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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