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Faith as necessary for salvation

Necessity of means and of precept; implicit and explicit faith; the truths that must be believed explicitly.

The works themselves ask 3 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

Also asked about as…

can non-believers be saved · must you have faith to be saved · no salvation outside the church (ed.)

In the index as Faith · Mean · Explicit voluntary · Most Holy Trinity · Mystery of Redemption · Things to be believed explicitly · Faith, acts of · Mysteries · Mysteries of faith to be believed by necessity · Mystery of the Incarnation · Necessity · Precept

In the manuals

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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Thomas Slater, S.J. — 2 passages

Vol. I, Bk. V, Pt. I, Chapter I. Necessity of Faith, nn. 2 & 3 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R.

Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. I, Diss. I, Pt. I, Section I. On Necessity of Means, n. 488 — The act of faith (actual faith), as is clear, cannot be necessary except for adults. But a distinction must be made between adults not yet justified and adults justified. Now: I. The act of faith is necessary for salvati… Read in context →

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

John A. McHugh, O.P., and Charles J. Callan, O.P.

Vol. I, Pt. II, Q. I, Art. 1. The Virtue of Faith, The Object of Faith, n. 766 — Faith in the revelation given by God is necessary for salvation (Heb., xi. 6), but in the usual providence of God faith cannot be had or safeguarded without short formulas of its principal doctrines. (a) Faith cannot be … Read in context →

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Jean-Pierre Gury, S.J.; notes by Antonio Ballerini, S.J. — 12 passages

Vol. I, Treatise On Virtues, Ch. I, Art. II, § I. On Things Necessarily to Be Known and Believed by Necessity of Means, nn. 194, 195 & 196 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 23 passages

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. ¶1, 706, 707 & 708 (23 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Summae S. Thomae (Billuart)

Charles-René Billuart, O.P. — 15 passages

Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus III. On the Secunda …, On Faith, On the Internal and Extern…, Whether it is of the necessity of salvation to believe something above natural reason, and what?, nn. 1–15 (15 passages)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Daniele Concina, O.P.

Bk. III, Diss. I, Chapter II — A census of propositions which seem lax, culled from the Casuists, n. IX — IX. "Even after the promulgation of the Gospel has been made, explicit knowledge of the Trinity, or of the mystery of the Incarnation, is not necessary with the necessity of means, but only of precept; and thus salvation… Read in context →

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Gaudentius Bontempi of Brescia, O.F.M. Cap. — 56 passages

Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Question XIV: What must be believed by the necessity of means, nn. 1–56 (56 passages)

Treated under the broader heading Necessity of Faith — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)