Theology Of The Sacraments
Subtitle: A Study In Positive Theology
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. and Freiburg (Baden) B. Herder
Published: 1910
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: CHAPTER I; title: A SACRAMENT DEFINED I; title: § I. Elaboration of the Concept of Efficacious Symbolism with regard to Baptism and the Eucharist, by writers prior to St. Augustine I; title: § II. The Augustinian Definition of a Sacrament 22; title: § III. The Definition of a Sacrament according to Mediaeval writers 34; title: § IV. The definition of a Sacrament according to the Theologians subsequent to the Council of Trent 47; title: CHAPTER II; title: THE COMPOSITION OF THE SACRAMENTAL RITES 51; title: § I. The Theory of a Sacramental Sign before St. Augustine 53; title: § II. The Augustinian Theory of the Sacramental Sign 59 § III. The Composition of the Sacraments during the 12th. Century — Peter Lombard 66; title: § IV. The Conception of Matter and Form of a Sacrament in the 13th. Century 72; title: § V. The Conception of Matter and Form, after the 13th. Century 78; title: CHAPTER III; title: THE EFFICACY OF THE SACRAMENTS 93; title: § I. The Definition of the Council of Trent 93; title: § II. The Efficacy of the Sacraments at the Beginning of the Church 96; title: § III. The Earliest Speculations concerning the Efficacy of the Sacraments — Tertullian and Origen 108; title: § IV. The Part of the Minister and that of the Subject in the Efficacy of the Sacraments 116; title: a. — The Baptismal Controversy — St Cyprian and Pope St. Stephen 117; title: b. — Donatism — St. Optatus and St Augustine 130; title: § V. The Efficacy of the Sacraments in the Early Part of the Middle Ages — Reordinations — The Sacraments Administered by those that are Excommunicated — The Heresies of the 12th. Century 156; title: § VI. The Formula Ex Opere Operato. The Problem of the Causality of the Sacraments during the 13th. Century 162; title: § VII. The Protestant Sacramental System and the Definitions of the Council of Trent 177; title: § VIII. The Actual Controversy about the Causality of the Sacraments 184; title: § IX. Grace Produced by the Sacraments 196; title: CHAPTER IV; title: THE SACRAMENTAL CHARACTER 204; title: § I. The Teaching of the Church 204; title: § II. From the Beginning of the Church to St. Augustine — Three Sacraments Not Repeated — The Doctrine of the Sphragis 208; title: § III. The Augustinian Doctrine 226; title: § IV. The Silence of the Early Middle Ages concerning the Sacramental Character — The complete development of the Dogma at the beginning of the 13th. Century 234; title: § V. The Nature of the Sacramental Character — Alexander of Hales and St. Thomas — Duns Scotus and Durandus of St. Pourçain 245; title: CHAPTER V; title: THE NUMBER OF THE SACRAMENTS 256; title: § I. The Teaching of the Church 256; title: § II. The Number of the Sacraments in the Patristic Period 259; title: § III. The Attempts of the Early Middle Ages 263; title: § IV. The Number of the Sacraments in the Twelfth Century — Peter Lombard 268; title: § V. The Fitness of the Number of the Sacraments — The Interventions of the Church 277; title: § VI. The Protestant Heresy and the Orthodox Greek Church 289; title: CHAPTER VI; title: THE DIVINE INSTITUTION OF THE SACRAMENTS 295; title: § I. The Definition of the Council of Trent, and the Theological Hypotheses on the Manner of the Divine Institution of the Sacraments — Newman's Hypothesis 295; title: § II. The Divine Institution of the Sacraments According to Scripture 302; title: § III. The Dogma of the Divine Institution according to the Fathers — The Thesis of Liberal Protestantism on the Origin of the Sacraments 316; title: § IV. The Dogma of the Divine Institution According to the Theologians 334; title: a. — The Fact of the Divine Institution of the Seven Sacraments is Affirmed 334; title: b. — The Manner of the Divine Institution of the Sacraments 336; title: CHAPTER VII; title: THE INTENTION OF THE MINISTER AND THE RECIPIENT 345; title: § I. Doctrine of the Church 346; title: § II. From the Beginning up to St. Augustine, the Minister of the Sacrament is considered as the Representative of Christ or His Church — The Ordinations imposed by force in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries 350; title: § III. The First Speculations of the Intention of the Minister and that of the Recipient of the Sacrament — St. Augustine 361; title: § IV. The Dogma of the Intention in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 371; title: § V. The Controversy on the Purely Exterior Intention — Ambrose Catharinus, O. P. 385; title: § VI. The Qualities Required in the Intention of Minister and of Subject 392; title: Conclusion 396; title: Index 407