dissertation — Concina, Theologia Christiana III
Dissertation II — What the Obligation of a Vow Is: on the Doubtful Vow, the Indeterminate Vow, One Extorted by Fear or Error, the Conditional Vow, and the Penal Vow
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Introductory remarks. Weighty questions arise in this disputation which I now undertake to examine; and — a matter of no small difficulty — I must, on several points, contend against very many recent casuists. Antiquity, and reason, will nonetheless stand by us, as we trust, that our reader may esteem it a greater and more useful undertaking than to treat questions that are not ancient, but new. For the rest, though many difficulties are unknown to the Fathers, since these questions were unknown to them, I have judged it worthwhile to discuss them, so that our reader may have ready at hand the questions others are accustomed to treat.
Within this division
- Chapter I — The obligation of a vow is explained: to what virtue it belongs — religion, or another; whether a smallness of matter can exist; and whether this obligation can pass on to others
- Chapter II — Can the obligation of a vow be fulfilled by others, or does it pass to one's heirs?
- Chapter III — On the time by which a vow must be fulfilled
- Chapter IV — On the doubtful vow. When the one vowing, in doubt, must fulfill it
- Chapter V — How indeterminate vows are to be interpreted
- Chapter VI — Several cases concerning vows indeterminate as to the quantity, or quality, of the matter, are resolved
- Chapter VII — On vows extorted by error, or by fear
- Chapter VIII — On the conditional vow, and on the penal vow
- Chapter IX — On the vow of assuming the religious state