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold,”
Job 19:25-27
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Order of Contents
Articles
Historical
Did Christ Experience the Beatific Vision in his Earthly Life? No.
Latin
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Articles
1500’s
Junius, Francis – ch. 7, ‘The Theology of Vision in the Heavens’ in A Treatise on True Theology trans. David Noe (RHB, 2014)
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1600’s
Bucanus, William – Institutions of Christian Religion... (London, 1610), ch. 39, ‘Of Eternal Life’
‘What is the Object of Eternal Life’, pp. 486-7
‘But do not we Enjoy God already & See Him in this Earth?’, pp. 487-88
Hoornbeek, Johannes – ch. 13, sections 19-20 in Institutes of Theology, Arranged from the Most Fitting Authors (1658) tr. Charles Johnson. Quotes by Bucanus, Walaeus & Maccovius are provided.
Norton, John – ch. 15, ‘Of the State of the Blessed…’, pp. 327-337 in The Orthodox Evangelist… (1654; 1657)
Norton (1606-1663) was a New England puritan divine.
Strong, William – Bk. 3, ch. 3, ‘The Beatific Vision of God’s Essence Explicated & Applied’ in A Discourse of the Two Covenants… (London, 1678), pp. 283-301
Strong (d. 1654) was an English, Independent divine.
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Historical
Kirk, Kenneth E. – The Vision of God: the Christian Doctrine of the Summum Bonum; the Bapton Lectures for 1928 (Longmans Green, 1934) ToC
This is mainly, in 8 lectures, a survey of the doctrine from the Old Testament to the early 1900’s.
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Did Christ Experience the Beatific Vision in his Earthly Life? No.
Riissen, Leonard – ch. 11, ‘Christ’, ‘Controversy 1 – Was the soul of Christ from the beginning in a state of blessedness so that it knew all things and was not able to feel grief? We deny against the Papists.’ in A Complete Summary of Elenctic Theology & of as Much Didactic Theology as is Necessary trans. J. Wesley White MTh thesis (Bern, 1676; GPTS, 2009), p. 120
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Latin Articles
Voet, Gisbert – 73. ‘An Exercise on Thomas, Part 1, Question 12, Article 1, ‘Of the Vision of God, According to the Essence’’ in 2 parts in Select Theological Disputations, vol. 2 (Utrecht, 1648-1667), pp. 1,193-1,217
Vitringa, Sr., Campegius – Ch. 18, ‘Of [the Last Things &] Glorification, pp. 18-25, ‘Of the Vision of God’ in The Doctrine of the Christian Religion, Summarily Described through Aphorisms, vol. 4 (d. 1722)
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“Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.”
Mt. 18:10
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