De immutabilitate traditionis contra modernam haeresim evolutionismi

Louis Billot

De immutabilitate traditionis contra modernam haeresim evolutionismi

Louis Billot (1846–1931)

First published 1907

Louis Billot's De immutabilitate traditionis contra modernam haeresim evolutionismi, second edition (Rome, 1907). The edition prints the title page, Prooemium, six chapters with their numbered theses, the Index and the Approbatio. The separately titled De inspiratione sacrae Scripturae (1906), bound before it in the same volume, is excluded.

Title Page

ON THE IMMUTABILITY OF TRADITION AGAINST THE MODERN HERESY OF EVOLUTIONISM

BY

Louis Billot S. J.

IN THE PONTIFICAL GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY

PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY

Second edition, augmented and corrected

ROME

FROM THE PONTIFICAL PRESS OF THE INSTITUTE OF PIUS IX

MDCCCCVII

Proem

Capitulum I: Chapter One — On the Catholic Concept of Sacred Tradition

Sectio I: § 1. — That the Authentic Organ of Tradition Was Instituted by Jesus Christ in His Church, Namely the Apostolic Hierarchy with Which He Promised to Be Present unto the End of the Ages.

Sectio II: § 2. — That Tradition, Taken in Its True and Catholic Sense, Is the Rule of Faith.

Sectio III: § 3. — That Tradition Is Prior to Scripture as the Rule of Faith, Both in Order of Time and in Order of Knowledge and Comprehension

Sectio IV: § 4. — That from What Has Been Said It Follows That Tradition Has Indeed a Certain Evolution in the Course of Time, but One Joined with Complete Immutability and Consensus in the Same Dogma and the Same Sense

Capitulum II: Chapter Two — On the Cause of Apparent Oppositions in the Testimonies of Tradition

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Capitulum III: Chapter Three — On the Vice of the Historical Method in the Crisis of the Monuments of Tradition

Sectio I: § 1. — That the Historical Method, in Opposition to the Method of Immanence, Is the Only Legitimate Method in the Preambles of Faith, When What Must Be Proved Is the Fact of Revelation

Sectio II: § 2. — That the Historical Method, in Opposition to the Theological Method, Is Not Only Wholly Insufficient and Disproportionate but Also Productive of Errors of Every Kind

Capitulum IV: Chapter Four — On the Error of Relative Truth in the Dogmas of Tradition

Sectio I: § 1. — That the Concept of Relative Truth Is Absurd in Itself, and That Apart from the Definition Consecrated by Ancient Philosophy, Namely the Adequation of Intellect and Thing, No Other Notion of Truth Is Admissible.

Sectio II: § 2. — That the Dogmas of Our Religion Are Truly and Properly from Heaven, and Therefore They Would Still Resist the Notion of Relative Truth Even If They Were Not Elsewhere Marked by Contradictory and Mutually Conflicting Notes.

Sectio III: § 3. — That for the Defense of Their Error They Vainly Appeal to Notions or Doctrines Which They Say Were Imported from Profane Schools into Sacred Doctrine, or to Past Adaptations of Theology to Philosophy, Especially Aristotelian Philosophy, Which They Invent.

Capitulum V: Chapter Five — On the Consummation of Ruin through Moral Dogmatism

Sectio I: § 1. — That Moral Dogmatism Vainly Seeks a Means of Restoration on the Side of the Will, to Which It Ineptly Attributes Primacy in the Business of Acquiring and Knowing Religious Truth.

Sectio II: § 2. — That Moral Dogmatism Not Only Does Not Restore the Collapsed Building of Truth by Setting the Will for the Good as Principle and Foundation, but Heaps Ruin upon Ruin

Sectio III: § 3. — That Moral Dogmatism Consummates the Irreparable Destruction of the Truth of Faith by Proclaiming the Purely Practical Value of the Dogmas of Religion

Capitulum VI: Chapter Six — On the Heap of Errors in the System of the Living Faith

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Index

Approbation of the Work

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