Indulgences
Subtitle: their origin nature and development
By: Alexius M. Lépicier.
Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tubner & Co.
Published: 1906
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Indulgences -- History
Notes: Includes bibiographical references.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: CHAPTER I; title: DEATH AND THE TREE OF LIFE; title: "They shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices." — Prov. i. 31.; title: THE NATURE OF SIN AND OF GOOD WORKS.; title: 1. Death was introduced into the world by sin 1; title: 2. The twofold guilt which sin imports 4; title: 3. True sorrow for sin, an essential condition for restoration to the grace of God 4; title: 4. Luther's acceptation of the word Penance 7; title: 5. The Scriptural meaning of this word 9; title: 6. The temporal debt is not always remitted through contrition 11; title: 7. The power of satisfaction inherent to good works : it may be applied to others 14; title: 8. A threefold case With regard to satisfaction 16; title: 9. Christ's superabundant merits and satisfaction 19; title: 10. What of these merits, if they are not applied 20; title: 11. The doctrine of the Communion of Saints in the Catholic Church 21; title: 12. Peter de Blois's letter on this subject to the Monks of Chichester 23; title: 13. The Communion of Saints comprehends the Church Militant, Suffering, and Triumphant 24; title: 14. The mystery of suffering 25; title: CHAPTER II; title: MERCY AND FORGIVENESS; title: "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ." — Gal. vi. 2.; title: TRUE NOTION OF AN INDULGENCE.; title: 1. Three ways in which satisfactory merits can be transferred 31; title: 2. First case, if a particular member applies his satisfactions to another : this is no Indulgence 32; title: 3. Second case, if a limited body make over their merits to a particular person : neither is this transfer an Indulgence 34; title: 4. The Church is a political body, a state, and the Bishops only are her true Prelates 35; title: 5. Third case, when this transfer is made out of the treasury of the Church by the first Prelates : this is an Indulgence 38; title: 6. What conditions are required for the validity of an Indulgence : the first, lawful authority in him who grants it 39; title: 7. The second, a just motive for granting the Indulgence : what this motive should be 42; title: 8. The lessons taught by these two conditions 45; title: 9. The third condition — state of grace in the Penitent, and the fulfilment of the works prescribed 46; title: 10. Probable condition — that the faithful should be willing to satisfy the justice of God, as much as they are able 48; title: 11. Indulgences on behalf of the dead 49; title: 12. The Church grants them by way of suffrage only 51; title: 13. Conditions required in order to gain Indulgences for the dead 52; title: 14. What is an Indulgence, and what it is not 54; title: 15. The Scriptural meaning of the word Indulgence 59; title: 16. The Church probably took this word from the ancient Juris-consults 61; title: CHAPTER III; title: THE TWO FOUNTAINS; title: "Therefore, brethren, standfast, and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word or by our Epistle — 2 Thess. ii. 14.; title: INDULGENCES IN THE WRITTEN AND UNWRITTEN WORD OF GOD.; title: 1. The twenty-second article of the Church of England 66; title: 2. Holy Scripture not the only source of faith 67; title: 3. The practice of Indulgences implicitly contained in Holy Writ 68; title: 4. The power of granting Indulgences, a consequence of the Power of the Keys 70; title: 5. Explicit proofs in Holy Scripture in favour of Indulgences : the woman taken in adultery 72; title: 6. St. Paul and the incestuous man of Corinth : inferences from this fact 73; title: 7. Is tradition silent on the matter? 77; title: 8. If the Church erred in granting Indulgences in the Middle Ages, the gates of Hell may be said to have prevailed against her 80; title: 9. The absence of the exercise of a right, no argument against its existence 81; title: 10. A distinction between what is essential and what is merely accidental in an Indulgence 83; title: 11. The notion of development in the discipline of the Church 84; title: 12. Two ways of studying tradition 87; title: 13. Quintus Septimius Florentius Tertullian : his errors 88; title: CHAPTER IV; title: THE SECOND PLANK AFTER SHIPWRECK; title: "Therefore I reprehend myself and do penance in dust and ashes " — Job xlii. 6.; title: THE APOSTOLIC AGE AND THE FIRST CENTURIES OF THE CHURCH.; title: 1. What penalties were inflicted on sin in the first ages of the Church 92; title: 2. Four classes of Penitents. The first class : the weepers 93; title: 3. Second class of Penitents : the hearers 94; title: 4. Third class of Penitents : the kneelers 95; title: 5. Fourth class of Penitents : the standers 96; title: 6. The practice of the Western Church 97; title: 7. St. Fabiola, her public penance 100; title: 8. The Emperor Theodosius the Great and St. Ambrose 104; title: 9. Public Penance not the only one in use in the primitive Church 108; title: 10. When was public penance applied 111; title: 11. Voluntary Penitents 111; title: 12. The reconciliation 112; title: 13. Those to whom reconciliation was denied 115; title: 14. Satisfactory Penance not essentially canonical Penance 117; title: 15. Bishops' power of shortening the different stages of public or canonical Penance, of granting an Indulgence 119; title: 16. Further reasons for granting a relaxation from the canonical Penances 121; title: 17. From the canonical Penances we can judge of the nature and extent of an Indulgence 123; title: CHAPTER V; title: THE LAPSED; title: "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ." — Gal. vi. I.; title: FROM THE SECOND TO THE FOURTH CENTURY.; title: 1. The restoration of God's kingdom and the destruction of idolatry 126; title: 2. The origin of idolatry 128; title: 3. The falseness of idolatry, according to St. Thomas Aquinas and Holy Scripture 130; title: 4. Its extension in the first centuries of the Church 132; title: 5. The book "Octavius" of Minucius Felix 133; title: 6. Idolatry and the times of persecution 135; title: 7. Snares laid by Julian the Apostate for the Christians 136; title: 8. The persecution of Decius 139; title: 9. The defection of Christians from the Church 140; title: 10. Different kinds of lapsed 142; title: 11. Conditions for re-admission into the Church 144; title: 12. The "Libellus Martyrum," or Memorial of the Martyrs 144; title: 13. It was an Indulgence strictly so called 147; title: 14. St. Cyprian, Novatian and Felicissimus 148; title: 15. St. Cyprian's book "De Lapsis" 152; title: 16. SS. Marcellus and Eusebius 155; title: 17. Charity of Christians in favour of the dead 158; title: CHAPTER VI; title: EVOLUTION; title: "So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earthy and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up whilst he knoweth not." — Mark iv. 26, 27.; title: FROM THE FIFTH TO THE ELEVENTH CENTURY.; title: 1. The Church in times of peace 165; title: 2. The penitential discipline subjected to a regular organisation 167; title: 3. Canonical Penances, how inculcated by the Canons of Councils 170; title: 4. False "Penitentials" rejected 172; title: 5. The penitential Canons of the Council of Tribur and others 173; title: 6. The severity of these Penances 174; title: 7. Redemptions and commutations of Penances — what relation they had to Indulgences 177; title: 8. Pilgrimages, especially to Rome 180; title: 9. Often made with the purpose of gaining the Indulgences 182; title: 10. The power of granting Indulgences gradually centred in the person of the Sovereign Pontiff 185; title: 11. Pardons granted by letter 188; title: 12. The Christian Stations 191; title: 13. Their origin 193; title: 14. Their development 195; title: 15. The origin of Processions, of Rogations 195; title: 16. Indulgences attached to the visit of the Stations 197; title: 17. Pious foundations viewed with reference to Indulgences 198; title: CHAPTER VII; title: "DIEU LE VEUT"; title: "Take this holy sword, a gift from God, wherewith thou shalt over-throw the adversaries of my people Israel — 2 Mac. xv. 16.; title: FROM THE ELEVENTH TO THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.; title: 1. A difference between the works of man and the works of God 202; title: 2. The Church a work of God 203; title: 3. The East in the second half of the eleventh century 207; title: 4. Efforts made by the Popes towards the rescue of the Christians 208; title: 5. Urban II. and the first Crusade 210; title: 6. The Indulgence attached to the Crusade 213; title: 7. The second Crusade and St. Bernard 215; title: 8. Indulgences granted for the building of churches 217; title: 9. The origin of the Bulla Cruciatae 220; title: 10. Works of art promoted by the granting of Indulgences 222; title: 11. Indulgences granted for the translation of Relics 224; title: 12. For the dedication of Churches 226; title: 13. Similar Indulgences granted by the Bishops also 231; title: 14. The Bishops apply to the Sovereign Pontiff for Indulgences 233; title: 15. Gradual decline of canonical Penances another reason for granting more copious Indulgences 235; title: 16. The Penance of Henry II 237; title: CHAPTER VIII; title: PILGRIMAGES AND THE GREAT "JOBEL"; title: "In the year of the Jubilee all shall return to their possessions" Lev. xxv. 13.; title: FROM THE THIRTEENTH TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.; title: 1. Continual growth of the Church 241; title: 2. Pilgrimages to Holy Land and to Rome 243; title: 3. Some famous shrines in England 245; title: 4. The "Portiuncula" and the annexed Indulgence 246; title: 5. Indulgences granted for the recitation of vocal prayers 249; title: 6. Sentiment of the faithful, of the Saints 250; title: 7. The great "Jobel" of 1300 252; title: 8. Great crowds flock to Rome 255; title: 9. Giotto and Dante present at it 256; title: 10. The original meaning of the word "Jubilee" 258; title: 11. The Jubilee of Clement VI 260; title: 12. The Jubilee gained without going to Rome 263; title: 13. Subsequent Jubilees 264; title: 14. Further dispensations from going to Rome 267; title: 15. The opening and closing of the Porta Sancta 269; title: 16. The mystic signification of the Porta Sancta 270; title: CHAPTER IX; title: USE AND ABUSE; title: "For what, if some of them have not believed t Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid. But God is true, and every man is a liar." — ROM. iii. 3, 4.; title: A RETROSPECT.; title: 1. Indulgences in their connection with Catholic Dogma 272; title: 2. With the Dogma of Papal Supremacy 274; title: 3. With the Dogma of the Real Presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament 276; title: 4. With the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception of our Blessed Lady 279; title: 5. With the Dogma of Purgatory 281; title: 6. Abuses of Indulgences no proof against their Divine institution 282; title: 7. A threefold charge 283; title: 8. Indulgences granted for alms-deeds 284; title: 9. Have Indulgences ever been a cause of deception to the Faithful 286; title: 10. The non-gaining of an Indulgence fully compensated 289; title: 11. Apocryphal Indulgences 290; title: 12. The Church condemned them 292; title: 13. The errors put forth by some Preachers are corrected by the Church 292; title: 14. She represses the ambition of the "Qusestores" 295; title: 15. The Council of Trent abolishes their office 297; title: 16. The faithful should carefully guard themselves against false Indulgences 298; title: CHAPTER X; title: THE REVOLT; title: "For they have said : . . . Let our strength be the law of justice . . . let us therefore lie in wait for the just, because he is not for our turn, and he is contrary to our doings." — WISD. ii. 11, 12.; title: THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.; title: 1. The Friar of Wittenberg 303; title: 2. The beginning of Martin Luther's defection from the Church of Rome 305; title: 3. The scholastic doctrines in the Catholic Church 307; title: 4. The groundwork of Luther's system 310; title: 5. Indulgences promulgated for the completion of St. Peter's 312; title: 6. Excesses committed by the preachers 312; title: 7. Luther sets himself as an opponent 313; title: 8. Luther's adversaries, Tetzel and Eckius 315; title: 9. The question of Indulgences dependent on that of Penance and free-will 316; title: 10. Behaviour of the Church during the attack 317; title: 11. Luther summoned to the Pope's tribunal: his conferences with Cajetan 319; title: 12. Leo X.'s decree 322; title: 13. Luther turns to Erasmus for support 323; title: 14. Luther's conference with Eckius : he is condemned by the Universities 324; title: 15. The Bull "Exsurge Domine" 325; title: 16. Practical effects of the Reformation with regard to Indulgences 328; title: 17. God's Providence over His Church 329; title: CHAPTER XI; title: LOSS OR GAIN; title: "The wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord" — Rom. vi. 23.; title: INDULGENCES IN THE PRESENT DAY.; title: 1. Origin and office of the Sacred Congregation of Relics and Indulgences 332; title: 2. Its authentic books 334; title: 3. The Jubilee extended to the whole world 336; title: 4. The Jubilee of 1825 337; title: 5. How is it that the Church is now so liberal in granting Indulgences? 340; title: 6. The difficulty of gaining an Indulgence greatly exaggerated 341; title: 7. We are the younger children of the Church 344; title: 8. Her compassion for human weakness and misery 345; title: 9. Good effects of Indulgences : they make us value the Passion of Christ 347; title: 10. They foster the spirit of prayer 348; title: 11. They keep alive the fear of God in the soul 350; title: 12. They promote charity 351; title: 13. The "Heroic Act" 352; title: 14. Its manifold advantages 354; title: 15. Beneficial results of Indulgences 356; title: 16. Bad effects of Protestantism 357; title: 17. The study of history 358; title: 18. Indulgence a claim of human nature 359; title: 19. The basis of domestic and social relations 360; title: 20. The idea of Indulgences instilled in public institutions 362; title: 21. Epilogue 363; title: INDEX 367