A Topic of Moral Theology
The Conformity of the Human Will with the Divine Will
Resignation to the will of God, and the merit of conforming one's own will to His.
The works themselves ask 5 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
accepting god's will · conforming my will to god's will · resignation to god's will (ed.)
In the index as EXAMPLE: we should profit by the good example and give it to others · CROSSES, inevitable in this life, and are for our own good · Conformity · DEATH: one dies more confidently in religion · DESOLATION, spiritual, how to behave when afflicted therewith · Morality of human acts · PURGATORY, pains that must be endured there · SICKNESS, patience and resignation · WILL, self-will, necessity of being detached from it
In the manuals
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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. II, Diss. II, Pt. II, Sect. I, Scholion. On the Conformity of the Human Will with the Divine Will, n. 245 — I. These things are to be distinguished: 1. the material thing willed, i.e., the thing itself willed; 2. the formal thing willed, i.e., the reason for willing, which is divided into proximate and ultimate. The proximate … Read in context →
Summa Summae S. Thomae (Billuart)
Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus II. On the Prima Sec…, On Human Acts, On Human Acts in Their Mor…, Whether, and how, the human will, to be good, must be conformed to the divine will?, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
The True Spouse of Jesus Christ
Chapter XIV: Resignation to the Will of God, nn. ¶1869, ¶1870, ¶1871, ¶1875, ¶1878, ¶1879, ¶1885, ¶1886, ¶1891, ¶1896, ¶1897, ¶1901, ¶1905, ¶1909, ¶1910, ¶1916, ¶1917, ¶1918, ¶1919, ¶1920, ¶1921, ¶1922, ¶1923, ¶1928, ¶1929, ¶1933, ¶1935, ¶1937, ¶1938, ¶1939, ¶1944, ¶1947, ¶1948, ¶1949, ¶1952, ¶1953, ¶1954 & ¶1956 (38 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Merit — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Commentaries on Human Acts · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Spirago · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)