Henry of Ghent · thesis 5.1

Thesis 5.1

Latin

Datur lumen superius lumine fidei, in quo Theologi uident ueritates theologicae scientiae.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12482

English

There exists a light higher than the light of faith, by which theologians behold the truths of theological science.

The sheet's locator for Farmer's English was given as None; the corresponding sentence was located at farmer1998:12547 and checked against it. One of Pico's series on illuminationism (Farmer's note, farmer1998:12524).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12547; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Henry of Ghent (section 5 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (2022)

Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 10.1 Ponere intellectum agentem non est necessarium.
• 11.2 Intellectus agens nihil aliud est quam deus.
• 5.2 Paternitas est principium generandi in patre.
• 6.7 Superior angelus illuminat inferioremnon quia ei uel obiectum presentet luminosum, uel quod in se est unitum illi particulariset et diuidat,
• 7.1 Possibile est prophetia in somnis per illustrationem intellectus agentis super animam nostram.