index — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology
Index of Subjects
Index of Subjects.
The Arabic number indicates the marginal number.
The author's index of subjects, rendered with links to the paragraphs.
Abrogation of law: what it is 198; see Law.
Sloth: what it is; what kind of sin it is; its daughters 350.
Act: of man, human 40; elicited, commanded; external, internal; good, evil; natural, supernatural 41; first-first, second-first, second 46; whether internal acts can be prescribed 138; what a violent act is 57.
Human act: its principles 45; its impediments 47; habitual, actual 47 ff.; its morality 64; whence it is derived 69; its object 70 f.; circumstances 72; end 75; whether there are indifferent acts in the individual 93 f.; whether proper morality belongs to the external act 78.
moral: what it is 63; its conditions 63; whether the moral act and the human act are the same 63; imputability 79 ff.
supernatural: its conditions 96 ff.
meritorious: its conditions 102 ff.
Advertence: what it is 46; full, half-full, distinct, confused 46; what advertence is required for sin 287; what for mortal sin 314; signs of half-full advertence 314.
Sickness of mind: what it is 61; its influence on human acts 62.
Equiprobabilism: what it teaches; who defend it 243; not all defend it in the same sense 243; how far it differs from probabilism 243; by what arguments it is demonstrated 244; how it is refuted 245.
Alcoholism: what it is, when copious drinking is a grave sin 348.
St. Alphonsus de Ligorio: concerning his moral system 250; his moral works 251; his authority in moral matters 251; whether we can follow all his opinions 252.
Criminal anthropology: it brings nothing against liberty 23.
Aureole: why it is granted; of how many kinds it is 282.
Avarice: what it is; what kind of sin it is; in how many ways it is committed; its daughters 337.
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Beatitude of the other life: in what it consists 16; it is supernatural 17.
Delectable goods: what they are and of how many kinds 91; whether their use is licit 91.
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Cause of evil: when it is licit 83 f.
Causes de-obliging from law: exempting and excusing 175; what the excusing causes are 176; whether it is licit to place an exempting, excusing cause 178.
Circumstance of a moral act: what it is 72; how many there are 72; how far it gives morality to an act 73; of how many kinds it is 74.
Revocatory clauses: general and special 197; whether they take away privileges 197.
Collision of duties: what it is 205*; rules for resolving it 205**.
Concupiscence: what it is 51; of how many kinds it is 52; its influence on human acts 53; cause of temptations 323; what resistance is to be opposed to motions of concupiscence 324.
Roman congregations: what decrees they issue 133; how decrees are approved 134; what decrees need promulgation 135; their authority 135.
Moral conscience: what it is 207; of how many kinds it is 209; its force of obliging 208; dictate of conscience 207.
true and erroneous 210; principles 210; sin committed from erroneous conscience 210; how it can be discerned whether the conscience of a penitent was invincibly erroneous 210.
lax 211; what is to be said of the sins of those who have a lax conscience 211.
perplexed 212; rules to be observed by one who has a perplexed conscience 212.
scrupulous: what it is 213; causes of scrupulous conscience 214; signs of scrupulous conscience 215; its remedies 216; whether there is an obligation of acting against a scrupulous conscience 217; see Scruple, Scrupulous person.
certain: what it is and of how many kinds 218; principles 219; how a practically certain conscience can be formed 218.
doubtful: what it is 220; it is not licit to act with a practically doubtful conscience 222; twofold mode of laying aside a doubtful conscience 222.
Consent: required for sin 287; for mortal sin 315; for venial sin 317; signs of half-full consent 315; what kind of consent is required for legitimate custom 203.
Counsels: what they are 123; how they differ from laws 123; who attack them 124; whether they exist 124; what the evangelical counsels are 125.
Custom: what it is 200; of how many kinds it is 201; derogatory custom differs from prescription 200; force of derogatory custom 202; required conditions 203; obligatory custom 204; conditions required for it 205; whether law takes away contrary customs 205.
Contempt of law: formal and material 318; when a sin committed from contempt is grave 318.
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Declaration: comprehensive, extensive 158.
Decrees of Roman congregations: their value 135; how they must be formally issued 134.
Delectation: whether it can licitly be intended 91; how far acting for delectation alone is a sin 90.
- morose: what it is 333; what kind of sin it is 334; whether it contains the malices of the object 334.
Delegation: who can delegate, what is required for the use of delegated power, whether it expires by the death of the one delegating 129.
Deliberation: what it is 45; how far it is necessary for a moral act 45.
Derogation of law: what it is 198; see Law.
Depraved desire: what it is and of how many kinds 328; what kind of sin it is 329; when inefficacious desire is a sin 329; whether it is licit to desire evil for one's neighbor 330.
Determinism 20.
Dictate of conscience: what it is 207.
Dispensation of law: see Law.
Distinction of sins: specific, numerical; see Sin.
Ecclesiastical domicile: what it is and of how many kinds 151; how it is acquired and lost 152.
Gifts of the Holy Spirit: whether they exist 32; how many they are 32; their nature 33.
Doubt: what it is 220; it differs from suspicion, opinion, certitude 220; of how many kinds it is 220; twofold mode of laying aside a doubtful conscience 222.
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Drunkenness: what it is and of how many kinds 341; its formal malice 342; when it is a grave sin 343; whether sins committed in drunkenness, insults and blasphemies, can be imputed 343; whether it is licit to make oneself drunk for avoiding death; for driving away disease; for lessening pains, including childbirth; for driving away melancholy 342.
Drunken habit: what it is, how it is to be combated 347.
Elision: see Probability.
Epikeia: what it is 160; when it is licit 160; see Law.
Bishop: has legislative power 131; in what matters he can dispense 182; whom he can dispense 183.
Ethics: its relation to moral theology; ancient and Christian, Catholic and Protestant 4.
Euthanasia: what it is, how far it is licit 346.
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End of a moral act: what it is 75; of how many kinds it is 76; how far it gives morality to an act 77; whether it sanctifies the means 77.
ultimate end of man: what it is 13; primary, secondary 15; whether it is supernatural 17; means to the ultimate end 18; obligation of tending to it 37 f.
end of law: when it ceases adequately, inadequately; contrarily, negatively 199; whether law ceases if its end ceases 199.
Fortitude: what it is 275; its object, its proper act 276; vices opposed to fortitude 277; its integral and potential parts 278; its principal act is martyrdom 279.
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Depraved joy: what it is 331; of how many kinds its object is 331; what kind of sin it is 332; whether it is a sin to rejoice concerning the mode in which evil was perpetrated 332, concerning the good effect of evil 332, concerning evil on account of a good effect 332.
Glory of God: internal, external; objective, formal 14.
Grace granted and to be granted: what it is 121; whether it expires by the death of the one granting 129.
Gluttony: what it is and of how many kinds, in how many ways it can be committed; what kind of sin it is; its daughters 339; whether it is a grave sin to eat up to vomiting 339; to feed on human flesh 339.
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Habit: what it is, how it is acquired, habit and custom 59; its influence on human acts 60; substantive, operative 254.
Hypnosis: whether it removes liberty 61.
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Ignorance: what it is 48; how it differs from error and inadvertence 48; of how many kinds it is 49; its influence on human acts 50; whence the quantity of fault in sins of ignorance is taken 50; whether all simply vincible ignorance, not crass ignorance, is a light sin 50.
Impediments of a human act: see Human act.
Imperfection: how many kinds are distinguished 286.
Imputation, imputability: what it is 79; conditions of imputability 80; of a good and evil act 81; of good and evil effects voluntary in the cause 82; when they are imputed 85; of sin committed from a depraved habit 86.
Intention: what it is 43; actual, virtual, habitual 43.
Envy: what it is; whence it arises; what kind of sin it is; its daughters 338.
Involuntary: what it is 44; of how many kinds it is 44; differs from the non-voluntary 44.
Indeterminism 20.
Practical judgment: what it is 45; how far it is necessary for a morally good act 45; see Conscience.
Jurisdiction: what it is 127; how it differs from dominative power 127.
- ecclesiastical: what it is 128; how it differs from civil jurisdiction 128; of how many kinds it is 128; when delegated jurisdiction can be subdelegated 129; whether it expires by the death of the one delegating 129.
Right (ius): what it is 266; of how many kinds it is 267; connatural, acquired; alienable, inalienable 205*.
Justice: it is taken in three ways 268; its species 269; its parts 273; commutative 270; distributive 271; legal 272; social 272; vindicative 272; commutative justice induces the obligation of restitution if it has been injured 274.
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Laxism: what it teaches; who defend it; how it is refuted 232; who are called laxists 232.
Law: what it is 106; differs from a precept 107; of how many kinds it is 110; when it begins to oblige 155; to what it obliges 163; whether fear excuses from law 176.
eternal: what it is 111; how it differs from other laws 111.
natural: what it is 112; what it prescribes 112; how it is promulgated 112; it contains precepts of three kinds 113; whether it can be unknown 114; how far it is immutable 116 f.
old: how far it has been abrogated 119; when it was abrogated 119; how long it could licitly be observed 119.
positive divine: what it is 118; why it is called supernatural 120; what precepts it contains 120; whom it obliges 121; it is absolutely perfect 121; whether the Church can dispense in it 122.
human: power of making it 127; who can make laws in the Church 131; how its object must be constituted 136 ff.; whether it can prescribe internal acts 138; whether heroic acts 140; whether it extends itself to past acts 141.
penal: what it is 164; whether it can be established 164; whether it exists 175.
invalidating: what it is 166; of how many kinds it is 167; whether a civil invalidating law invalidates an act only civilly 168.
founded on presumption: what it is and of how many kinds 169; what force it has 170.
Subject of law: what it is in general 142; what it is in natural, positive, divine, and human law 143; whether heretics are held by the laws of the Church 144; whether the legislator himself is held by his law 145; how far children are held by the laws of the Church 146; regulars 148; travelers 149; vagi 150; whether clerics are held by civil laws 147.
Promulgation of law: what it is 153; whether it is necessary 153; by whom it must be done 153; how it must be done 154.
interpretation: what it is 157; of how many kinds it is 158; authentic and doctrinal 159.
obligation: its quality, when it begins 155; it exists 161; it depends on the will of the legislator 161; whence his will is known 161; of how many kinds it can be 162; to what law obliges 163; how it can cease 175.
fulfillment: how law must be fulfilled 171; when it must be fulfilled 174; whether by the same act and at the same time satisfaction can be made for several precepts 172 f.
de-obligation: through exempting causes 175; through excusing causes 176 f.
dispensation: what it is 179; how it differs from license and declaration 179; of how many kinds it is 180; who can dispense 181; in what laws 182; who can dispense travelers 183; whether a bishop can dispense exempt religious 183; whether one having the power of dispensing can dispense himself 184; whether the supreme pontiff can dispense in divine law 122; whether an absent or unwilling person can be dispensed 183; whether a superior ought to dispense 185; what is required for a valid dispensation, what for a licit dispensation 187; one who uses a valid dispensation, but one illicitly sought, does not sin 187; whether it is licit to use a dispensation outside the diocese 191; dispensation can cease in four ways 188 ff.
cessation: law ceases by abrogation and derogation 198; by cessation of the end 199; see End; by contrary custom 202 ff.
sanction: what it is, of how many kinds it is, its end 108.
Human legislator: what power he needs 127; how someone is constituted his subject 151.
Liberty: what it is 19 f.; of contradiction, of contrariety, of specification 19; that it exists 21; knowledge and liberty 25; propensity of the will and liberty 27; habit and liberty 59 f.; sickness of mind and liberty 61 f.; moral statistics and liberty 22; criminal anthropology and liberty 23; psychiatry and liberty 21; what things influence liberty 25 ff.
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Martyrdom: what it is and of how many kinds 279; whether infants are capable of martyrdom 279; conditions of true martyrdom 280; what disposition is required for martyrdom 281; effects of martyrdom 282.
Merit: what it is 100; of how many kinds 101; conditions of merit de condigno 102.
Fear: what it is 54; of how many kinds 55; its influence on human acts 56; whether reverential fear can be grave 55; whether obligations contracted from it are valid 56; whether it excuses from observance of law 176.
Moral: what is called moral 63.
Morality: what it is and of how many kinds 64, 66; its proximate norm 65; supreme norm 67; it is not without God 68; its sources 69; whether an external act has proper morality 78.
Morphine: its effects 344; when its use is licit, whether in the article of death 345.
Motions: first-first, second-first, second 46; what resistance is to be opposed to motions of concupiscence 324.
World: how far it must be fled 39.
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Object of a moral act: what it is 70; of how many kinds 71; how far it gives morality to an act 70.
Obligation: physical, moral 109; its principle 109; of tending to the ultimate end 37 f.; of law, see Law.
Duties: their divisions 205*.
Omission: how far the omission of a work not prescribed is a sin 92.
Opinion: what it is 223; an opinion speculatively probable is not always practically probable 224; a tenuously probable opinion is not truly probable 224; what an only probable opinion is 224; safe opinion, less safe, safer 225; truly probable opinion 235; more probable, equiprobable, less probable, most probable opinion 225; when the safer opinion must be chosen 234; what is required so that a probable opinion can be chosen 235; when it is licit to use a probable opinion 240; whether also in the case of a law ceasing 240, 246.
Order: moral 35; natural and supernatural 36; physical and moral 63.
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Pastor: whether he can dispense and delegate the power of dispensing 182.
Sin: what it is 286; how far it differs from imperfection 286; requisites for sin 287; there is no philosophical sin 288; manifold division of sin 289; of omission 290; theological distinction of sin 291; there are mortal and venial sins 292; criteria for discerning between them 293; sins grave from their whole genus, light from their whole genus, grave from their genus 294; indeliberate sin 317.
Mortal sin: its essence 295; its effects 296; conditions of mortal sin 313; of venial sin 317; in what sins smallness of matter is found 294; signs of half-full advertence 314; signs of half-full consent 315; how one sins who thinks nothing about whether the matter is grave or light 314; who doubts whether something is grave or light 314; who deliberates about committing sin 315.
venial: its essence 297; why it is called venial 297; its effects 298; conditions required for it 317.
Specific distinction of sins: whether sins are specifically distinct 301; norm for distinguishing sins specifically 301 f.; whether sins of commission and omission against the same virtue are of the same species 302; whether sins opposed to several precepts about the same matter are of diverse species 303.
numerical distinction: it is derived from a twofold source 304; when several acts constitute one act morally 305; when several objects constitute one object morally 310; when acts of the will are morally interrupted 306; when internal acts are multiplied 307; acts to be completed externally 308; external acts 309; internal acts referred to several objects 311; external acts referred to several objects 312.
gravity: the gravity of mortal sins is diverse 320; in how many ways a grave sin becomes light 316; in how many ways a light sin becomes grave 318; whether several venial sins constitute a mortal sin 319.
Origin of sin: what it is 321; through temptation 322.
- danger of sin: what it is and of how many kinds 325; how far we are held to avoid grave danger, how far light danger 326.
Internal sins: how many are distinguished 327; whether they differ in moral species 327.
capital: why they are so called 335; how many are numbered 335.
crying to heaven: what they are 351.
against the Holy Spirit: what are so called according to Scripture 352; what according to theologians 353; in what sense they are irremissible 352 f.
Travelers: who are so called, what laws they ought to observe, what privileges they enjoy 149.
Legislative power: to whom it belongs in the Church 131; civil 132.
of dispensing: what it is and of how many kinds 181; to whom it belongs 182; whether it must be interpreted broadly 181.
dominative: what it is, how it differs from jurisdiction, whence it arises 127.
Precepts of natural law: of how many kinds they are 113; see Law.
Presumption: what it is and of how many kinds 169.
Principle of moral theology: what it is 11; what the supreme principle is 34; see Moral theology.
- of probabilism 233.
Principle of possession: 248.
Principles of a human act: what they are 45; see Human act.
Privilege: what it is 192; of how many kinds it is 193; who can grant it 194; to whom it can be granted, how it can be granted 194; whether we are held to use a privilege 195; how a privilege must be interpreted 196; in how many ways a privilege ceases 197; whether revocatory clauses take away privileges 197.
Probabiliorism: what it teaches, who defend it, how it is refuted 231; how probabiliorists form a practically certain conscience 231.
Probabilism: what it teaches 233; who defend it 233; its declaration 235 f.; its demonstration 237; its use 240; also in the case of a law ceasing 240, 246; how far it has been approved by the Church 239; lax probabilism, see Laxism.
Probability: what it is 223; of how many kinds it is 224; external probability makes an opinion truly probable 236; when greater probability elides lesser probability 235.
Natural propensity: whether it removes the voluntary and sin 20, 27.
Condemned propositions: which pertain to moral matters 10; commentaries on them 10 note.
Prudence: what it is, its object, its functions 263; vices opposed to prudence 264; its integral, subjective, and potential parts 265.
Psychiatry: it brings nothing against liberty 24.
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Guilt: what guilt of fault and of punishment are 296.
Rule of morals: proximate and remote, subjective and objective 105, 208.
Remorse of conscience: what it is 209.
Resistance to temptation: of how many kinds it is 324; what resistance and how far it is necessary 324.
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Scruple, scrupulous person: what a scruple is 213; a scruple does not remove a practically certain conscience 213; causes of scruples 214; signs 215; remedies 216; principal object 217; mode of acting with scrupulous persons 217.
Moral statistics: what it is 22; it proves nothing against moral liberty 22.
Pride: what it is 336; what kind of sin complete and incomplete pride are 336; its daughters 336.
Regular superiors: they can make laws 131; in what matters they can dispense 182.
Superioresses of nuns: they cannot make laws nor dispense, but only command by force of dominative power 131.
Synteresis: what it is, how it differs from conscience and from moral science 206 f.
Moral system: for what it helps 226; what it is 227; how many moral systems there are 228; probabilistic and antiprobabilistic systems 228; licit, illicit 228; historical conspectus 238; system of St. Alphonsus 250.
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Taciturnity: what it signifies 43, 4; sense of the axiom: he who is silent seems to consent 43, 4.
Temperance: what it is 283; its object 283; vices opposed to temperance 284; its integral, subjective, and potential parts 285; how it must be preserved 340.
Temptation to sin: what it is 322; of how many kinds it is 322; its causes 323; what resistance is to be opposed to it 324.
Theologians: their authority in moral theology 10.
Moral theology: its nature 1, 2; it is a theological, practical science 3; its relation to kindred sciences 5; method 6, 7; division 8; whether it is a doctrine concerning virtues or concerning duties 2; its sources 9; its loci 10; its principles: what they are 11; division of moral theology concerning principles 12; its supreme principle 34; see Principles.
Condemned theses: see Condemned propositions.
Sadness concerning good: what kind of sin it is 332.
Absolute tutiorism: who teaches it, who defend it, how it is refuted 229; mitigated: what it teaches, who defend it, how it is refuted 230; when the safer part must be followed 234.
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Vagi: who they are, what laws they ought to observe 150.
Violence: what it is 57; of how many kinds 57; its influence on human acts 58; whether it can fall upon the will 57; what resistance is to be opposed to it 58.
Force: see Violence.
Virtue: what it is 254; of how many kinds it is 255; its subject 254; its formal and material object 254; mean of virtue: what it is; of how many kinds it is; which virtues have a mean on the part of the object 256; connection of virtues 257; their diverse perfection 261.
Moral virtues: infused 30; what they are 255; they have a mean on the part of the object 256; their connection 257; whence their specific distinction is taken 258.
- cardinal: how many and which they are 259; their object and subject 259; they can be considered in three ways 262; their annexed parts 260.
Supernatural virtues: whether they exist 28; what they are 29, 30; what they effect 31; how they differ from acquired virtues 31.
- theological: what they are and which they are, how they are increased and lost 29.
Voluntary: what it is 42; it differs from the willed, the spontaneous, the free 42; of how many kinds it is 43.
- in the cause: what it is 43; whether it is imputed to the agent 82; under what conditions 82; when an evil effect is imputed 85.
Vomiting: whether it is a grave sin to eat up to vomiting 339.
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