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Theology Proper
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Dogma ๐Ÿ“•Authoritative Teaching ๐Ÿ“—Theologoumenon ๐Ÿ“’Condemned โŒConciliar Definition ๐Ÿ›Papal Definition ๐Ÿ—Ordinary & Universal Magisterium ๐Ÿ“œSchool of Thought ๐Ÿ”€Open Question ๐ŸงฉCommon Teaching ๐Ÿ“šDisciplinary โ›ชPrivate Revelation ๐Ÿ•ฏ
The Faรงade
Existence of God๐Ÿ“•
Omnipotence๐Ÿ“•
Omniscience๐Ÿ“•
Eternality๐Ÿ“•
The Holy Trinity๐Ÿ“•
God the Father๐Ÿ“•
God the Son๐Ÿ“•
God the Holy Spirit๐Ÿ“•
Jesus is the Son of God๐Ÿ“•
The Virgin Birth๐Ÿ“•
The Crucifixion๐Ÿ“•
The Resurrection๐Ÿ“•
The Ascension into Heaven๐Ÿ“•
The Second Coming๐Ÿ“•
God Created the World๐Ÿ“•
Adam and Eve๐Ÿ“•
The Fall๐Ÿ“•
The Human Soul๐Ÿ“•
Angels๐Ÿ“•
Demons๐Ÿ“•
The Devil๐Ÿ“•
Mary, Mother of God๐Ÿ“•
Mary, The Blessed Virgin๐Ÿ“•
Jesus Died For Our Sins๐Ÿ“•
Salvation๐Ÿ“•
Heaven๐Ÿ“•
Hell๐Ÿ“•
Baptism๐Ÿ“•
Eucharist๐Ÿ“•
Marriage๐Ÿ“•
Confession๐Ÿ“•
Holy Orders๐Ÿ“•
Confirmation๐Ÿ“•
The Church๐Ÿ“•
The Pope๐Ÿ“•
The Parishโ›ช
The Priesthoodโ›ช
The Ten Commandments๐Ÿ“•
The Golden Rule๐Ÿ“—
Sin๐Ÿ“•
Forgiveness๐Ÿ“•
The Last Judgement๐Ÿ“•
Eternal Life๐Ÿ“•
The Narthex
God's Existence Knowable by Reason Alone๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ›
Divine Providence๐Ÿ“•
Divine Mercy๐Ÿ“•
Divine Immutability๐Ÿ“•
Consubstantiality of the Persons๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ›
The Filioque๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ›
ArianismโŒ
ModalismโŒ
TritheismโŒ
The Hypostatic Union๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ›
The Descent into Hell๐Ÿ“•
DocetismโŒ
NestorianismโŒ
MonophysitismโŒ
Creation Ex Nihilo๐Ÿ“•
The Immortality of the Soul๐Ÿ“•
Original Sin๐Ÿ“•
The Imago Dei๐Ÿ“•
Theistic Evolution๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿงฉ๐Ÿ“š
Guardian Angels๐Ÿ“•
Fallen Angels๐Ÿ“•
The Immaculate Conception๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ—
Theotokos๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ›
Perpetual Virginity๐Ÿ“•
The Assumption๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ—
Necessity of Grace๐Ÿ“•
Ransom Theory of Atonement๐Ÿ“’
Satisfaction Theory of Atonement๐Ÿ“’
Justification by Faith๐Ÿ“•
PelagianismโŒ
Sola FideโŒ
Sola Scriptura โŒ
Transubstantiation๐Ÿ“•
Ex Opere Operato๐Ÿ“•
Anointing of the Sick๐Ÿ“•
Baptism of Desire๐Ÿ“—
Vetus Ordo Massโ›ช
The Four Marks of the Church๐Ÿ“•
Apostolic Succession๐Ÿ“•
Papal Infallibility๐Ÿ“•
Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition๐Ÿ“•
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ“’
SSPX๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ”€
SedevacantismโŒ๐Ÿ”€
Natural Law๐Ÿ“•
Intrinsic Evil๐Ÿ“•
The Principle of Double Effect๐Ÿ“—
Contraception Banned๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ—
Purgatory๐Ÿ“•
The Particular Judgement๐Ÿ“•
The Resurrection of the Body๐Ÿ“•
The Limbo of the Infants๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿงฉ๐Ÿ“š
The Limbo of the Fathers๐Ÿ“•
Indulgences๐Ÿ“•
The Four Last Things๐Ÿ“•
The Nave
Divine Simplicity๐Ÿ“•
Divine Aseity๐Ÿ“•
Analogia Entis๐Ÿ“—๐Ÿ“š
Divine Impassibility๐Ÿ“•
Tota Simul๐Ÿ“—๐Ÿ“š
Eternal Generation of the Son๐Ÿ“•
Procession of the Holy Spirit๐Ÿ“•
Perichoresis๐Ÿ“•
The Psychological Analogy of the Trinity๐Ÿ“’
Social Trinity Models๐Ÿ“’
Dyothelitism๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ›
MonothelitismโŒ
Christ's Beatific Vision During His Earthly Life๐Ÿ“—
The Impeccability of Christ๐Ÿ“•
Kenotic ChristologyโŒ
Whether the Incarnation Would Have Occurred Without the Fall๐Ÿ“’
The Soul as Form of the Body๐Ÿ“•
The Preternatural Gifts of Adam๐Ÿ“•
Monogenism๐Ÿ“—
The State of Pure Nature (Natura Pura)๐Ÿ“’
Concupiscence as Wound, Not Sin๐Ÿ“•
Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces๐Ÿ“’
Mary as Co-Redemptrix๐Ÿ“’
Mary as the New Eve๐Ÿ“—
Mary as New Ark of the Covenant๐Ÿ“—
Maximalist vs. Minimalist Mariology๐Ÿ“’
Christus Victor Theory of Atonement๐Ÿ“’
Deification/Divinization๐Ÿ“—
Recapitulation Theory๐Ÿ“’
Baptism of Blood๐Ÿ“—
Actual Grace and Sanctifying Grace๐Ÿ“•
The Necessity of Final Perseverance๐Ÿ“•
Semi-PelagianismโŒ
JansenismโŒ
De Auxiliis Controversy๐Ÿงฉ
The Sacramental Character๐Ÿ“•
The Epiclesis and the Words of Institution๐Ÿ“•
The Validity of Anglican Orders๐Ÿ“—
Annulments๐Ÿ“—
Communion on the Tongue vs. in the Hand๐Ÿ“’โ›ช
Ad Orientem Worshipโ›ช
The Binding Force of the Ordinary Magisterium๐Ÿ“•โ›ช
Subsistit In๐Ÿ“’
Vatican II as Pastoral vs. Dogmatic Council๐Ÿ“’
Hermeneutic of Continuity๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ”€
Hermeneutic of Rupture๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ”€
Sensus Fidei๐Ÿ“—
Collegiality of Bishops๐Ÿ“—โ›ช
ConciliarismโŒ๐Ÿ”€
The Three Fonts of Morality๐Ÿ“•
ProportionalismโŒ
Amoris Laetitia Chapter 8 and Footnote 351๐Ÿงฉ
The Universal Destination of Goods๐Ÿ“—
Just War Theory๐Ÿ“—
Capital Punishment๐Ÿ“—๐Ÿ“’
Natural Family Planning๐Ÿ“—
MillenarianismโŒ
Properties of the Glorified Body๐Ÿ“’
Cosmic Eschatology๐Ÿ“—
The Intermediate State of the Soul๐Ÿ“—๐Ÿ“’
Thomism๐Ÿ”€๐Ÿ“š
Scotism๐Ÿ”€
Molinism๐Ÿ”€
The Crossing
Divine Simplicity and the Problem of Predication๐Ÿ“’
The Doctrine of Mixed Relations๐Ÿ“’
Open TheismโŒ
Process TheologyโŒ
Apophatic Theology๐Ÿ“’
Rahner's Rule๐Ÿ“’
Persona and Hypostasis controversy๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ›
Active and Passive Spiration๐Ÿ“•
Enhypostasia๐Ÿ“•
Alexandrian Christology๐Ÿ”€
Antiochene Christology๐Ÿ”€
The Communicatio Idiomatum๐Ÿ“•
The Agony in the Garden and Dyothelitism๐Ÿ“•
Christ's Infused Knowledge (Scientia Infusa)๐Ÿ“—
Real Distinction vs. Formal Distinction๐Ÿ“’
Haecceity๐Ÿ“’
TraducianismโŒ
The Ontological Status of Separated Souls Before the Resurrection๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿงฉ
The Desiderium Naturale๐Ÿ“•
Mary's Role in the Hypostatic Order๐Ÿ“•
Kolbe's Quasi-Hypostatic Union of Mary and the Holy Spirit๐Ÿ“’
Mary and the Magnificat as Eschatological Type๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ“š
The Mass as True Sacrifice๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ›
Re-Presentation of Christ's Sacrifice๐Ÿ“•
The Lumen Gloriae๐Ÿ“—
Adam Had Sanctifying Grace Before the Fall๐Ÿ“—
The Five Jansenist PropositionsโŒ
Quesnel's PropositionsโŒ
Elevating Grace and Healing Grace๐Ÿ“•
DonatismโŒ
The Sacramental Character in Excommunicated Priests
Metaphysical Requirements of Transubstantiation๐Ÿ“•
Mystagogical Catechesis๐Ÿ“—โ›ช
Newman's Seven Notes of Genuine Doctrinal Development๐Ÿ“—
Whether Doctrinal Development is Growth or Explication๐Ÿ“’
GallicanismโŒ
FebronianismโŒ
The Church as Sacrament of Salvation๐Ÿ“•
LaxismโŒ
Formal vs. Material Cooperation in Evil๐Ÿ“—
The Principle of Totality and Organ Donation๐Ÿ“—
The Nature of Purgatorial Suffering๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿงฉ
The New Earth and Cosmic Transformation๐Ÿ“—
Whether Eternal Life is Duration or Participation in God's Eternity๐Ÿ“—๐Ÿ“’
The Three Ways๐Ÿ“—
Infused vs. Acquired Contemplation๐Ÿ“’
Whether All Are Called to Mystical Union๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿงฉ
QuietismโŒ๐Ÿ”€
The Sanctuary
God as Ipsum Esse Subsistens๐Ÿ“•
Esse as Actus Essendi๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ“š
Baรฑezianism๐Ÿ“’
The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents๐Ÿงฉ
Richard of St. Victor's Condilectus๐Ÿ“’
Boethius's Definition of Person and Its Trinitarian Limits๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿงฉ
Gregory of Nyssa's Unity of Divine Operations Ad Extra๐Ÿ“—
Theandric Energy๐Ÿ“—
Maximus; The Logos Contains the Logoi of All Things๐Ÿ“—๐Ÿ“’
Scotist Absolute Predestination of Christ๐Ÿ“’
The Role of the Resurrection in Justification๐Ÿ“—
Bonaventure's Universal Hylomorphism๐Ÿ“’
Spiritual Matter๐Ÿ“—
The Ontological Incompleteness of the Separated Soul๐Ÿ“—
The Obediential Potency of Human Nature for the Supernatural๐Ÿ“—๐Ÿงฉ
Mary's Assumption as Anticipation of Universal Resurrection๐Ÿ“—๐Ÿ“’
Whether Christ's Satisfaction Was Strictly Infinite or Only Morally Infinite๐Ÿงฉ
Karl Rahner's The Supernatural Existential๐Ÿ“’
Rahner's Anonymous ChristianityโŒ
Whether Sanctifying Grace and the Indwelling of the Trinity Are Identical๐Ÿงฉ
De Lubac on Natural Desire๐Ÿ“’
Pseudo-Dionysius's Sacramental Theology๐Ÿ“’
Whether Aristotelian Metaphysics is Necessary or Merely Useful for Transubstantiation๐Ÿงฉ
Concelebration and Its Theological Meaning vs. Individual Mass๐Ÿงฉ
Pseudo-Dionysius's Ecclesiastical Hierarchy๐Ÿ“’
The Church as Mystici Corporis๐Ÿ“—
Theological differences in Eastern Catholic Churches and Eastern Orthodox๐Ÿงฉ
Dominus Iesus and Ecumenism๐Ÿงฉโ›ช
The Relationship Between Universal Church and Particular Church๐Ÿ“—
Newman's Toast to Conscience๐Ÿ“’
The Question of Religious Liberty๐Ÿงฉ
Hans Urs von Balthasar's 'Dare We Hope?'๐Ÿ“’
Hell as Self-Exclusion vs. Positive Punishment๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿงฉ
Gregory of Nyssa's Epektasis๐Ÿ“—
The Eschatological Vision of Gaudium et Spes๐Ÿ“—
Whether Von Balthasar's Hope is Heretical or Merely Theologoumenon๐Ÿงฉ
Theoria๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ”€
Hesychasm๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ”€
The Dark Night๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ”€๐Ÿ“š
Rhineland Mysticism๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ”€
Julian of Norwich: "All Shall Be Well"๐Ÿ“’
Julian's Theology of the Motherhood of God in Christ๐Ÿ“’
Teresa of รvila's Seven Dwelling Places๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ”€
Evagrius's Origenist PropositionsโŒ
Divine Darkness๐Ÿ“—
The Sacristy
Esse as Actus Actuum๐Ÿ“’
Whether "God Exists" is a Tautology๐Ÿงฉ
Whether Divine Simplicity Entails That God Is Identical to His Act of Willing๐Ÿงฉ
Whether Language About God is Univocal, Equivocal, or Analogical๐Ÿงฉ
Eckhart's PropositionsโŒ
Von Balthasar's Theo-Drama๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ”€
Whether Divine Processions Require Analogies in Creation๐Ÿงฉ
Whether the Incarnation is the Grammar of All Creation๐Ÿงฉ
The Logoi of All Things Recapitulated in the Logos๐Ÿ“’
The Resurrection Body as Metaphysical Revelation About Matter๐Ÿงฉ
Creation as Participation in Esse๐Ÿ“’
Whether the Natural Desire for God Proves or Merely Fits the Beatific Vision๐Ÿงฉ
The Eschatological Identity of the Human Person๐Ÿงฉ
The Beatific Vision as Direct Intellectual Intuition of the Divine Essence๐Ÿ“—
Whether Union with God Means Identity or Participation๐Ÿ“’โŒ๐Ÿงฉ
The Ultimate Ground of Predestination๐Ÿงฉ
Whether in Heaven the Creator-Creature Distinction is Preserved๐Ÿ“—
The Full Taxonomy of Theological Notes๐Ÿ“—โ›ช
The Degree of Assent Required for Each Level of Magisterial Teaching๐Ÿ“—
Whether the Pope Can Teach Heresy Privately๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿงฉ
Origen's ApokatastasisโŒ
Gregory of Nyssa's Apokatastasis๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿงฉ
Von Balthasar's Whether Hell Must Be Populated or Merely Possible๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿงฉ
The Passive Night of the Spirit๐Ÿ“’
Meister Eckhart's Abgeschiedenheit and Gelassenheit๐Ÿ“’
Eckhart's The Spark of the Soul (Seelenfรผnklein)๐Ÿ“’โŒ
Whether Mystical Union is Primarily Cognitive, Affective, or Ontological๐Ÿงฉ
The Apex Mentis๐Ÿงฉ
Whether Palamism and Thomism Are Compatible๐Ÿงฉ
Barlaam's Position on God's KnowabilityโŒ
The Foundation
Cusa's God as the Coincidence of Opposites๐Ÿ“’
Whether Apophatic Theology Reaches God or Only Dismantles Our Concepts of Him๐Ÿงฉ
Meister Eckhart's GottheitโŒ
The Super-Essential Darkness๐Ÿ“’
Aquinas' Ego Sum Qui Sum as the Proper Name of God (Exodus 3:14)๐Ÿ“’
Cusa's Posse Ipsum as Ultimate Name of God๐Ÿ“’
Whether Language About God is Ultimately Possible or Whether All Theology Points to Silence๐Ÿงฉ
Eckhart on the Soul's Return to the Grund๐Ÿ“’โŒ
Bonaventure's The Father as Fecund Source๐Ÿ“’
Whether Creaturely Analogies for the Trinity Reveal or Merely Point๐Ÿงฉ
Eckhart's The Grunt of the Soul and the Grunt of the Godhead as One๐Ÿ“’โŒ
Origen's Pre-Existence of SoulsโŒ
Evagrius Ponticus's The Soul's Return to Pure Intellection๐Ÿ“’
Every Creature Holds Being by Reception, Not by Right๐Ÿ“’
Whether the Monitum on Teilhard Constitutes Condemnation or Warning๐Ÿงฉ
Meister Eckhart's Durchbruch๐Ÿ“’โŒ
The Beguine Mystics and Their Contested Status๐Ÿงฉ
The Controversy Over the Spiritual Canticle๐Ÿงฉ
Whether the Mystic's Silence at the Summit is an Epistemological or Ontological Event๐Ÿงฉ
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