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We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Ludwig Ott, Bio-note, & Outline of "Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma"


Ott, Ludwig. Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (trans., Patrick Lynch, Ph.D.).  Rockford, IL: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1960.  It is available at: http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Catholic-Dogma-Dr-Ludwig/dp/0895550091/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377312427&sr=8-1&keywords=ludwig+ott+fundamentals+of+catholic+dogma

Nihil Obstat: Jeremiah O’Sullivan; Imprimatur:  +Cornelius on 7 Oct 1954.

Three things: (1) a quick Wiki-bio, (2) a reviewer from amazon.com, and (3) an outline of The Fundamentals.

Here’s Wiki’s brief note.

Ludwig Ott (October 24, 1906, in Neumarkt-St. Helena—October 25, 1985, in Eichstaett) was a Catholic theologian and Medievalist from Bavaria.

“After training at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Ott was ordained a priest in 1930. He received his doctorate in Munich (1931-1936) under Martin Grabmann and was mentored by him in studying the development of medieval theology. In 1936 he was "extraordinary professor", and in 1941 a full professor of dogmatics at the episcopal philosophical and theological college in Eichstaett. From 1960 to 1962 he was the rector of this Catholic university.

“His research centered mostly in the area of dogmatics. With his Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma he produced a standard reference work on dogmatics. The work, popular with both clergy and laity, has been translated into more than ten languages.”

Secondly, one reviewer from amazon.com said this: 

 

“During my spiritual journey to find a home, I came to rely on this excellent compendium of solid catholic theology during a time when I found most clergy and laity unsure of what it was they did believe -- or believed anything they wanted, despite centuries of belief to the contrary. As a resource document, it is without parallel after the Documents of Vatican II.

 

“The documents of Vatican II are a clearer, wider, and more spiritual exposition of what the Church today believes. But sometimes, with so many mixed messages from pulpit and revisionists, the Documents of Vatican II can present difficulties to those uncertain of core beliefs.

 

“That's where this book comes in. This book is systematic theology at its best. It posits the dogmas of the Church in a clear and unequivocal manner, and then goes about supplying the historical foundations for these dogmas. These foundations include ecumenical councils as well as writings of the saints. If a certain proposition is "de fide," it is of unquestioned belief. But there are other propositions that are not "de fide," that are provided to sharpen the core deposit from speculative ideas.

“I refer to this book often when I come across propositions I find either doubtful or equivocal. Not only does it provide the clear and unadulterated truths of the catholic faith, but it provides the raison d'etre for those truths, making it a wealth of clear exposition of why catholics believe what they believe.”

Now,  for the outline.

Book One

Unity and Trinity of God

Part 1: The Unity of God:  His Existence and Nature

Section 1: The Existence of God

Chapter 1: The natural Knowability of the Existence of God

1.      Possibility of the natural knowledge of God in light of Supernatural Revelation

2.      Possibility of proof of God’s existence

3.      Errors regarding the natural Knowability of God

Chapter 2:  The supernatural Knowability of the Existence of God

4.      God’s existence as an Object of Faith

 

Section 2: The Nature of God

Chapter 1: The knowledge of the Nature of God

5.      The Natural knowledge of the nature of God in this world

6.      Supernatural knowledge of the Divine Essence in the other world

7.      Supernatural knowledge of the Divine Being in this world through faith

Chapter 2: The Nature of God in Itself

8.      The Biblical names of God

9.      The physical and metaphysical nature of God

Section 3: Attributes or Qualities of God

10.  Attributes of God in general

Chapter 1: The Attributes of the Divine Being

11. Absolute Perfection of God

12. God’s Infinity

13. God’s Simplicity

14. God’s Unicity

15. God’s Truth

16. God’s Goodness

17. God’s Immutability

18. God’s Eternity

19. Immensity or Immeasurability of God and His Omnipresence

Chapter 2: The Attributes of the Divine Life

20. Perfection of Divine Knowledge

21. Object and division of the divine knowing

22. Medium of the divine prescience of free actions of rational creatures

23. Divine knowing of origin of things

24. Perfection of divine willing

25. Object of divine volition

26. Physical properties of the divine will

27. Moral attributes of the divine will

 

Part 2: Doctrine of the Triune God

Section 1: Dogmatic Formulation and Positive Foundation of the Dogma of the Trinity

Chapter 1: The Antitrinitarian Heresies and the Doctrinal Decisions of the Church

1.      The Heresies

2.      Doctrinal decisions of the Church

Chapter 2: Proof of the Existence of the Trinity from Scripture and Tradition

3.      Indications of the Trinity of God in the Old Testament

4.      The Trinitarian Formulae

5.      The New Testament doctrine of God the Father

6.      The New Testament doctrine of God the Son

7.      The New Testament doctrine of God the Holy Ghost

8.      The New Testament doctrine of the numerical unity of the divine nature in Three Persons

9.      The testimony of tradition for the Trinity of God

Chapter 3: The Triple Personality of God

10. Internal divine procession in general

11. Procession of the Son from the Father by way of generation

12. Procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son by way of spiration

Section 2: Speculative Explanation of the Dogma of the Trinity

Chapter 1: Speculative Explanation of the Internal-Divine Processions

13. The Son proceeds from the Intellect of the Father by way of generation

14. The Holy Ghost proceeds from the Will or from the Mutual Love of the Father and the Son

15. The Holy Ghost does not proceed through generation by through spiration

Chapter 2: The Divine Relations and Persons

16. The Divine relations

17. The Divine persons

18. The Divine personal properties (Proprietates) and Notions

19. Trinitarian Perichoresis (Circumincesssion)

20. Unity of the Divine Operation ad extra

21. The Appropriations

22. The Divine missions

Chapter 3: The Relation of the Trinity to Reason

23. The mysterious character of the Dogma of the Trinity

 

Book Two

God the Creator

Section 1: The Divine Act of Creation

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the world or the creation of the world

1.      The reality of the divine creation of the world

2.      The Divine world-idea

3.      Motive and purpose of the creation of the world

4.      The Trinity and creation

5.      Freedom of the Divine Act in creation

6.      The temporal character of the world

7.      Incommunicability of the Creative Power

Chapter 2: The Continuous Preservation and Governing of the World

8.      The preservation of the world

9.      Divine co-operation

10. Divine providence and government of the world

 

Section 2: The Divine Work of Creation

Chapter 1: Revealed doctrine concerning material things, e.g. Christian cosmology

11. Biblical Hexameron (the Six Days of Creation)

12. Doctrine of Evolution in the light of Revelation

Chapter 2: Doctrine of Revelation regarding man or Christian anthropology

13. Origin of the first human pair and unity of the human race

14. Essential constituent parts of human nature

15. Origin of individual human souls

16. Concept of the supernatural

17. Relation of nature and supernature

18. Supernatural endowment of the first man

19. Various states of human nature

20. Personal sin of the first parents or original sin

21. Existence of original sin

22. Nature of original sin

23. Transmission of original sin

24. Consequences of original sin

25. The lot of children dying in original sin

Chapter 3: Revelation concerning angels or Christian angelology

26. Existence, origin, and number of angels

27. Nature of angels

28. Supernatural exaltation and probation of angels

29. The fall through sin and the rejection of bad angels

30. Efficacy of good angels

31. Efficacy of bad angels

 

Book Three

The Doctrine of God the Redeemer

Part 1: Doctrine of the Person of the Redeemer

Preliminary examination

1.      The historical existence of Christ

Section 1: The Two Natures of Christ and the Mode and Manner of their Unification

 

Chapter 1: The True Divinity of Christ

2.      The Dogma of the True Divinity of Christ and its opponents

3.      The testimony of the Old Testament

4.      The testimony of the Synoptic Gospels

5.      The testimony of the Gospel of St. John

6.      The testimony of the Pauline Epistles

7.      The testimony from the tradition of the Church

Chapter 2: Christ’s True Humanity

8.      The reality of Christ’s human nature

9.      The integrity of Christ’s human nature

10. The Adamite origin of Christ’s human nature

Chapter 3: The Unification of the Two Natures in Christ in the Unity of the Person

11. The unity of Christ’s Person

12. Duality of the natures

13. Duality of the willing and modes of operation

14. Beginning and during of the hypostatic union

Chapter 4: Theological-speculative discussion on the hypostatic union

15. The supernatural and mysterious character of the hypostatic union

16. Objections to the dogma of the hypostatic union

17. Relationship of the hypostatic union to the Trinity

Chapter 5: Inferences from the hypostatic union

18. Natural Sonship of God of the Man Jesus Christ

19. Christ’s right to adoration

20. Adoration of the most sacred heart of Jesus

21. Communication of the idioms

22. Christological perichoresis

 

Section 2: The Attributes of Christ’s Human Nature

Chapter 1: Prerogatives of Christ’s Human Nature

23. Prerogative of Christ in the domain of human knowledge—Immediate vision of God

24. Immediate vision of God

25. Infused knowledge of Christ

26. Excellences of Christ’s human will or Christ’s holiness—Christ’s sinlessness and impeccability

27. Christ’s sanctity and fullness of grace

28. Perfection of Christ’s human power—Christ’s power

Chapter 2: Defects or Passibility of Christ’s human nature

29. Christ’s capacity for suffering

Part 2: The Doctrine of the Work of the Redeemer

Chapter 1: Redemption in general

1.      Purpose of the incarnation

2.      Controversy as to the conditioned or unconditioned predestination of the incarnation

3.      Concept and possibility of the redemption through Christ

4.      Necessity for and freedom of the redemption

Chapter 2: The Realisation of the Redemption through the three offices of Christ

5.      Teaching office: Christ’s teaching or prophetical office

6.      Pastoral office: Christ’s pastoral or kingly office

7.      Priestly office: reality of Christ’s priestly office

8.      Exercise of sacerdotal office or Christ’s sacrifice

9.      Soteriological significance of Christ’s sacrifice

10. Christ’s vicarious atonement

11. Christ’s merits

Chapter 3: Glorious conclusion of Christ’s work of redemption

12. Descent into hell

13. Christ’s resurrection

14. Christ’s ascension into heaven

Part 3: The Mother of the Redeemer

Chapter 1: Mary’s motherhood of God

1.      Reality of Mary’s motherhood of God

2.      Mary’s fullness of grace and her dignity deriving from her motherhood of God

Chapter 2: Privileges of the Motherhood of God

3.      Mary’s immaculate conception

4.      Mary’s freedom from evil concupiscence and from every personal sin

5.      Mary’s perpetual virginity

6.      Bodily assumption of Mary into heaven

Chapter 3: Mary’s co-operation in the work of redemption

7.      Mediatorship of Mary

8.      Veneration of Mary

 

Book Four

The Doctrine of God the Sanctifier

Part 1: the Doctrine of Grace

Introduction: Of grace in general

1.      The subjective redemption in general

2.      Concept of grace

3.      Classification of grace

4.      Principal errors concerning grace

Section 1: Actual Grace

Chapter 1: The Nature of Actual Grace

5.      Enlightening and strengthening grace

6.      Antecedent and consequent grace

7.      Controversy as to the nature of actual grace

Chapter 2: The necessity of actual grace

8.      The necessity of grace for the acts of supernatural order

9.      Human nature’s capacity to act without grace and the limits of this capacity

Chapter 3: Distribution of actual grace

10. God’s freedom in the distribution of grace or the gratuity of grace

11. Universality of grace

12. Mystery of predestination

13. Mystery of reprobation

Chapter 4: Relation between grace and freedom

14. The teaching of the Church on grace and freedom as against heresy

15. Theological speculation on the relationship between grace and freedom

Section 2: Habitual Grace

Chapter 1: The process of justification

16. The concept of justification

17. Causes of justification

18. Preparation for justification

Chapter 2: The State of Justification

19. Nature of sanctifying grace

20. Formal effects of sanctifying grace

21. Comity of sanctifying grace

22. Attributes of the state of grace

Chapter 3: Consequences or fruits of justification or the doctrine concerning merit

23. The reality of supernatural merit

24. Conditions of supernatural merit

25. Object of supernatural merit

 

Part 2: The Church

 

Chapter 1: Divine origin of the Church

1.      Concept of Church

2.      Foundation of Church by Christ

3.      Purpose of the Church

Chapter 2: The Constitution of the Church

4.      Hierarchal Constitution of the Church

5.      Primacy of St. Peter

6.      Primacy of the jurisdiction of the Pope

7.      Nature of Papal primacy

8.      Papal teaching Primacy or Papal infallibility

9.      Bishops

Chapter 3: Internal Constitution of the Church

10. Christ and the Church

11. The Holy Ghost and the Church

Chapter 4: Properties or Essential Attributes of the Church

12. Indefectibility of the Church

13. Infallibility of the Church

14. Visibility of the Church

15. Unity of the Church

16. Sanctity of the Church

17. Catholicity of the Church

18. Apostolicity of the Church

Chapter 5: Necessity of the Church

19. Membership of the Church

20. Necessity for membership of the Church

Chapter 6: Communion of the saints

21. Concept and reality of the communion of the saints

22. Communion of the faithful living on earth

23. Communion between the faithful on earth and the saints in heaven

24. Communion of the faithful on earth, the saints in heaven and the poor souls in purgatory

Part 3: Sacraments

Section 1: Doctrine of the Sacraments in General

Chapter 1: The nature of the sacraments

1.      Concept of sacrament

2.      Constituent parts of sacramental sign

Chapter 2: Efficacy and effects of the sacraments

3.      Objective efficacy of sacraments

4.      Mode of operation of the sacraments

5.      Effects of the sacraments

Chapter 3: Institution and seven-fold nature of the sacraments

6.      Institution of the sacraments by Christ

7.      Seven sacraments

8.      Necessity of sacraments

Chapter 4: Minister and recipient of the sacraments

9.      The Minister of the sacraments

10. Recipient of the sacraments

Chapter 5: Pre-Christian Sacraments and Sacramentals

11. Pre-Christian sacraments

12. Sacramentals


Section 2: The Seven Sacraments

1.      The Sacrament of Baptism

1.      Concept of Baptism and its sacramental nature

2.      Outward sign of baptism

3.      Effects of baptism

4.      Necessity of baptism

5.      Minister of baptism

6.      Recipient of baptism

2.     Sacrament of Confirmation

1.      Concept of confirmation and its sacramental nature

2.      Outward sign of confirmation

3.      Effects of confirmation

4.      Necessity of confirmation

5.      Minister of confirmation

6.      Recipient of confirmation

3.     The Sacrament of Eucharist

1.      Concept of the Eucharist

Section 1: The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist

Chapter 1: The Fact of the Real Presence of Christ

2.      Heretical counter-theses

3.      Christ’s Real Presence according to the testimony of Holy Scripture

4.      Real Presence according to the testimony of tradition

Chapter 2: Effecting of Christ’s Real Presence, or the Transubstantiation

5.      Dogma and concept of transubstantiation

6.      Transubstantiation according to the testimony of sources of faith

7.      Sacramental accidents

Chapter 3: Nature and Manner of the Real Presence of Christ

8.      Totality of the Presence

9.      Permanence of the Real Presence

10. Adoration due to the Eucharist

Chapter 4: Blessed Eucharist and Human Reason

11. Mysterious character of the Eucharist

12. Apparent contradictions between reason and the Eucharistic dogma

Section 2: Eucharist as a Sacrament

13. Sacramental nature of the Eucharist

14. Outward signs of the Eucharist

15. Effects of the Eucharist

16. Necessity of the Eucharist

17. Minister of the Eucharist

18. Recipient of the Eucharist

Section 3: Eucharist as a Sacrifice

Chapter 1: The Reality of the Sacrifice of the Mass

19. The sacrificial character of the Eucharist according to the teaching of the Church

20. Sacrificial character of the Eucharist according to the testimony of Holy Writ

21. Sacrificial character of the Eucharist according to the testimony of tradition

Chapter 2: Nature of the Sacrifice of the Mass

22. Relation of the sacrifice of the Mass to the sacrifice of the Cross

23. Physical nature of the sacrifice of the Mass

24. Metaphysical nature of the sacrifice of the Mass

Chapter 3: Effects and the Efficacy of the Sacrifice of the Mass

25. Effects of the sacrifice of the Mass

26. Efficacy of the sacrifice of the Mass

27. Value and fruits of the sacrifice of the Mass

IV. The Sacrament of Penance

1.      Concept of Penance

Section 1: Church’s Power to Forgive Sins

Chapter 1: Existence of the Church’s power to forgive sins

2.      The dogma and heretical counter-propositions

3.      Testimony of Holy Writ

4.      Testimony of tradition

Chapter 2: Properties of the Church’s Power to Forgive Sins

5.      Church’s power to forgive sins as a true power of absolution

6.      Universality of the Church’s power to forgive sins

7.      Judicial character of the church’s power to forgive sins

Section 2: Church’s forgiveness of sins as a Sacrament

8.      Sacramental nature of the Church’s forgiveness of sins

Chapter 1: Outward signs of the sacrament of penance—contrition

9.      Contrition in general

10. Perfect contrition

11. Imperfect contrition

12. Confession—divine institution of confession and necessity of confession for salvation

13. Object of confession

14. Concept and quality of sacramental satisfaction

15. Absolution—priest’s absolution as the form of the sacrament of penance

Chapter 2: Effects of the sacrament of penance and its necessity

16. Effects of the sacrament of penance

17. Necessity of the sacrament of penance

Chapter 3: Minister and recipients of the sacrament of penance

18. Minister of the sacrament of penance

19. Recipient of the sacrament of penance

20. Doctrine of indulgences

V. Sacrament of Extreme Unction

1.      Concept and sacramental nature of extreme unction

2.      Outward signs of extreme unction

3.      Effects of extreme unction

4.      Necessity of extreme unction

5.      Minister of extreme unction

6.      Recipient of extreme unction

VI. Sacrament of Holy Order (Ordo)

1.      Concept and sacramental nature of holy order

2.      Individual grades of ordination

3.      Outward sing of the sacrament of order

4.      Effects of the sacrament of order

5.      Dispenser of holy order

6.      Receiver of holy order

VII. Sacrament of Matrimony

1.      Concept, origin and sacramental nature of matrimony

2.      Purposes and properties of matrimony

3.      Outward sign of sacrament of matrimony

4.      Effects of sacrament of matrimony

5.      Minister and recipient of sacrament of matrimony

6.      Church’s power over matrimony

 

Book Five

Doctrine of God the Consummator

Doctrine of the Last things or the Consummation (Eschatology)

Chapter 1: Eschatology of the individual human being

1.      Death

2.      Particular judgment

3.      Heaven

4.      Hell

5.      Purgatory

Chapter 2: Eschatology of the whole of humanity

6.      The Second Coming

7.      Resurrection of the Dead

8.      General judgment

9.      End of the world

Bibliography

Index of Persons

Index of Subjects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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