A Topic of Moral Theology
When acts of faith are obliged
The precept binds per se and per accidens; renewing acts of faith.
The works themselves ask 7 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Faith · Profession · Condemned propositions · Diocesan Synod · Most holy Mary · Precept · Profession of Faith · Things to be believed explicitly · Virtue of faith · Abbot nullius · Confessor · Counsel · Delay · Explicit voluntary · Garments · Human Acts · Modernism · Mysteries · Mysteries of faith to be believed by necessity · One To Be Ordained · Possession · President · Summaries · Symbol
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. V, Pt. I, Chapter I. Necessity of Faith, n. 4 — It is not sufficient to have believed the necessary articles of the faith once in a lifetime. Our acts of faith must be frequently renewed; we must lead lives of faith, according to the divine precept. This divine precep… Read in context →
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. I, Diss. I, Pt. I, Sect. II, Chapter I. On the Precept of the Internal Act, n. 489 — I. The internal act of faith, that is, the act of believing God revealing, is necessary by necessity of precept. This is clear first from the fact that it is necessary by necessity of means, as we explained above (n. 488… Read in context →
Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.
Vol. I, Treatise On Virtues, Ch. I, Article I. On the Necessity of Faith, n. 188 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels
Vol. II, First Book: On the Theolog…, Tr. I, Chapter II: When They Are to Be Believed, nn. 16, 17, 18 & 19 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, Special Moral Theology, Treatise: On Divine Faith, Second Part: On the Act of…, Ch. I, Question Three: On the Necessity of Faith, nn. 709 & 710 (22 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, Special Moral Theology, Treatise: On Divine Faith, Fifth Part: On the Precept…, Single Question: On the Precept of Faith Itself, nn. ¶1, 789, 790, 791, 792 & 793 (31 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. I, Tr. V, Ch. I, Article I. On Necessity, nn. 153, 153, Q. 2, 153, Q. 3 & 153, Q. 4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium
Bk. III, Diss. I, Chapter II — A census of propositions which seem lax, culled from the Casuists, nn. III, V & VI (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Bk. III, Diss. I, Chapter V — What the Faithful ought to know of those things which form morals, and conform the life of Christians to the exemplar of our Master Christ Jesus, n. XIII — XIII. Question IV. When are the Faithful bound to elicit internal acts of faith? Answer. The Theologians distinguish a twofold obligation: one per se, the other per accidens. The first flows from the precept itself, pres… Read in context →
Treated under the broader heading Necessity of Faith — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Tanquerey · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Billuart, Summa Summae · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)