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Informationen zum Autor By Bernard Lonergan Edited by Robert M. Doran and H. Daniel MonsourTranslated by Michael G. Shields Klappentext Early Latin Theology presents seven of Bernard Lonergan's most important early theological works in English translation and the original Latin on facing pages under one cover for the first time. Zusammenfassung Early Latin Theology presents seven of Bernard Lonergan's most important early theological works in English translation and the original Latin on facing pages under one cover for the first time. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editors’ Preface, Robert M. Doran ENGLISH TRANSLATION Part 1: The Notion of Sacrifice Introduction to ‘The Notion of Sacrifice,’ michael g. shields 1 The Definition of Sacrifice 2 Justification of This Definition 3 The Propriety of Symbols 4 First Application of the Definition 5 A Second Application of the Definition 6 The Causes of Sacrifice 7 The Difference between the Sacrifice of the Cross and the Mass 8 The Value of This Inquiry Part 2: The Supernatural Order From the 1973 Introduction to ‘De ente supernaturali,’ Regis Edition, frederick e. crowe [Introduction] Thesis 1: There exists a created communication of the divine nature, which is a created, proportionate, and remote principle whereby there are operations in creatures through which they attain God as he is in himself. Thesis 2: This created communication of the divine nature exceeds the proportion not only of human nature but also of any finite substance, and thus is absolutely supernatural. Thesis 3: Acts, not only of the theological virtues but of other virtues as well, inasmuch as they are elicited in the rational part of a person and in accordance with one’s Christian duty, are specified by a supernatural formal object, and therefore are absolutely supernatural as to their substance and are so by reason of their formal object. Excursus 1: Degrees among the supernatural acts themselves Excursus 2: A note on purely entitative supernaturality Thesis 4: Potency to the absolutely supernatural is obediential. Excursus 1: On the natural desire to see God through his essence Excursus 2: Supernatural acts as vital acts Excursus 3: Divine concurrence Excursus 4: The efficacy of divine concurrence Thesis 5: Interior actual grace essentially consists in vital, principal, and supernatural second acts of the intellect and the will. Part 3: God’s Knowledge and Will From the 1973 Introduction to ‘De scientia atque voluntate Dei,’ Regis Edition, frederick e. crowe 1 The Aim of This Treatise 2 The Nature of Metaphysical Analysis 3 The Comparison between Eternal and Temporal Being 4 Immanent Contingent Operation 5 Action and Passion 6 Necessary and Contingent Being 7 Contingent Future Realities 8 Divine Transcendence 9 Principles of Priority and Simultaneity 10 God’s Knowledge 11 The Various Roots of Middle Knowledge 12 Order 13 The Meaning of Good and End 14 Evil 15 God’s Will 16 God’s Love 17 Efficient Causality 18 God’s Action 19 Other Opinions about God’s Action 20 Can God Be Accountable for the Formal Element of Sin? 21 God’s Antecedent Will 22 Other Conceptions of God’s Antecedent Will 23 Why God Allows Culpable Evil 24 Conceptual Designations in God (Signa Rationis) 25 Predestination and Reprobation 26 Objections 27 A Brief Summary of Principles Part 4: Analysis of Faith From the 1973 Introduction to ‘Analysis Fidei,’ Regis Edition, frederick e. crowe 1 The Logical Process 2 The Psychological Process 3 The Reflective Act of Understand...
