A Topic of Moral Theology
The Coercive Power of the Church
Whether and how far the Church may coerce, and the question of the right of the sword — with the force of the declarations of Pius IX in Quanta cura and the Syllabus.
The works themselves ask 7 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Baptism · Coercion · Good faith · Infidels · Sovereign, the
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. I, Disputation II: On Unbelief, Question IV: Whether unbelievers can be compelled to embrace our faith, when it has been sufficiently set forth, nn. 1–16 (16 passages)
Tr. I, Disputation II: On Unbelief, Question V: Whether unbaptized unbelievers can be compelled to abandon errors or rites contrary to natural reason, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tr. I, Disputation III: On Heresy, Question VII: Whether the Church can compel heretics to receive the Catholic faith, nn. 1–23 (23 passages)
Tr. I, Disputation III: On Heresy, Question XII: On the temporal punishments of heretics, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tolerance
Pt. II, First Section: Ecclesiasti…, Excursus on the Coercive Power of the Church, and Especially on the Right of the Sword, nn. ¶229, ¶230, ¶231, ¶232, ¶233, ¶234, ¶235, ¶236, ¶237, ¶238, ¶239, ¶240, ¶244, ¶245, ¶401, ¶403, ¶404 & ¶405 (18 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vermeersch, Tolerance, Third Part: Corollaries an…, First Section: Doctrinal Questions, nn. ¶1071, ¶1072, ¶1073, ¶1074, ¶1075, ¶1076, ¶1077, ¶1078, ¶1079, ¶1080, ¶1081, ¶1084, ¶1086, ¶1087, ¶1088, ¶1090, ¶1092, ¶1094, ¶1095, ¶1096 & ¶1097 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Duties of Ecclesiastical and Civil Rulers and their Subjects — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Tanquerey · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)