A Manual of Catholic Theology: Based on Scheeben’s “Dogmatik”, Vol. I
Overview
A Manual of Catholic Theology is Joseph Wilhelm and Thomas B. Scannell’s classic two-volume English adaptation of Joseph Scheeben’s Dogmatik. In his preface to the Manual, Henry Edward quotes St. Anselm, saying, “… the right order of things requires that we should first believe the deep things of the Christian faith before we presume to discuss them by reason, so it seems to me to be negligence if … we do not study to understand what we believe.” A Manual of Catholic Theology addresses this negligence by scientifically examining the first principles of faith. Originally begun by Scheeben in 1873, A Manual of Catholic Theology takes the fundamentals of the Christian faith and sorts through them with a fine philosophical knife. Volume one covers the epistemology of faith and the nature of God, while volume two covers the narrative of the Gospel: fall, grace, redemption, grace, the Church, and the new creation.
Top Highlights
“‘Theology teaches about God, is taught by God, and leads to God.’1” (Page xvii)
“But from first to last the reason of man is the disciple, not the critic, of the revelation of God: and the highest science of the human intellect is that which, taking its preamble from the light of nature, begins in faith; and receiving its axioms from faith, expands by the procession of truth from truth.” (Pages vi–vii)
“All natural knowledge of intellectual, religious, and ethical truths must be connected with a Divine Revelation of some kind, and this for two reasons: to maintain the dependence of these truths upon God, and the better to inculcate the duty of obeying them.” (Page 4)
“Positive Revelation is not absolutely, categorically, and physically necessary for the knowledge of truths of the natural order bearing upon religion and morals, but it is relatively, hypothetically, and morally necessary.” (Page 7)
“The unaided light of reason can attain only a mediate knowledge of God by means of the study of His creatures, and must consequently be imperfect. Both the subjective medium (the human mind) and the objective medium (creation), are finite, whereas God is infinite.” (Page 6)
- Title: A Manual of Catholic Theology: Based on Scheeben’s “Dogmatik”, Vol. I
- Authors: Joseph Wilhelm, Thomas B. Scannell
- Edition: Fourth Edition, Revised
- Series: A Manual of Catholic Theology
- Volume: I
- Publishers: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Benziger Brothers
- Print Publication Date: 1909
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Catholic Church › Doctrines; Theology, doctrinal
- Resource ID: LLS:MNCTHTHLGY01
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:21:45Z