A Topic of Moral Theology

Contention

Quarrelling in words, a daughter of pride and vainglory, and when it becomes grave.

In the index as Contention · Discord · Capital Vices · Envy · Peace · Pride · Sedition · Ambition · Boasting · Brawl · Disobedience · Glory · Hypocrisy · Ostentation · Perseverance · Pertinacity · Presumption of Novelties · Presumption of Self · Pusillanimity · Rebellion · Scandal · Schism · Schismatics · Sloth (acedia)

In the manuals

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. I, Diss. III, Pt. IV, Sect. II, Ch. II, Article III. On Certain Other Sins Against Charity Toward Neighbor, n. 569 — III. Contention is discord in words or altercation among several persons, disordered from the fact that truth is attacked or defended in an undue manner. Contention which occurs by attacking truth is a grave sin from its… Read in context →

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

Vol. I, Pt. II, Q. I, Art. 8. The Sins Against P…, Contention, nn. 1355, 1356, 1357, 1358, 1359, 1360, 1361 & 1362 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, On Sins and Virtues, V. On the Capital Vices, n. 322 — What are the daughters of pride and vainglory? "Those vices which of themselves are apt to be ordered to the end of some capital vice are called its daughters." S. Th. 2. 2. q. 132, a. 5. The daughters of pride are three… Read in context →

Vol. III, On the Sacraments in General, IV. On the Subject of the Sacraments, n. 383 — What intention is required in adults for receiving the individual sacraments? - In baptism and order there is required at least a habitual explicit will. The reason is that sacraments of this kind impose grave obligation… Read in context →

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. I, Special Moral Theology, Treatise: On Divine Charity, Fourth Part: On Sins Oppos…, Third Question: On Sins Opposed to Peace, nn. ¶1, 954, 955 & 956 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Tr. I, Disputation XIV: On Discor…, Question II: What sin contention is, and how great, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Sins against Faith — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Concina, Compendium · The Casuist · Spirago — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)