A Topic of Moral Theology
The Attainment of the Last End
By what act God is attained: the vision of the intellect and the joy of the will.
The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Beatitude · Heaven · Beatific vision · End · Glory · Happiness · Resurrection · Bain, Alexander · Contemplation of God · End in view · Eternal life · Eudaemonia · Faculties, higher and lower · God · God, tendency to · Goods of earth · Happiness of heaven · Honor due to God’s name · Last End of Man · Life · Light of glory · Mean · Means to end · Nature
In the manuals
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Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. I, Pt. I, Q. I, Art. 1. The Last End of Man, The Attainment of the Last End, n. 21 — Attainment of the Last End. Attainment of the Last End.—God being supersensible, the act by which He is attained cannot be any operation of the senses, but must be an act of the higher powers. Man possesses his Last End through the vision of God, f… Read in context →
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On the Last End …, Question Three: On Formal Beatitude, nn. ¶1, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 & 35 (52 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On the Last End …, Question Five: On the Mode of Obtaining Beatitude, nn. ¶1, 43, 44, 45 & 46 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)
Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law
Pt. I, Ch. II, Section III. Happiness open to man, nn. ¶1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)
The Catechism of the Council of Trent (The Roman Catechism)
Pt. I, Article XII: “Life Everlasting”, nn. ¶1–¶31 (31 passages)
A Brief Text-Book of Moral Philosophy
Chapter I: The End to Which Human Acts are to be Directed, nn. 25, ¶51, 26, 27, ¶54, 28, 29, 30, ¶58, 31, ¶60, ¶61, ¶62, ¶63, ¶64, ¶65, ¶66, 32, ¶68, ¶69, 33, 34, 35, ¶73, ¶74 & ¶75 (26 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Last End of Man (Beatitude) — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)