Scotus Academicus, Tomus decimus: De Baptismo, De Poenitentia, De Extrema Unctione

Name: Scotus Academicus, Tomus decimus: De Baptismo, De Poenitentia, De Extrema Unctione
Author: Claude Frassen

First published 1902

The tenth volume of Claudius Frassen's Scotus Academicus in the Roman edition of 1902 (Editio nova, Ex Typographia Sallustiana), containing the first treatise of the fourth book: the sacraments instituted and ordained as a remedy for sin, namely baptism, penance with its appendix on public penance, and extreme unction. The Latin follows the printed page; the English is an original translation.

Tractatus I: On the sacraments instituted and ordained as a remedy for sin

Disputatio I: On the sacrament of baptism

Articulus I: On the institution and nature of the sacrament of baptism

Quaestio I: Whether the baptism of John was the same as the baptism of Christ, and had power to remit sins

Quaestio II: What baptism is, when it was instituted, and when it began to be under a precept

Quaestio III: How many kinds of baptism there are

Quaestio IV: What is the remote matter of baptism, namely water

Quaestio V: What the proximate matter of baptism is, and of what sort

Quaestio VI: What is the lawful form of baptism

Articulus II: On the minister and the subject of baptism

Quaestio I: Who is a fit minister of baptism

Quaestio II: Who are bound to receive baptism, and in what way

Quaestio III: Whether it is lawful validly and licitly to baptize the infants of unbelievers who do not yet have the use of reason, against the will of their parents

Quaestio IV: What prior dispositions are required in an adult so that he receive baptism validly and rightly

Articulus III: On the effects of baptism, and the rites customarily observed in its solemn administration

Quaestio I: How baptism remits sin and the penalties due to it, and confers grace

Quaestio II: On the rites and ceremonies customarily observed in the solemn administration of baptism

Disputatio II: On the virtue and the sacrament of penance

Articulus I: On the essence, necessity and efficacy of the virtue of penance

Sectio I: On the nature of the virtue of penance

Quaestio I: What penance is

Quaestio II: Of what sort penance is, and to which of the virtues it is reduced

Quaestio III: What is the object of penance

Quaestio IV: What is the subject, both immediate and mediate, of the virtue of penance

Sectio II: On the necessity of penance

Quaestio I: Whether, and for what reason, the virtue of penance is necessary to the sinner for obtaining salvation

Quaestio II: Whether there is any precept about doing penance, and when it must be fulfilled

Sectio III: On the efficacy of the virtue of penance

Quaestio I: Whether all mortal sins, however grave, can be remitted through penance

Quaestio II: By what means, and in what way, venial sin is remitted both in this life and after death

Quaestio III: Whether, the guilt of mortal and venial sin being remitted through penance, the debt of temporal punishment remains, and how it can be paid

Quaestio IV: Whether, and in what way, meritorious works slain by sin revive by the power of penance

Quaestio V: Whether sins once remitted through penance revive through a subsequent sin and are imputed again, both as to guilt and as to punishment

Articulus II: On the sacrament of penance

Quaestio I: Whether penance is a sacrament distinct from the others, and at what time it was instituted by Christ the Lord

Quaestio II: What is the matter of the sacrament of penance

Quaestio III: What is the form of the sacrament of penance

Quaestio IV: Whether the form of absolution can validly be spoken in deprecative words, and under a condition

Quaestio V: What is the effect of priestly absolution, or how it remits the debt of guilt and of punishment

Articulus III: On the parts of penance in particular

Sectio I: On contrition

Quaestio I: What contrition is, and of what sort

Quaestio II: In what way, and when, contrition has the power and efficacy of remitting sins

Quaestio III: In what way contrition ought to detest sins

Quaestio IV: What imperfect contrition, or attrition, is, and how it contributes to the remission of sin

Sectio II: On sacramental confession

Quaestio I: Whether confession of sins is necessary, and in what way

Quaestio II: Whether confession must be made by the command of the Church, by whom, and about what

Quaestio III: Of what sort confession ought to be in order to be perfect

Quaestio IV: Who ought to be the minister of the sacrament, and of what sort, to whom confession must be made

Articulus IV: On sacramental satisfaction

Quaestio I: Whether a man can and ought to make satisfaction to God for the temporal punishment due to sin