A Topic of Moral Theology
The Obligation of Furnishing Military Service
The Obligation of Furnishing Military Service, as treated in Noldin (Question Third. On Obligations in Civil Society).
The works themselves ask 5 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Military law · Soldiers · War · Conscription · Defrauding · Distributive justice · Fraud · Military service · Restitution · Civil law · Clerics · Conscription of soldiers · Deserter · Deserter from military service · Physician · Rulers
In the manuals
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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Part Second. On the Precep…, Book Fourth. On the Fourth…, Question Third. On Obligat…, Article Fifth. On the Obligation of Furnishing Military Service, nn. 319, 320, 321 & 322 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Cases of Conscience, Proposed by Cardinal de Lugo, by Fr. Beniamino Elbel, by Fr. Ioannes Petrus Gury and by Other Authors, and Resolved (Casus conscientiae)
19. On the Law of Taxes and Military Service, nn. 1 & 2 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
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), Third Commentary: On the F…, XVII. On the Obligation of Performing Military Service, nn. 208, 209, 210, 211, 212 & 213 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, Pt. I, Tr. III, Ch. III, Art. IX, § 2. On the civil law which commands military service to be performed, nn. 295, 296, 297, 298, 299 & 300 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Fourth Part: On Distributi…, Question Three: On Justice…, Article II: On the Obligation of Performing Military Service, nn. 632, 633 & 634 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Legal Justice: Taxes, Military Service, Social Laws — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Slater, Back to Morality — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)