God : the author of nature and the supernatural (De Deo creante et elevante) : a dogmatic treatise
Publisher: B. Herder
Published: 1916
Place of publication: St. Louis, MO, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: INTRODUCTION i; title: Part I. Creation Considered as a Divine Act 3; title: Ch. I. The Beginning of the World, or Creation as a Production out of Nothing 4; title: § 1. The Dogma 4; title: Art. 1. Demonstration from Sacred Scripture 4; title: Art. 2. The Heresies of Dualism and Pantheism 20; title: § 2. Explanation of the Dogma 32; title: Art. 1. The Divine Idea of the Cosmos as the Exemplary Cause of Creation 32; title: Art. 2. Creation in its Relation to the Trinity 35; title: Art. 3. Creation as a Free Divine Act 40; title: Art. 4. Creation in Time 49; title: Art. 5. The Incommunicability of God's Creative Power 54; title: Ch. II. The Continued Existence of the Created Universe, or Divine Preservation and Concurrence 61; title: § 1. Divine Preservation 62 § 2. Divine Co-operation or Concurrence 67; title: Ch. III. The Final Cause or End of Creation, and Divine Providence 79; title: § 1. The Final Cause or Object of Creation 80; title: § 2. Divine Providence 91; title: Part II. Creation Passively Considered, or the Created Universe 97; title: Ch. I. Dogmatic Cosmology 98; title: § 1. First and Second Creation 98; title: § 2. The Hexaemeron in its Relation to Science and Exegesis 103; title: Art. 1. The Mosaic Account of the Creation and Physical Science 103; title: Art. 2. The Hexaemeron and Exegesis 117; title: Ch. II. Dogmatic Anthropology 124; title: § 1. The Nature of Man 126; title: Art. 1. The Origin of Man and the Unity of the Human Race 126; title: Art. 2. The Essential Constituents of Man and Their Mutual Relationship 136; title: Art. 3. The Immortality of the Human Soul 151; title: Art. 4. Origin of the Soul 161; title: § 2. The Supernatural in Man 179; title: Art. 1. Nature and the Supernatural 180; title: A. Definition of the Supernatural 180; title: B. The Prerogatives That Constitute the Supernatural Order 190; title: Art. 2. Man's Supernatural Endowment in Paradise 196; title: Art. 3. Various Heresies vs. the Dogmatic Teaching of the Church in Regard to the State of Original Justice 218; title: Art. 4. The Different States of Man, and the State of Pure Nature in Particular 226; title: § 3. Man's Defection from the Supernatural Order, or the Doctrine of Original Sin 232; title: Art. 1. The Sin of Adam Considered as the First Sin, and its Effects on Our Proto-Parents 233; title: Art. 2. The Sin of Adam Considered as Original Sin in the Technical Sense of the Term 238; title: Art. 3. The Nature of Original Sin 259; title: Art. 4. How Original Sin is Transmitted 279; title: Art. 5. The Penalties of Original Sin 286; title: Ch. III. Christian Angelology 308; title: § 1. Existence, Nature, Number, and Hierarchy of the Angels 311; title: Art. 1. Existence and Nature of the Angels 311; title: Art. 2. Number and Hierarchy of the Angels 321; title: § 2. The Angels and the Supernatural Order 325; title: Art. 1. The Supernatural Endowment of the Angels 325; title: Art. 2. The Angels in Their Relation to Men, or the Guardian Angels 330; title: § 3. The Apostasy of a Number of the Angels 340; title: Art. 1. The Fallen Angels or Demons 340; title: Art. 2. The Demons in Their Relation to the Human Race 344; title: Index 351