De Ecclesia Christi

Name: De Ecclesia Christi
Author: Johannes Baptist Franzelin

De Ecclesia Christi. Opus posthumum, praemissa de eiusdem vita commentario

First published 1887

Franzelin's De Ecclesia Christi, the posthumous 1887 Roman edition of his theses on the Church, with English translation. The biographical front matter and the Index thesium are not included.

§ I: The introductory treatise on the Church of God considered generally; the Church of the Old Testament and its institutions in relation to the New Testament; the notion and distinction of the threefold power

Thesis I: On the meaning of the name « Church »

Thesis II: On the Church of God considered in the widest notion of the communion of saints

Thesis III: On the still imperfect state, and the state to be perfected, of the Church of the old economy

Thesis IV: On the manifold difference of the institutions of the Old Testament in relation to the Church of the New Testament

Thesis V: The distinction of the threefold power in the Church is declared

§ II: On the revealed fact of the institution and constitution of the Church of Jesus Christ

Caput I: The institution of the Church of Jesus Christ in its preparation and beginning

Thesis I: The institution of the Church foretold and described in the prophecy of the Old Testament

Thesis II: In the Gospels the kingdom of God is announced: the kingdom of Jesus Christ, to be founded on earth in its own proper constitution and form

Thesis III: The proximate preparation and beginning of the institution of the Church

Caput II: The institution and constitution of the visible Church, completed by Christ in its epiphanies before his Ascension into heaven

Thesis I: On the office of the Apostles, declared and instituted at the first appearance of Christ

Thesis II: On the institution of the kingdom of Jesus Christ upon earth, according to the form of monarchy, at his third appearance

Thesis III: On the propagation of the ecclesiastical monarchy and on the perpetual succession in the first see of Peter

Scholion I: On the manner in which the great schism of the West was ended at the Council of Constance

Thesis IV: Further explanation of the doctrine on the union of the primacy with the Roman See

Thesis V: On the distinction between the See and the one sitting in the Apostolic See

Caput III: The constitution of the Church under the apostles and in the age immediately following

Thesis I: The Church, as constituted by the Apostles, shows in itself the same form that was instituted by Christ

Thesis II: The ascent of the power instituted in the Apostles into the hierarchy

Thesis III: On the names of Bishop and Presbyter in the sacred apostolic writings

§ III: The Church of Jesus Christ considered in its relations to its divine founder

Thesis I: The Church of Jesus Christ considered in the work of redemption, as in its efficient and meritorious cause

Thesis II: On the Church as the bride and mystical body of Christ

Thesis III: The incarnate Word is in many ways the exemplar to which the Church of Christ is conformed

Scholion I: Augustine's interpretation is maintained: the double resurrection described in Apoc. c. XXI

Thesis IV: The glory of Christ is the end of the Church

§ IV: On the properties of the Church

Paragraph I: On the visibility of the Church of Christ on earth

Thesis I: The visibility of the Church in the unchangeable institution of Christ

Scholion I: The follies of the Protestants against this doctrine

Paragraph II: On the members of the Church of Jesus Christ

Thesis I: On the conditions necessary for union with the Church, the lack of which excludes a man from the roll of the members of the Church

Thesis II: The reasons by which persons attached to some sect, excommunicated, or finally catechumens are referred to the Church are explained more distinctly

Thesis III: On union with the Church as a necessary means to justification and salvation

Thesis IV: Sinners are not excluded from the roll of the members of the Church of Christ

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