Treatise — Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis
Treatise II: On Hope
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Utility. - From this treatise the moral theologian chiefly has to gather arguments for raising and increasing the souls of the faithful by perpetual hope and confidence, and criteria by which true despair and presumption contrary to the theological virtue are distinguished from other sins of the same name.
The order of speaking will be this: first we shall explain the notion, necessity, and use of hope; then briefly the sins against hope.