A Topic of Moral Theology

The History of Moral Theology

How the science itself grew: the Fathers and the penitential books, the Schoolmen and the Summa, the casuists and the manuals that followed Trent.

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In the index as Theology · Definition of moral theology · Moral theology · Dispensation (Dispensatio) · Age (Aetas) · Bishop (Episcopus) · Historical notes concerning moral theology · History of moral theology · Privileged Altar (Altare privilegiatum) · Vicar General (Vicarius Generalis) · Virtues · Act · Alms (Eleemosyna) · Antonius · Aquinas and morals · Ascetical theology · Bell (Campana) · Caramuel · Confraternity (Confraternitas) · Disparity of Cult (Cultus disparitas) · Equiprobabilism · Ethics · Genet · Imputability of the human act

In the manuals

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

Vol. I, Introduction, nn. 15 & 16 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Preliminary Notices, n. 2 — What have been the vicissitudes of Moral Theology? - There have been various vicissitudes of Moral Theology, both as regards its didactic development and as regards the development of the general rule of morals in doubtf… Read in context →

Commentaries on the Nature of Moral Theology, on Conscience and Probabilism, on the Fourth Precept, and on the Sixth and Ninth Precepts of the Decalogue (Commentarii)

Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910), First Commentary: On the Nature of Moral Theology, n. 52 — 52. Finally, as regards the various vicissitudes of Moral Theology: in the first centuries of the Church down to the thirteenth century, it is contained in many writings concerning the right institution of morals and the… Read in context →

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Vol. II, Fundamental Moral Theology…, Prolegomena to Moral Theology, n. 13 — § III. Brief Survey of the History of Moral Theology. 13. In order that the aforesaid sources, especially the works of the Fathers and theologians, may be inspected more deeply, and that the method to be followed in Moral Theology may be better understood, it will not be be… Read in context →

A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)

Vol. I, Its Subject, Norm, and Object, Introduction, Chapter IX: History and Literature of Moral Theology, nn. ¶1 & ¶2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels

Vol. I, Prooemium, Article V: Historical Notes on Moral Theology, nn. 10–24 (15 passages)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. I, General Moral Theology, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (96 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. II, Appendix. Excursus: On the Systems of Moralists concerning Solving Doubt of Conscience, nn. ¶1–¶45 (45 passages)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Vol. I, Brief Catalogue Of Authors Who Have Written On Moral Theology, nn. Preliminary Note, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y & Z (25 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Introduction To Moral Theo…, Chapter IV. On The History Of Moral Theology, n. ¶24 — It is to be regretted that in schools the history of Moral Theology is not treated equally with the history of Dogmas and the history of Philosophy. For knowledge of history would certainly produce a more perfect knowled… Read in context →

Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae

Vol. I, Preface to This New Edition, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6 & ¶7 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Preface to the First Edition, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9 & ¶10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Introduction to Moral Theo…, § 4. On the History and Sources of Moral Theology, nn. ¶6 & ¶7 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium

Vol. I, The Latest Approbations, nn. ¶1–¶50, ¶51 & ¶52 (52 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Apologetic Preface of the Fourth Edition, nn. ¶1–¶43 (43 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instructions Pertaining to Moral Matters, n. ¶1 — DECREES, DECLARATIONS, AND INSTRUCTIONS OF THE SUPREME PONTIFFS, COUNCILS, AND SACRED CONGREGATIONS, PERTAINING TO THE MORAL MATTER.. Read in context →

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of Condemned Propositions, n. ¶1 — I. CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES OF PROPOSITIONS CONDEMNED IN THE MATTER OF MORALS, FROM THE YEAR 1418 AGAINST JOHN WICLEF, TO THE YEAR 1864 AGAINST THE MORE RECENT ERRORS.. Read in context →

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, A. Articles of John Wiclef…, Session 45, in the year 1418, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7 & ¶8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, B. Articles of John Hus, condemned as above, n. ¶1 — 16. The immediate division of human works is that they are either virtuous or vicious; because if a man is vicious and does anything, then he acts viciously; and if he is virtuous and does anything, then he acts virtuous… Read in context →

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, C. Propositions of Master Peter of Osma, condemned in the Congregation of Complutum, and afterward by Sixtus IV, in the year 1479, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6 & ¶7 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, D. Errors of Martin Luther…, May 16, 1520, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10, ¶11 & ¶12 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, E. Propositions of Michael…, October 1, 1567; also by Gregory XIII…, January 29, 1579; and by Urban VIII, b…, March 6, 1641, nn. ¶1–¶33 (33 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, F. Five propositions of Co…, May 31, 1653; also by Alexander VI…, October 16, 1665, then by the constitu…, February 15, 1664, in which he issued t…, July 16, 1705, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5 & ¶6 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, G. Forty-five propositions…, Sanctissimus Dominus noste…, September 24, 1665, and March 18, 1666, nn. ¶1–¶49 (49 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, H. Sixty-five propositions…, Sanctissimus Dominus noste…, March 2, 1679, nn. ¶1–¶68, ¶69 & ¶70 (70 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, I. Sixty-eight proposition…, November 20, 1687, nn. ¶1–¶69 (69 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, J. Two propositions condem…, August 24, 1690, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3 & ¶4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, K. Thirty-one propositions…, December 7, 1690, nn. ¶1–¶32 (32 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, L. Twenty-three propositio…, March 12, 1699, nn. ¶1–¶24 (24 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, M. Propositions of Paschas…, September 8, 1713, nn. ¶1–¶28 (28 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, N. Five propositions conce…, November 10, 1752, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5 & ¶6 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, O. Propositions of the Dio…, August 28, 1794, nn. ¶1–¶29 (29 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, P. Syllabus Embracing the …, § I, Naturalism, and Absolute Rationalism, nn. ¶1–¶14 (14 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, P. Syllabus Embracing the …, § II: Moderate Rationalism, nn. ¶1–¶15 (15 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, P. Syllabus Embracing the …, § III, Latitudinarianism, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7 & ¶8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, P. Syllabus Embracing the …, § IV, Communism, Secret Societies, Biblical Societies, Clerico-liberal Societies, n. ¶1 — Pests of this kind are frequently reproved, and in most grave formulas of words, in the encyclical letter Qui pluribus, November 9, 1846; in the Alloc. Quibus quantisque, April 20, 1849; in the encyclical letter Noscitis… Read in context →

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, P. Syllabus Embracing the …, § V: Errors Concerning the Church and Her Rights, nn. ¶1–¶40 (40 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, P. Syllabus Embracing the …, § VI: Errors Concerning Civil Society, Considered Both in Itself and in Its Relations to the Church, nn. ¶1–¶34 (34 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, P. Syllabus Embracing the …, § VII: Errors Concerning Natural and Christian Ethics, nn. ¶1–¶18 (18 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, P. Syllabus Embracing the …, § VIII: Errors Concerning Christian Marriage, nn. ¶1–¶21 (21 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, P. Syllabus Embracing the …, § IX: Errors Concerning the Civil Principate of the Roman Pontiff, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4 & ¶5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, P. Syllabus Embracing the …, § X: Errors Which Are Referred to Modern Liberalism, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7 & ¶8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, I. Chronological Series of…, Addenda: From the Encyclic…, Quanta cura, nn. ¶1–¶14 (14 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, II. Responses and Declarations, n. ¶1 — II. Responses of the Holy See to Various Moral Questions.. Read in context →

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, II. Responses and Declarat…, Q. Response of the S. C. of the Inquisition concerning whether a heretical minister is to be called for sick heretics, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5 & ¶6 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, II. Responses and Declarat…, R. Encyclical Letter of the Holy Roman Inquisition to all Bishops against the abuses of Magnetism, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4 & ¶5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, II. Responses and Declarat…, S. Responses Concerning Fasting and Abstinence from Meats, nn. ¶1–¶25 (25 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, II. Responses and Declarat…, T. Decrees Concerning Profit Received from Money Given as a Loan, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4 & ¶5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, II. Responses and Declarat…, U. Instruction of the S. Congregation de Propaganda Fide on Bination, nn. ¶1–¶24 (24 passages)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, II. Responses and Declarat…, V. On Confession Sacrament…, If They Are Converted, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8 & ¶9 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, II. Responses and Declarat…, X. Declarations Concerning Soliciting Confessors, nn. ¶1, ¶2 & ¶3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, II. Responses and Declarat…, V. Instruction Published by Order of the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide on Marriages, nn. ¶1, ¶2 & ¶3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, Decrees, Declarations, and Instruct…, III. Faculties, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5 & ¶6 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Chapter X — On the authority of the Supreme Pontiffs, of the holy Fathers, and of the Theologians, both Scholastic and Moralist, nn. I–XV (15 passages)

Chapter XI — Certain objections are dissolved, and certain admonitions are assigned, nn. I–XIV (14 passages)

Bk. II, Diss. II, Chapter IX — By the authority of the Theologians Probabilism is condemned, nn. I–XIX (19 passages)

Questions of Moral Theology

Slater, Questions, A Forgotten Theologian and His Theory of Morals, nn. ¶898, ¶899, ¶900, ¶901, ¶902, ¶903, ¶904, ¶906, ¶907, ¶909, ¶910, ¶911, ¶912, ¶913, ¶914, ¶915, ¶916, ¶917, ¶919, ¶920, ¶922, ¶923, ¶925, ¶926, ¶927, ¶928, ¶930, ¶931, ¶932, ¶933 & ¶934 (31 passages — hover a number to read it)

A Short History of Moral Theology

Slater, Short History, Introduction, nn. ¶20, ¶21, ¶22, ¶23, ¶24, ¶25 & ¶26 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Slater, Short History, A Manual of Moral Theology, nn. ¶104, ¶105, ¶106, ¶107 & ¶108 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Back to Morality

Chapter IX: The Moral Teaching of St Thomas Aquinas, nn. ¶127, ¶128 & ¶129 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Apology for the Doctrine of the Jesuits

Daniel, Apology for the Jesuits, Letter from a Doctor of ***, nn. ¶2, ¶3 & ¶4 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Daniel, Apology for the Jesuits, Reply to the Preceding Letter, n. ¶5 — I have greatly appreciated, Sir, the counsel you gave me, and I have followed it both in the substance of the work and in its manner. I have circulated some manuscript copies of it, and I send you one. Although I compose… Read in context →

Daniel, Apology for the Jesuits, Apology for the Doctrine of the Jesuits, nn. ¶6–¶26 (21 passages)

Daniel, Apology for the Jesuits, Conduct Observed by the Jesuits in Matters of Moral Doctrine, nn. ¶27–¶46 (20 passages)

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Vol. II, Appendix. A Short History …, Section I. The Patristic Period, nn. 1–20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 & 42 (40 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. II, Appendix. A Short History …, Section II. The Scholastic Period, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. II, Appendix. A Short History …, Section III. The Modern Period, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading What Moral Theology Is — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Slater, Cases I · Slater, Foundation — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)