A Topic of Moral Theology
The Truths Necessarily to Be Believed
Which truths must be believed explicitly, and which it suffices to believe implicitly.
The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Christ · Faith · God · Heaven · Passion of Christ · Duty · Creeds · Prophecies of Conception and Nativity of Christ · Virtue of faith · Church · Creation · Grace gratuitously granted · Hell · Last things · Mean · Resurrection of the body · Types of Christ’s Conception and Nativity · Actual faith · Ascension of Christ · Death · Explicit voluntary · Glory · Holiness · Holy Ghost
In the manuals
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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Part First. On the Precept…, Book First. On the Precept…, Question Second. On the Ne…, Article Second. On the Truths Necessarily to Be Believed, nn. 9, 10, 11 & 12 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. I, Pt. II, Q. I, Art. 1. The Virtue of Faith, The Object of Faith, nn. 763, 764, 765 & 767–781 (18 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels
Vol. II, First Book: On the Theolog…, Tr. I, Chapter I: What Things Are to Be Believed, nn. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, Pt. I, Tract VII. On theological …, Ch. II, Art. I, § 2. On the truths necessarily to be believed, nn. ¶77 & 499 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, Special Moral Theology, Treatise: On Divine Faith, First Part: On the Object …, Question Two: On the Mater…, Article I: On the Material Object in Itself, nn. ¶1, 671, 672, 673, 674, 675 & 676 (29 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, Special Moral Theology, Treatise: On Divine Faith, Second Part: On the Act of…, Ch. I, Question Three: On the Necessity of Faith, nn. ¶1, 706, 707 & 708 (23 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. I, Tr. V, Ch. I, Article II. On the Material Object of Faith, n. 155 — The material object of faith, concerning which alone we treat here, is that which we believe by divine and Catholic faith, or, as is clear from canon 1323, § 1, all those things which are contained in the written or hand… Read in context →
Summa Summae S. Thomae (Billuart)
Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus III. On the Secunda …, On Faith, On the Internal and Extern…, Whether it is of the necessity of salvation to believe something above natural reason, and what?, nn. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 & 26 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Question VIII: Whether the things to be believed are rightly arranged in articles, nn. 1–24 (24 passages)
Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Question IX: Whether the articles of faith have grown over the course of time, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Question XIV: What must be believed by the necessity of means, nn. 1–56 (56 passages)
Tr. I, Disputation I: On Faith, Question XV: What things are to be believed by the necessity of precept, nn. 1–32 (32 passages)
Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium
Bk. III, Diss. I, Chapter IV — On the necessity of the things to be believed, n. XI — XI. Implicitly, moreover, the Faithful must believe all the things which God has revealed in the holy Scriptures and in the word handed down, and which the catholic Church proposes to be believed.Read in context →
The Catechism of the Council of Trent (The Roman Catechism)
Pt. I, Faith and the Creed, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7 & ¶8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
Pt. I, Art. I, Creator of Heaven and Earth”, nn. ¶1–¶51 (51 passages)
Pt. I, Art. II, His Only Son, Our Lord”, nn. ¶1–¶29 (29 passages)
Pt. I, Art. III, Born of the Virgin Mary”, nn. ¶1–¶27 (27 passages)
Pt. I, Art. IV, Was Crucified, Dead, and Buried”, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3 & ¶5–¶39 (38 passages — hover a number to read it)
Pt. I, Article V: “He Descended into Hell, the Third Day He Rose Again from the Dead”, nn. ¶1–¶37 (37 passages)
Pt. I, Art. VI, Sitteth at the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty”, nn. ¶1–¶25 (25 passages)
Pt. I, Article VII: “From Thence He Shall Come to Judge the Living and the Dead”, nn. ¶1–¶27 (27 passages)
Pt. I, Article VIII: “I Believe in the Holy Ghost”, nn. ¶1–¶31 (31 passages)
Pt. I, Article IX: “I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church; the Communion of Saints”, nn. ¶1–¶66 (66 passages)
Pt. I, Article X: “The Forgiveness of Sins”, nn. ¶1–¶21 (21 passages)
Pt. I, Article XI: “The Resurrection of the Body”, nn. ¶1–¶46 (46 passages)
Pt. I, Article XII: “Life Everlasting”, nn. ¶1–¶31 (31 passages)
Treated under the broader heading Necessity of Faith — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)