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xi, 257 pages ; 23 cm. |
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The Herder history of dogma
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| Contents |
Penance -- Chapter One: Early Christian penance -- I. The New Testament -- 1. The Gospels -- 2. St. Paul -- 3. The epistle to the Hebrews -- 4. The Catholic epistles and the Apocalypse -- II. The post Apostolic age -- 1. General evidence for penance -- 2. The penitential doctrine of hermas -- III. The development of the doctrine of penance and the establishment of penitential practice in the third century -- 1. The montanist movement -- 2. Penance in the age of Tertullian -- a. The controversy on penance in Africa -- b. The organization and theory of penance -- c. The evidence from outside Africa -- 3. Cyprian and the question of penance in the Decian persecution -- a. The treatment of the Lapsed -- b. The dogmatic theology of penance in St. Cyprian -- 4. The penitential doctrine of the Great Alexandrians -- 5. The martyrs' privilege in regard to penance -- IV. Canonical penance from the fourth to the sixth centuries: its development and decline -- 1. The object of ecclesiastical penance -- 2. The organization of penance -- 3. The sacramental efficacy of reconciliation -- 4. The law of one penance: life long obligations of penance -- 5. The penance of clerics and religious -- 6. Reconciliation without ecclesiastical penance -- Therapeutic direction of souls -- Chapter Two: Penance in the early Middle Ages -- V. The rise of private penance -- 1. Penance in the Celtic and Anglo Saxon churches -- 2. The transplanting of the Celtic penitential system on the continent -- VI. Confession -- VII. The ecclesiastical power of the Keys -- VIII. Medieval forms of penance, paenitentia solemnis -- Chapter Three: The theology of penance from the early scholastic period to the Council of Trent -- IX. The doctrine of penance from the beginning of scholaisticism to St. Thomas Aquinas -- X. St. Thomas Aquinas and pre Tridentine Thomists -- XI. The Scotist doctrine of penance -- Chapter Four: Tridentine and post Tridentine teaching on penance -- XII. Doctrinal pronouncements of the church before the council -- XIII. The council of Trent -- XIV. Post tridentine theology -- Chapter Five: Indulgences -- XV. The growth of indulgences -- XVI. The theology of indulgences -- The Anointing of the Sick -- XVII. The anointing of the sick in Scripture and in the early church -- XVIII. Medieval practice -- XIX. The theology of the anointing of the sick. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Subject |
Penance -- History.
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Extreme unction -- History.
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