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Catholic Theology Iceberg
I have opted to not mark the definition sources for the early layers as thoroughly due to the redundancy in doing so
Theology Proper
Trinitarian Theology
Christology
Creation & Anthropology
Mariology
Soteriology
Grace & Justification
Sacramentology
Ecclesiology
Moral Theology
Eschatology
Mystical Theology
Other
The Façade
Existence of God📕
Omnipotence📕
Omniscience📕
Eternality📕
The Holy Trinity📕
God the Father📕
God the Son📕
God the Holy Spirit📕
Jesus is the Son of God📕
The Virgin Birth📕
The Crucifixion📕
The Resurrection📕
The Ascension into Heaven📕
The Second Coming📕
God Created the World📕
Adam and Eve📕
The Fall📕
The Human Soul📕
Angels📕
Demons📕
The Devil📕
Mary, Mother of God📕
Mary, The Blessed Virgin📕
Jesus Died For Our Sins📕
Salvation📕
Heaven📕
Hell📕
Baptism📕
Eucharist📕
Marriage📕
Confession📕
Holy Orders📕
Confirmation📕
The Church📕
The Pope📕
The Parish⛪
The Priesthood⛪
The Ten Commandments📕
The Golden Rule📗
Sin📕
Forgiveness📕
The Last Judgement📕
Eternal Life📕
The Narthex
God's Existence Knowable by Reason Alone📕🏛
Divine Providence📕
Divine Mercy📕
Divine Immutability📕
Consubstantiality of the Persons📕🏛
The Filioque📕🏛
Arianism❌
Modalism❌
Tritheism❌
The Hypostatic Union📕🏛
The Descent into Hell📕
Docetism❌
Nestorianism❌
Monophysitism❌
Creation Ex Nihilo📕
The Immortality of the Soul📕
Original Sin📕
The Imago Dei📕
Theistic Evolution📒🧩📚
Guardian Angels📕
Fallen Angels📕
The Immaculate Conception📕🗝
Theotokos📕🏛
Perpetual Virginity📕
The Assumption📕🗝
Necessity of Grace📕
Ransom Theory of Atonement📒
Satisfaction Theory of Atonement📒
Justification by Faith📕
Pelagianism❌
Sola Fide❌
Sola Scriptura ❌
Transubstantiation📕
Ex Opere Operato📕
Anointing of the Sick📕
Baptism of Desire📗
Vetus Ordo Mass⛪
The Four Marks of the Church📕
Apostolic Succession📕
Papal Infallibility📕
Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition📕
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus📕📒
SSPX📒🔀
Sedevacantism❌🔀
Natural Law📕
Intrinsic Evil📕
The Principle of Double Effect📗
Contraception Banned📕🗝
Purgatory📕
The Particular Judgement📕
The Resurrection of the Body📕
The Limbo of the Infants📒🧩📚
The Limbo of the Fathers📕
Indulgences📕
The Four Last Things📕
The Nave
Divine Simplicity📕
Divine Aseity📕
Analogia Entis📗📚
Divine Impassibility📕
Tota Simul📗📚
Eternal Generation of the Son📕
Procession of the Holy Spirit📕
Perichoresis📕
The Psychological Analogy of the Trinity📒
Social Trinity Models📒
Dyothelitism📕🏛
Monothelitism❌
Christ's Beatific Vision During His Earthly Life📗
The Impeccability of Christ📕
Kenotic Christology❌
Whether the Incarnation Would Have Occurred Without the Fall📒
The Soul as Form of the Body📕
The Preternatural Gifts of Adam📕
Monogenism📗
The State of Pure Nature (Natura Pura)📒
Concupiscence as Wound, Not Sin📕
Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces📒
Mary as Co-Redemptrix📒
Mary as the New Eve📗
Mary as New Ark of the Covenant📗
Maximalist vs. Minimalist Mariology📒
Christus Victor Theory of Atonement📒
Deification/Divinization📗
Recapitulation Theory📒
Baptism of Blood📗
Actual Grace and Sanctifying Grace📕
The Necessity of Final Perseverance📕
Semi-Pelagianism❌
Jansenism❌
De Auxiliis Controversy🧩
The Sacramental Character📕
The Epiclesis and the Words of Institution📕
The Validity of Anglican Orders📗
Annulments📗
Communion on the Tongue vs. in the Hand📒⛪
Ad Orientem Worship⛪
The Binding Force of the Ordinary Magisterium📕⛪
Subsistit In📒
Vatican II as Pastoral vs. Dogmatic Council📒
Hermeneutic of Continuity📒🔀
Hermeneutic of Rupture📒🔀
Sensus Fidei📗
Collegiality of Bishops📗⛪
Conciliarism❌🔀
The Three Fonts of Morality📕
Proportionalism❌
Amoris Laetitia Chapter 8 and Footnote 351🧩
The Universal Destination of Goods📗
Just War Theory📗
Capital Punishment📗📒
Natural Family Planning📗
Millenarianism❌
Properties of the Glorified Body📒
Cosmic Eschatology📗
The Intermediate State of the Soul📗📒
Thomism🔀📚
Scotism🔀
Molinism🔀
The Crossing
Divine Simplicity and the Problem of Predication📒
The Doctrine of Mixed Relations📒
Open Theism❌
Process Theology❌
Apophatic Theology📒
Rahner's Rule📒
Persona and Hypostasis controversy📕🏛
Active and Passive Spiration📕
Enhypostasia📕
Alexandrian Christology🔀
Antiochene Christology🔀
The Communicatio Idiomatum📕
The Agony in the Garden and Dyothelitism📕
Christ's Infused Knowledge (Scientia Infusa)📗
Real Distinction vs. Formal Distinction📒
Haecceity📒
Traducianism❌
The Ontological Status of Separated Souls Before the Resurrection📒🧩
The Desiderium Naturale📕
Mary's Role in the Hypostatic Order📕
Kolbe's Quasi-Hypostatic Union of Mary and the Holy Spirit📒
Mary and the Magnificat as Eschatological Type📒📚
The Mass as True Sacrifice📕🏛
Re-Presentation of Christ's Sacrifice📕
The Lumen Gloriae📗
Adam Had Sanctifying Grace Before the Fall📗
The Five Jansenist Propositions❌
Quesnel's Propositions❌
Elevating Grace and Healing Grace📕
Donatism❌
The Sacramental Character in Excommunicated Priests
Metaphysical Requirements of Transubstantiation📕
Mystagogical Catechesis📗⛪
Newman's Seven Notes of Genuine Doctrinal Development📗
Whether Doctrinal Development is Growth or Explication📒
Gallicanism❌
Febronianism❌
The Church as Sacrament of Salvation📕
Laxism❌
Formal vs. Material Cooperation in Evil📗
The Principle of Totality and Organ Donation📗
The Nature of Purgatorial Suffering📒🧩
The New Earth and Cosmic Transformation📗
Whether Eternal Life is Duration or Participation in God's Eternity📗📒
The Three Ways📗
Infused vs. Acquired Contemplation📒
Whether All Are Called to Mystical Union📒🧩
Quietism❌🔀
The Sanctuary
God as Ipsum Esse Subsistens📕
Esse as Actus Essendi📒📚
Bañezianism📒
The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents🧩
Richard of St. Victor's Condilectus📒
Boethius's Definition of Person and Its Trinitarian Limits📒🧩
Gregory of Nyssa's Unity of Divine Operations Ad Extra📗
Theandric Energy📗
Maximus; The Logos Contains the Logoi of All Things📗📒
Scotist Absolute Predestination of Christ📒
The Role of the Resurrection in Justification📗
Bonaventure's Universal Hylomorphism📒
Spiritual Matter📗
The Ontological Incompleteness of the Separated Soul📗
The Obediential Potency of Human Nature for the Supernatural📗🧩
Mary's Assumption as Anticipation of Universal Resurrection📗📒
Whether Christ's Satisfaction Was Strictly Infinite or Only Morally Infinite🧩
Karl Rahner's The Supernatural Existential📒
Rahner's Anonymous Christianity❌
Whether Sanctifying Grace and the Indwelling of the Trinity Are Identical🧩
De Lubac on Natural Desire📒
Pseudo-Dionysius's Sacramental Theology📒
Whether Aristotelian Metaphysics is Necessary or Merely Useful for Transubstantiation🧩
Concelebration and Its Theological Meaning vs. Individual Mass🧩
Pseudo-Dionysius's Ecclesiastical Hierarchy📒
The Church as Mystici Corporis📗
Theological differences in Eastern Catholic Churches and Eastern Orthodox🧩
Dominus Iesus and Ecumenism🧩⛪
The Relationship Between Universal Church and Particular Church📗
Newman's Toast to Conscience📒
The Question of Religious Liberty🧩
Hans Urs von Balthasar's 'Dare We Hope?'📒
Hell as Self-Exclusion vs. Positive Punishment📒🧩
Gregory of Nyssa's Epektasis📗
The Eschatological Vision of Gaudium et Spes📗
Whether Von Balthasar's Hope is Heretical or Merely Theologoumenon🧩
Theoria📒🔀
Hesychasm📒🔀
The Dark Night📒🔀📚
Rhineland Mysticism📒🔀
Julian of Norwich: "All Shall Be Well"📒
Julian's Theology of the Motherhood of God in Christ📒
Teresa of Ávila's Seven Dwelling Places📒🔀
Evagrius's Origenist Propositions❌
Divine Darkness📗
The Sacristy
Esse as Actus Actuum📒
Whether "God Exists" is a Tautology🧩
Whether Divine Simplicity Entails That God Is Identical to His Act of Willing🧩
Whether Language About God is Univocal, Equivocal, or Analogical🧩
Eckhart's Propositions❌
Von Balthasar's Theo-Drama📒🔀
Whether Divine Processions Require Analogies in Creation🧩
Whether the Incarnation is the Grammar of All Creation🧩
The Logoi of All Things Recapitulated in the Logos📒
The Resurrection Body as Metaphysical Revelation About Matter🧩
Creation as Participation in Esse📒
Whether the Natural Desire for God Proves or Merely Fits the Beatific Vision🧩
The Eschatological Identity of the Human Person🧩
The Beatific Vision as Direct Intellectual Intuition of the Divine Essence📗
Whether Union with God Means Identity or Participation📒❌🧩
The Ultimate Ground of Predestination🧩
Whether in Heaven the Creator-Creature Distinction is Preserved📗
The Full Taxonomy of Theological Notes📗⛪
The Degree of Assent Required for Each Level of Magisterial Teaching📗
Whether the Pope Can Teach Heresy Privately📒🧩
Origen's Apokatastasis❌
Gregory of Nyssa's Apokatastasis📒🧩
Von Balthasar's Whether Hell Must Be Populated or Merely Possible📒🧩
The Passive Night of the Spirit📒
Meister Eckhart's Abgeschiedenheit and Gelassenheit📒
Eckhart's The Spark of the Soul (Seelenfünklein)📒❌
Whether Mystical Union is Primarily Cognitive, Affective, or Ontological🧩
The Apex Mentis🧩
Whether Palamism and Thomism Are Compatible🧩
Barlaam's Position on God's Knowability❌
The Foundation
Cusa's God as the Coincidence of Opposites📒
Whether Apophatic Theology Reaches God or Only Dismantles Our Concepts of Him🧩
Meister Eckhart's Gottheit❌
The Super-Essential Darkness📒
Aquinas' Ego Sum Qui Sum as the Proper Name of God (Exodus 3:14)📒
Cusa's Posse Ipsum as Ultimate Name of God📒
Whether Language About God is Ultimately Possible or Whether All Theology Points to Silence🧩
Eckhart on the Soul's Return to the Grund📒❌
Bonaventure's The Father as Fecund Source📒
Whether Creaturely Analogies for the Trinity Reveal or Merely Point🧩
Eckhart's The Grunt of the Soul and the Grunt of the Godhead as One📒❌
Origen's Pre-Existence of Souls❌
Evagrius Ponticus's The Soul's Return to Pure Intellection📒
Every Creature Holds Being by Reception, Not by Right📒
Whether the Monitum on Teilhard Constitutes Condemnation or Warning🧩
Meister Eckhart's Durchbruch📒❌
The Beguine Mystics and Their Contested Status🧩
The Controversy Over the Spiritual Canticle🧩
Whether the Mystic's Silence at the Summit is an Epistemological or Ontological Event🧩