Early Latin Theology

Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), a professor of theology, taught at Regis College, Harvard University, and Boston College. An established author known for his Insight and Method in Theology, Lonergan received numerous honorary doctorates, was a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1971 and was named as an original member of the International Theological Commission by Pope Paul VI.Robert M. Doran is the Emmett Doerr Chair in Catholic Systematic Theology at Marquette University.H. Daniel Monsour is an associate editor of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan and holds a PhD in theology from the University of Toronto.Michael G. Shields is the librarian at the Lonergan Research Institute, Regis College, University of Toronto, and translator of several volumes in the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan.

‘The editors may be congratulated for a judicious selection of valuable texts… This monumental task was accomplished with fidelity and polish… an outstanding contribution both to Lonergan studies and to Scholastic theology.’ - Jeremy Wilkins (The Thomist vol 78:04:2014)

• General Editors’ Preface, Robert M. DoranENGLISH TRANSLATIONPart 1: The Notion of SacrificeIntroduction to ‘The Notion of Sacrifice,’ michael g. shields 1 The Definition of Sacrifice2 Justification of This Definition3 The Propriety of Symbols4 First Application of the Definition5 A Second Application of the Definition6 The Causes of Sacrifice7 The Difference between the Sacrifice of the Cross and the Mass8 The Value of This InquiryPart 2: The Supernatural OrderFrom 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 themselvesExcursus 2: A note on purely entitative supernaturalityThesis 4: Potency to the absolutely supernatural is obediential.Excursus 1: On the natural desire to see God through his essenceExcursus 2: Supernatural acts as vital actsExcursus 3: Divine concurrenceExcursus 4: The efficacy of divine concurrenceThesis 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 WillFrom the 1973 Introduction to ‘De scientia atque voluntate Dei,’ Regis Edition, frederick e. crowe1 The Aim of This Treatise2 The Nature of Metaphysical Analysis3 The Comparison between Eternal and Temporal Being4 Immanent Contingent Operation5 Action and Passion6 Necessary and Contingent Being7 Contingent Future Realities8 Divine Transcendence9 Principles of Priority and Simultaneity10 God’s Knowledge11 The Various Roots of Middle Knowledge12 Order13 The Meaning of Good and End14 Evil15 God’s Will16 God’s Love17 Efficient Causality18 God’s Action19 Other Opinions about God’s Action20 Can God Be Accountable for the Formal Element of Sin?21 God’s Antecedent Will22 Other Conceptions of God’s Antecedent Will23 Why God Allows Culpable Evil24 Conceptual Designations in God (Signa Rationis)25 Predestination and Reprobation26 Objections27 A Brief Summary of PrinciplesPart 4: Analysis of FaithFrom the 1973 Introduction to ‘Analysis Fidei,’ Regis Edition, frederick e. crowe1 The Logical Process2 The Psychological Process3 The Reflective Act of Understanding4 In the Psychological Faith Process the Reflective Act of Understanding IsPivotal5 Difference between the Logical and the Psychological Process6 Constraint of the Intellect and Rationalization7 What Is the Analysis of Faith?8 A Brief Overview9 The Motive of Faith as Acquired10 The Supernatural Formal Object11 Those Who Believe Properly Attain a Supernatural Formal Object12 An Alternative Explanation of the Above13 Acts Which Immediately Precede Faith14 Acts Which Remotely Precede Faith15 The Grace of Conversion to Faith16 The Properties of Faith17 The Necessity of Faith18 The Necessity of the Preambles of Faith19 The Faith of Heretics, of Demons, and of Those Who Have Knowledge20 The Meaning of ‘Right Reason Demonstrates the Truth of Faith’OpinionsPage on the Necessity for the PreamblesPart 5: The Notion of Fittingness: The Application of Theological Methodto the Question of the Purpose of the Incarnation1 The Notion of Fittingness2 The Root of Fittingness3 The Excellence of Order4 The Conceptually Distinguished Formalities5 The Fittingness of the Incarnation6 The Necessity of the Incarnation7 The Purpose of the IncarnationPart 6: The Consciousness of ChristFrom ‘Note on the Context of De conscientia Christi,’ frederick e. croweThe Consciousness of ChristPart 7: Supplementary Notes on Sanctifying GraceIntroductory Comments to ‘Supplementary Notes on Sanctifying Grace’[1 Historical Sketch][1.1] Habitual Grace: Preliminary Notes[1.2] The Nominalists[1.3] The Sixteenth-Century Reformers[1.4] The Way of Proceeding[1.5] The Notion of Justice2 The Positive Doctrine of Sacred Scripture[Thesis 1:] To those whom God the Father loves [1] as he loves Jesus, his only-begotten Son, (2) he gives the uncreated gift of the Holy Spirit, so that (3) into a new life they may be (4) born again and (5) become living members of Christ; therefore as (6) just, (7) friends of God, (8) adopted children of God, and (9) heirs in hope of eternal life, (10) they enter into a sharing in the divine nature.3 Understanding the Faith3.1 Sanctifying Grace: The Problem[3.2] Preliminary Notes on the Nature of Sanctifying Grace: Notions[3.2.1] Formal Cause and Formal Effects[3.2.2] Divine Love[Theorem 1:] All divine love as an effective principle is predicated essentially and thus equally of the three divine Persons.Corollary [to Theorem 1:] Absolutely all grace, inasmuch as it is related to divine love as its effective principle, by that very fact is related not to notional but to essential divine love.[Theorem 2:] Not everything that is stated contingently about the divine persons is stated by appropriation.[3.2.3] The Ontological Foundation of Grace[3.3] The Immanent Formal Effects of Sanctifying Grace[3.4] The Transcendent Formal Effects of Sanctifying Grace[3.5] CorollariesAppendicesAppendix 1: ‘The Notion of Sacrifice’: Three Drafts on Theological Method in Connection with the Idea of SacrificeAppendix 2: ‘God’s Knowledge and Will’Editors’ IntroductionAppendix 2AAppendix 2BIndexLATIN TEXTPars 1: De Notione Sacrificii1 Definitio Sacrificii2 Definitionis Iustificatio3 De Proprietate Symboli4 Prima Definitionis Applicatio5 Altera Definitionis Applicatio6 De Causis Sacrificii7 De Differentia Sacrificiorum Crucis et Missae8 De Valore Peractae InquisitionisPars 2: De Ente Supernaturali: Supplementum Schematicum[Introductio]Thesis I: Exsistit creata communicatio divinae naturae, seu principium creatum, proportionatum, et remotum quo creaturae insunt operationes quibus attingitur Deus uti in se est.Thesis II: Haec creata divinae naturae communicatio non solum naturae humanae sed etiam cuiuslibet finitae substantiae proportionem excedit ideoque est supernaturalis simpliciter.Thesis III:Quia actus non solum virtutum theologicarum sed etiam aliarum virtutum, inquantum in parte rationali et sicut oportet a Christiano eliciuntur, ab obiecto formali supernaturali specificantur, ideo simpliciter supernaturales sunt quoad substantiam et quidem ratione obiecti formalis.Scholion I: De gradibus intra ipsos actus supernaturalesScholion II: De supernaturalitate mere entitativeThesis IV: Potentia ad supernaturalia simpliciter est obedientialis.Scholion I: De naturali desiderio videndi Deum per essentiamScholion II: De actibus supernaturalibus qua vitalibusScholion III: De concursu divinoScholion IV: De efficacia concursus diviniThesis V: Gratia actualis interna essentialiter consistit in actibus secundis intellectus et voluntatis vitalibus, principalibus, et supernaturalibus.Pars 3: De Scientia atque Voluntate Dei1 De Fine Huius Operis2 De Natura Analysis Metaphysicae3 De Comparationis Entis Aeterni et Temporalis4 Operatio Immanens et Contingens5 De Actione et Passione6 De Necessario et Contingente7 De Futuris Contingentibus8 De Transcendentia Divina9 Principia Prioritatis et Simultaneitatis10 De Scientia Dei11 De Diversis Radicibus Scientiae Mediae12 De Ordine13 De Bono et Fine14 De Malo15 De Divina Voluntate16 De Amore Divino17 De Causa Efficiente18 De Actione Divina19 De Divina Actione Sententiae Aliae20 Utrum Formale Peccati in Deum Reduci Possit21 De Voluntate Dei Antecedente22 Voluntatis Antecendentis Conceptiones Aliae23 Cur Deus Malum Culpae Permittat24 De Signis Rationis25 De Praedestinatione et Reprobatione26 Obiectiones27 Principiorum SummulaAppendix 1Pars 4: Analysis Fidei1 Processus Logicus2 Processus Psychologicus3 Quid Sit Actus Intelligendi Reflexus4 Quod in Processu Fidei Psychologico Cardo Est Actus Intelligendi Reflexus5 Quantum Differunt Processus Logicus et Psychologicus6 Quid Sit Coactio Intellectus et Quid Rationalizatio7 Quid Sit Analysis Fidei8 Brevis Conspectus9 Motivum Fidei in Facto Fsse10 De Obiecto Formali Supernaturali11 Quod Qui Credit Sicut Oportet Obiectum Formale Supernaturale Attingit12 Quod Iterum Aliter Ponitur13 De Actibus Qui Proxime Fidem Antecedunt14 De Actibus Qui Remote Fidem Antecedunt15 De Gratia Conversionis ad Fidem16 De Proprietatibus Fidei17 De Necessitate Fidei18 De Necessitate Praeambulorum19 Circa Fidem in Haereticis, Diabolis, et Scientibus20 Circa Illud, ‘Recta Ratio Fidei Veritatem Demonstrat’OpinionesPars 5: De Ratione Convenientiae: Methodus Theologica ad Finem Incarnationis Applicata1 Quid Sit Convenientia2 De Radice Convenientiae3 De Excellentia Ordinis/4 De Signis Rationis5 De Convenientia Incarnationis6 De Necessitate Incarnationis7 Circa Finem IncarnationisPars 6: De Conscientia ChristiPars 7: De Gratia Sanctificante. Supplementum[1 Adlineamenta historica][1.1] De gratia habituali. Initia[1.2] Nominales[1.3] Novatores saec. xvi[1.4] Modus procedendi[1.5] De notione iustitiae2 Positiva Sacrae Scripturae Doctrina[Thesis I:] Quos diligit Deus Pater (1) sicut Iesum Filium suum unigenitum diligit, (2) dono eos increato ipsius Spiritus sancti donat, ut (3) in novam vitam (4) renati (5) viva Christi membra efficiantur; quare (6) iusti, (7) Deo amici, (8) filii Dei adoptivi, et (9) haeredes secundum spem vitae aeternae, (10) consortium divinae naturae ineunt.3 Intelligentia Fidei3.1 Gratia Sanctificans: Problema[3.2] De Natura Gratiae Sanctificantis: Praenotamina[3.2.1] De causa Formali et Effectibus Formalibus[3.2.2] De Amore Divino[Theorema I:] Essentialiter et ideo pariter de tribus personis dicitur omnis amor divinus inquantum est principium effectivum.Corollarium: Omnis prorsus gratia, inquantum respicit amorem divinum ut principium effectivum, eo ipso respicit amorem non notionalem sed essentialem.[Theorema II:] Non omnia quae contingenter de divinis personis dicuntur, per appropriationem dicuntur.[3.2.3] De Fundamento Gratiae Ontologico[3.3] Secundum effectus formales et immanentes[3.4] Secundum effectus formales et transcendentales[3.5] CorollariaAppendix IIa