The Sacraments: The Sacrament of Penance a dogmatic treatise
Publisher: B. Herder
Published: 1917
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: INTRODUCTION i; title: Part I. The Power of the Church to Forgive Sins   5; title: Ch. I. The Catholic Church Has the Power to Forgive Sins 5; title: § 1. Proof from Sacred Scripture 6; title: Art. 1. The Promise 6; title: Art. 2. The Grant 11; title: § 2. Proof from Tradition 21; title: Art. 1. Protestant Errors vs. the Teaching of the Church 21; title: Art. 2. The Teaching of the Fathers 26; title: Art. 3. The Penitential Discipline of the Early Church 34; title: Ch. II. The Church's Power to Forgive Sins is Unlimited, Necessary, and Judicial 49; title: § 1. The Church's Power to Forgive Sins is Unlimited 50; title: Art. 1. Montanism and Novatianism vs. the Teaching of the Church 50; title: Art. 2. Proof from Holy Scripture and Tradition 53; title: § 2. The Church's Power to Forgive Sins is Necessary 58; title: § 3. The Church's Power to Forgive Sins is Judicial 64; title: Part II. Penance as a Sacrament 72; title: Ch. I. Matter and Form 75; title: § 1. The Matter 75; title: § 2. The Form 85; title: Ch. II. Sacramental Effects 101; title: Ch. III. The Minister 119; title: Ch. IV. The Recipient 130; title: Part III. The Three Acts of the Penitent: Contrition, Confession, and Satisfaction 132; title: Ch. I. Contrition 132; title: § 1. Perfect Contrition 134; title: Art. 1. Perfect Contrition Defined 134; title: Art. 2. Perfect Contrition as a Means of Justification 139; title: Art. 3. Perfect Contrition not a Requisite of Sacramental Absolution 145; title: § 2. Imperfect Contrition, or Attrition 151; title: Art. 1. Attrition Defined 151; title: Art. 2. Imperfect Contrition Sufficient for the Validity of Penance 157; title: Art. 3. Attritionism vs. Contritionism 170; title: Ch. II. Confession 181; title: § 1. The Divine Institution and Necessity of Confession Proved from Sacred Scripture 185; title: § 2. The Divine Institution and Necessity of Confession Proved from Tradition 192; title: Art. 1. Heretical Errors vs. the Teaching of the Church 192; title: Art. 2. The Argument from Prescription  195; title: Art. 3. The Patristic Argument 206; title: Ch. III. Satisfaction 217; title: § 1. Sacramental Satisfaction, or Penance for Sins Confessed 217; title: § 2. The Remission of Temporal Punishments Outside of the Sacrament of Penance, or the Catholic Doctrine of Indulgences 232; title: Art. 1. An Indulgence Defined 233; title: Art. 2. The Power of the Church to Grant Indulgences 240; title: Art. 3. Indulgences for the Dead 259; title: Index 265