Divine faith
By: Peter Finlay.
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
Published: 1917
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Faith.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: LECTURE I.; title: Nature of Act of Divine Faith.; title: The Deposit of Faith —  Meanings of "Faith" — Protestant theory —    Modernism  —  Catholic doctrine, in Trent, the Vatican, in New  Testament, and in life of the Church  —  An intellectual act pages 1-18; title: LECTURE II.; title: Divine Faith: its Motive.; title: Truths immediately and mediately evident  —  Truths received on testimony  —  Faith an assent because of testimony ; Divine Faith because  of God's testimony  —  Vatican definition  —  Teaching of Scripture  —   No other testimony sufficient  —  Authority of Divine testimony : how  constituted —  How brought home to us  —  God testifies now —  His  testimony grows clearer with the centuries  pages 19-35; title: LECTURE III.; title: Divine Faith : its Subject-matter.; title: Not private revelations  —  No public revelation since Apostolic times  —   Formal and virtual revelation ; explicit and implicit  —  Formal revelation, even implicit, constitutes Deposit of Faith  —  Not so virtual  —   Canon of Scripture; Five Propositions of Jansenius  —  Dogmatic  Fact —  Deposit of Faith  —  Religious opinions commonly received, but  not binding pages 36-54; title: LECTURE IV.; title: Private Revelations.; title: God may make them —  No part of Divine Deposit —  Cannot be believed of  Divine and Catholic Faith  —  Not declared authentic by the Church  —   When they ought or may be believed of Divine Faith —  It may be  certain they come from God  —  Danger of delusion  —  But, if certainly  from God, may be believed by Divine Faith; and without intervention of the Church  —  Who are bound to believe them?  —  Our  religion not dependent on them  —  We generally not concerned with  them  —  Nor called on to pass judgment on them  —  Wise attitude of  mind towards them pages 55-74; title: LECTURE V.; title: Divine Faith: its Reasonableness.; title: Reasonable, if certain that God has revealed the Divine Deposit  —  That  Deposit contained in Scripture and Divine tradition  —  Certainty  required, not evidence  —  What moral certainty is  —  Doctrines of  Deposit certainly revealed  —  Creed of Pope Pius IV.  —  Papal  Supremacy and Real Presence in Scripture and tradition  —  The  Catholic Church and the Deposit  —  The living, infallible teacher  —   Certainty of uneducated Catholics  —  Can Faith become unreasonable?   Teaching of Vatican Council pages 75-94; title: LECTURE VI.; title: Our Freedom in an Act of Faith.; title: Not ethical or moral freedom  —  Freedom an attribute of will : in what  sense to be found in acts of intellect  —  A wish to believe not alone  sufficient for act of Divine Faith  —  Freedom in considering arguments for revealed truth —  Freedom in the assent of Faith itself —   Evident revelation: the Blessed Virgin, the Apostles, St. Paul  —   Not given to the Church at large  —  Trent and the Vatican on  freedom of act of Faith  —  The New Testament  —  Christ did not force  His hearers to believe  —  Men, even the most educated, still free  —   Only evident truth compels assent; and Catholic truth, though  certain, not evident pages 95-109; title: LECTURE VII.; title: The Sin of Unbelief.; title: Moral obligation to believe  —  Physical and moral freedom  —  Case of children and of those wholly or partly ignorant of revelation  —  Those who  reject or refuse assent to truth, when certain God has revealed it  —   Immoral to reject truth, when recognised  —  God claims assent, when  He reveals  —  Condition of those who doubt: duty of inquiry  —  Sinfulness of unbelief pages 110-126; title: LECTURE VIII.; title: Condition of Honest Unbelievers.; title: Imperfectly instructed Catholics  —  Total unbelievers  —  Believers in portion  of the Deposit : Greek and Russian Church  —  Grounds for anxiety :  Unitarians ; heresy ; private judgment  —  Insecurity of Faith without  the visible Catholic Church  —  Other grave disadvantages: membership of Christ's mystical body, Communion of Saints, standards of  holiness, devotion to Our Lady, Sacraments and sacrifice  —  What a  convert to Catholicism gains pages 127-145; title: LECTURE IX.; title: The Wish to Believe.; title: Belief an intellectual act ; connected in Holy Scripture with affections  and will —  Inevident assents: will's part in them  —  Truths of Faith  inevident: will determines assent  —  Will to consider arguments for  belief —  Hindrances to belief : prejudice, pride, a sinful life. pages 146-162; title: LECTURE X.; title: Certainty of Divine Faith.; title: Certainty: what it is  —  Degrees of firmness in our assents, even in  religious assents  —  Assent of Faith excludes deliberate doubt  —   Certainty of Faith in New Testament; in Martyrs ; in Church definitions  —  Certainty reasonable, obligatory  —  May be greater than "motives of credibility warrant" pages 163-179; title: LECTURE XI.; title: The Faith of the Multitude.; title: Knowledge of revealed religion among the Faithful; frequently underestimated  —  Necessary articles of explicit belief few  —  Preaching of the  Apostles : St. Paul to the Hebrews  —  Implicit belief of Catholics  —   The pagan world  —  Man's right to heaven  —  None excluded from it  for unbelief alone  —  Faith improperly so called  —  Miraculous teaching  —  Dying mercies pages 180-199; title: LECTURE XII.; title: Faith and Reason.; title: Does Faith shackle reason?   —  Mediaeval Universities  —  Louvain  —  National  University of Ireland  —  Truth cannot contradict truth  —  Sources of  apparent contradiction  —  Fifth Council of Lateran; Pius IX; the  Vatican Council  —  Case of Galileo  —  Darwinism  —  Catholic attitude in  cases of apparent contradiction  —  Submission of intellect to Faith  reasonable  —  Intellectual development and moral and religious truth   —  Faith of use to profane sciences  —  Authority in earthly knowledge   — Is thought free?  —  All truth limits freedom of thought —  Office of  reason in religion pages 200-218; title: LECTURE XIII.; title: Developments in Faith.; title: St. Vincent of Lerins' Rule of Faith  —  Protestant objection : lies against  early Church  —  Progressive revelation in Old Testament  —  No new  public revelation in post Apostolic times  —  Teaching of New Testament and of tradition  —  Usage of Councils —  Pius IX, Vatican, Pius X  and Modernism  —  Revelation often obscure and complex  —  Not perhaps to Apostles ; but to us and others  —  To be realised gradually  —    Divine revelation lives and grows; but not by accretions  —  The  Immaculate Conception pages 219-239; title: Index pages 241-243