A Topic of Moral Theology
Compensative Probabilism
The pseudo-probabilism professed by Manier, Laloux and Potton, expounded and rejected.
The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Equiprobabilism of St. Alphonsus (Aequiprobabilismus S. Alphonsi) · Probabiliorism · Compensation · Laxism (Laxismus) · Mitigated Tutiorism (Tutiorismus mitigatus) · Moral systems (Systemata moralia) · Probabilism · Probabilism, compensative · Rigorism (Rigorismus) · Simple Probabilism (Probabilismus simplex)
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. I, Treatise on Conscience, Ch. IV, AND ON THE EQUI-PROBABILIS…, ARTICLE IV: VARIOUS SYSTEMS CONCERNING THE USE OF PROBABLE OPINION, nn. ¶61 & ¶62 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Second Part: On the Virtue…, Ch. II, Question Two: On the Speci…, Article III: On Opinative or Probable Conscience, n. 99 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Summae S. Thomae (Billuart)
Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus II. On the Prima Sec…, On Human Acts, On Moderate Probabilism, On Compensative Probabilism, nn. 1–29 (29 passages)
Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume I
Slater, Cases I, Conscience, Case 7. An Abuse of Probabilism, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10 & ¶11 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The moral systems — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910) · Tanquerey · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Slater, Questions — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)