Francis Suarez in English & on his Thought

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Order of Contents

Reformed Commendations  15
In English  7
Life  2
On his Thought  10+


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Reformed Commendations on Reading Parts of Suarez & Positive Citations of Him

Order of

Commendations
.     Quotes  8
.     Latin  1
Positive Citations  6


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Commendations

Quotes

Order of

Rutherford
Voet

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1600’s

Samuel Rutherford

A Peaceable & Temperate Plea…  (London: 1644), ch. 8, sect. 8, ‘Of Election of Officers’, pp. 186-87

“5th Distinction: The substance and essence of ordination (as we shall after hear) consists in the appointing of such for the holy ministery by persons in office.  All the corrupt rites added to this by Papists take not away the essence and nature of ordination…

See that variations may be in a sacrament, and yet such as make not the sacrament invalid, in Sotus, Suarez (in 3rd part, disp. 2, sect 5), Vasquez, Joannes de Lugo, Scotus.”

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Gisbert Voet

Select Theological Disputations, vol. 1, pt. 2  tr. by AI by Onku  (Utrecht: Johannes a Waesberg, 1648)  Latin

‘First Part of the Appendix on the Adoration of Christ as Mediator’, p. 95

“In the question concerning the right of God, a distinction is adduced through τὸ ‘as Lord’, and ‘as judge’.  See [Hugo] Grotius, On Satisfaction, pp. 42-43, 8 vo edition, and Joh. Junius in the refutation of the lectures of [Faustus] Socinus, ch. 16, pp. 563-64.  Thus Suarez On Laws, bk. 2, ch. 6, through the distinction of God as legislator and as Lord, explains the right of dispensing in the natural law.”

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‘Concerning Creation’, p. 110

“8. The mode of creation is explained by us with these adjuncts…

3. It is not formally the divine volition, nor the relation of Creator to creature, but it is God Himself creating, denominated by way of principle from Himself and active outside Himself.  See Thomas with his own ST, pt. 1, q. 45, articles 2 and 3.

But [the act of] creation passively taken is something in the created thing, not really as [yet] having its own entity, but distinguished from it ex natura rei [from the nature of the thing] as its mode.  See Suárez, Metaphysical Disputations, disp. 20, sect. 5, and Thomas in the Disputed Questions on Creation, art. 3.”

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‘Concerning Creation’, pt. 3, p. 152

“7. [Question:] Whether form is [1] something accidental, and [2] whether the whole essence of a thing, and consequently the only essential part of a composite?  We deny both, with all the sounder philosophers.  See Suárez, the Coimbrans, Ruvio;”

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‘On Creation’, p. 9

p. 273

“But we respond: First, by all the reasons by which the philosophers prove that all matter in general, even of an animal, constitutes the essence of a thing and not only the form; also that from matter and form one thing per se comes to be.  See Suárez, Ruvius, the Coimbrans, the Disputation on Matter and Form.”

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p. 280

“…nevertheless we think it must be held that there is only one soul in each man – both on account of the philosophical reasons adduced by the common consent of theologians and philosophers, specifically by the scholastics on Thomas’s first part [of the Summa], question 76, article 3, and Summa contra Gentiles, book 2, chapter 58, by the more recent Coimbrans cited above, Ruvius on the second book of On the Soul, questions 5-7, to whom can be added Suárez, Metaphysical Disputations, 13, section 3 and [disp.] 16, section 10, where he disputes that of one thing there is given only one form, and Eustachius a Sancto Paulo in his Summa Philosophiae, p. 173.

From our theologians, Zanchi, bk. 2, chapter 3, does the same extensively and solidly.  And Polanus compendiously in his Syntagma, book 5, chapter 32.”

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‘On Creation’, pt. 8, ‘On the Natures of Things & Substantial Forms’, pp. 372-73

“3. The reasons which are usually brought forward by the assertors of forms [of things] must first be thoroughly known, then clearly and solidly solved.  To this end some one of the more recent physical or metaphysical disputators should be read accurately by the juniors, such as [Francis] Suarez, [Benedict] Pererius, [Jacob] Revius, [Francisco de] Toledo, the [Jesuit] Conimbricenses, the [Spanish] Complutenses [at Alcala], [Rodrigo de] Arriaga, [Francisco de] Mendoza, etc.

Furthermore on the difficulties and manifold disquisition of the philosophers, so that they may explain the mode of origin of forms, consult besides Basson, bk. 3, loc. cit., especially Sennert, Hypomnem. physicor. 1. ch. 3; Suarez, Metaphysical Disputations, 15.”

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‘On the Celestial Hierarchy & Guardian Angels’, p. 377

“Many things are usually inquired about angels in general, and about the good ones in particular, by the common writers of theses and common places.  We now postponing them (because other things are more urgent) will only ventilate two questions for the present about hierarchies and guardian angels.  He who desires the rest, let him go to the writers of common places, and Suarez, bk. 8, On Angels, and the rest of the scholastics on Thomas, [Summa,] pt. 1, but to be read with judgment;”


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Latin Book

1600’s

Revius, Jacobus – Suarez Repurged, or a Syllabus of the Metaphysical Disputations of Francis Suarez, a Theologian of the Society of Jesus, with the Notes of Jacob Revius…  (Leiden: 1644)  1,127 pp.  no ToC  Index

Revius (1586-1658) was a reformed, professor of philosophy at Leiden who was anti-Cartesian.

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Dedicatory Epistle
Introduction  1
Tome 1

1. Nature of First Philosophy, or of Metaphysics  5

1. The Object of Metaphysics  4
2. Texts 13-15  7
3. Whether Metaphysics is Only One Science  8
.    Metaphysics is able to be Defined  9
4. How many are the offices of this science, what are its ends, its utility; where is of its causes.  12
5. Whether metaphysics is perfectly a speculative science, or rather a wisdom  13
6.  Whether out of all the sciences, metaphysics is the most grasped for by man by the natural appetite  18

2. Essential Reason or Concept of Being  21
3. Passions of being in common, & its principles  38
4. Transcendental unity in common  48
5. Individual unity & its principle  67
6. Formal & universal unity  75
7. General varieties of distinctions  98
8. Verity, or truth, that it is a passion of being  109
9. Falsity, or an untruth  123
10. Good, or of transendental goodness  129
11. Evil  140

1. Whether evil may be something in things, & how many kinds there may be?  140
2. How many kinds of evil may there be?  143
3. Where & from where may evil be, or what causes it may have?  147
.      What is the end of evil?  148
.      What is the subjective cause of evil?  150
.      Whether a formal cause may be given to evil?  150
.      As far as the efficient [cause] of evil  151
.      In what way evil may be from the First Cause  154
4. Why evil is not numbered among the attributes of being  155

12. Cause of being in common  156
13. Material cause of substance  170
14. Material cause of accidents  195
15. Formal substantial cause  204
16. Formal accidental cause  230
17. Efficient cause in common  235
18. Proximate efficient cause  242
19. Causes, necessary & free, or of contingent agents, where is of even fate, fortune & chance  262
20. First efficient cause & its first action, which is creation  317
21. First efficient cause, & its other action, which is conservation  339
22. First cause, & another of its actions, which is cooperation, or concursus with secondary causes  345
23. Final cause in common  428
24. Ultimate final cause, or the ultimate end  444
25. Exemplary cause  447
26. Comparison of causes to their effects  482
27. Comparison of causes amongst themselves  496

Tome 2

28. Divisions of being  502
29. God, First Being & uncreated substance, insofar as He is able to be known to a rational nature  517
30. First Being, so far as what and what kind it is, is able to be known to a rational nature  533
[Lots of subdivisions]
31. Essence of finite being, as it is such, and of that being and the distinction of them  687
32. Division of created being into substance and accident  709
33. Created substance in common  714
34. First substance, or of the supposit, and the distinction of it from nature  18
35. Created immaterial substance  766
36. Whether angels impart force when they move  818
[sic] 36. Material substance in common  819
37. Essential rule of an accident in common  823
38. Comparison of an accident to substance  833
39. Division of accident into nine highest genera  834
40. Continuous quantity  843
41. Discrete quantity and coordination of the predicament quantity, and its properties  896
42. Quality and its species in common  905
43. Potency and act  919
44. Habits  925
45. Contrariety of qualities  967
46. Intensification of qualities  974
47. Real relation in common  982


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Positive Citations

Quotes

Order of

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Rutherford
Gillespie
Voet
Cheynell
Mastricht

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1600’s

William Ames

Medulla theologica  (Amsterdam: Janson, 1634), bk. 1, ch. 2, ‘On the Distribution of Theology’, section 6, pp. 4-5  trans. Charles Johnson  This section has been omitted from most English translations (e.g. London, 1642).

“From the remains of these two parts [faith and observance], two theologies sprang forth among some philosophers: metaphysics, and ethics.  For metaphysics is the faith of the Aristotelians, and ethics is their observance.  Hence, both these disciplines present that which teaches the supreme good of man.  This is known to all concerning ethics.

Moreover, concerning metaphysics, which they also call ‘theology,’ this is what Suarez says, Disp. 1, Sect. 5, #43:

‘The blessedness of man consists in the most perfect act of metaphysics.  It contemplates the supreme good and the last end of man simpliciter.  Divine contemplation belongs to this science formally, or elicitively.’

Therefore, when theology is rightly taught in these parts, their metaphysics and ethics disappears without hesitation, after brilliantly testifying to its distribution.”

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Samuel Rutherford

Lex Rex…  (London: Field, 1644), Question 2, ‘Whether or not government be warranted by the Law of nature’, p. 2

“As domestic society is by nature’s instinct, so is civil society natural, in radice, ‘in the root’, and voluntary, in modo, ‘in the manner’ of coalescing.  Politic power of government agrees not to man, singly, as one man, except in that root of reasonable nature; but supposing that men be combined in societies, or that one family cannot contain a society, it is natural that they join in a civil society, though the manner of union in a politic body, as Bodine says, be voluntary, Gen. 10:10; 15:7 and Suarez says (tome 1, On Laws, bk. 3, ch. 3), That a power of making laws is given by God as a property flowing from nature, Qui dat formam, dat consequentia ad formam, Not by any special action or grant different from creation; nor will he have it to result from nature while men be united into one politic body: which union being made, that power follows without any new action of the will.”

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A Peaceable & Temperate Plea…  (London: 1644)

ch. 1, p. 8

“…as David, without immediate revelation from Heaven to direct him, by only the Law of nature, did eat showbread [Mt. 12]; so is the case here, so answer the casuists and the schoolmen, that a positive law may yield in case of necessity, to the good of the Church; so Thomas, Molina, Suarez (On Laws, bk. 2, ch. 15), Vasquez, Vigverius, Sotus, Scotus, Altisiodorensis, Durand, Gabriel…”

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ch. 2, p. 27

“The Fathers, as Augustine, Chrysostom, Ambrose, Jerome; the Schoolmen, as Aquinas, D. Bannez, Suarez (On Faith, Hope & Love, ch. 8, de con.), say, correcting of our brother is (sublevatio miseriae peccantis) ‘a succouring of the misery of a sinner’.”

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George Gillespie

A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, Wednesday, March 27, 1644  (London: Bostock, 1644)

“Schoolmen say that a law, properly so called, is both illuminative and impulsive: illuminative, to inform and direct the judgement; impulsive, to move and apply the will to action. (Suarez, Of Laws, bk. 1, ch. 5; Cospensis curs. Theol tract. 13, disp. 1, sect. 1)

And accordingly there are two names in this text [Eze. 43:11] given to Christ’s laws and institutions: one which imports the instruction and information of our minds: another which signifies a deep imprinting or engraving (and that is made upon our hearts and affections), such as a pen of iron and other instruments could make upon a stone.”

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Aaron’s Rod Blossoming…  (London: 1646), bk. 2, ch. 6, p. 230

“‘But’ says he [Hussey, an Erastian], ‘may they not worship Christ as Mediator?  Yes, doubtless they may.’

[Gillespie’s response:] No doubt He that is Mediator must be worshipped, because He is God; Christ God-man is the object of divine adoration, and his God-head is the cause of that adoration; but whether He is to be worshipped because He is Mediator, or under this formal consideration as Mediator; and whether the Mediator ought to be therefore adored with divine adoration, because He is Mediator, is res altioris indaginis [a thing for deeper investigation].  If Mr. Hussey please to read and consider what diverse Schoolmen have said upon that point, as:

Aquinas, [Summa] third part, quest. 25, art. 1 & 2; Alex. Alensis, Sum. Theol., part 3, quest. 30, member 2; Suarez in the third part of Thomas, disp. 53, sect. 1; Valentia, Comment on Thomas, tome 4, disp. 1, quest. 24, point 1; Tannerus, Scholastic Theology, tome 4, disp. 1, quest. 7, doubt 7.

But much more if he please to read Disputatio de adoratione Christi, habita inter Faustum Socinum & Christianum Francken: and above all Dr. Voetius, Select Disputations, pt. 2, disp. 14, Whether Christ is to be Adored as Mediator?

Then I believe he will be more wary and cautious what he holds concerning that question.”

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Gisbert Voet

Select Theological Disputations, vol. 1, pt. 2  tr. by AI by Onku  (Utrecht: Johannes a Waesberg, 1648)

‘Francis Gomarus’s Treatise on Christ, Autotheos, with Notes’, ‘Notes on the Preceding Diatribe’, p. 30  Latin

“Add, that Possevinus [d. 1611] in his Sacred Apparatus under the entry “Gilbert Genebrard” judges that the no less harsh phrases of Augustine, Jerome and all the other phrases of the fathers, by which they call God the cause of Himself, must be so expounded with Suarez, that He is ‘from Himself’ and ‘Autotheos’, negatively, that is, having being without emanation from another: so that through that negation the positive and simple perfection of that being is declared, which so in itself and in its essence includes existence itself, that it receives it from no one: which perfection that being does not have, which does not have being, unless it receives it from another.”

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Francis Cheynell

The Divine Trinunity…  (London: T.R., 1650), ch. 6, p. 173

“4. If angels had been created from eternity, yet they would not have been essentially or intrinsically eternal, because their essence does not include any repugnancy to an actual beginning. (…See Suarez, Metaphysical Disputation 50, sect. 4, Th. p. 1, quest. 10, art. 2)”

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Peter van Mastricht

Theoretical-Practical Theology  (RHB, 2021), vol. 3, bk. 3, ch. 9, Man & the Image of God, sect. 45, p. 297

“Yet on the contrary, others who are not obscure among the papists, such as Cornelius à Lapide, Agostino Steuco of Gubbio, La Peyrère, Jansen, Ambrosius Catharinus, Suarez, Oleaster, and others, together with the Reformed think that paradise was destroyed in the flood, because…”


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Suarez’s Writings in English

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Order of

Collection
Metaphysics
Six Days
On Laws
Faith, Hope & Charity
Defense against Anglicanism
Religious State

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A Collection of Articles

Penner, Sydney – ‘Suarez in English Translation’  at Sydney Penner

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On Metaphysics

A Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics…  trans. John P. Doyle  (Marquette Univ. Press, 1950)  420 pp.

This is different than Suarez’s Metaphysical Disputations.

Metaphysical Disputations

Metaphysical Disputations  tr. AI  (d. 1617; Paris: Vives, 1877)

vol. 1  Detailed ToC

Preface  i
Plan of Indices  iv
[On the English Translation]  iv
Index on Aristotle  xi
Prologue  clxxvii
1. Nature of First Philosophy, or Metaphysics  1
2. Essential Nature or Concept of Being  153
3. Passions of Being in General & its Principles  249
4. Transcendental Unity in General  281
5. Individual Unity & its Principle  357-492

vol. 2  Detailed ToC

6. Formal & Universal Unity  1
7. Various Kinds of Distinctions  121
8. On Truth or the True, which is a Passion of Being  182
9. On Falsity or the False  274
10. On the Good, or Transcendental Goodness  313
11. Evil  378
12. Causes of Being in General  420
13. Material Cause of Substance  476
14. Material Cause of Accidents  636-722

vol. 3  Detailed ToC

15. Formal Substantial Cause  1
16. Accidental Formal Cause  168
17. Efficient Cause in General  203
18. Proximate Efficient Cause & its Causality, & all that is required for Causing  234
19. Causes Acting Necessarily & Freely or Contingently; where also concerning Fate, Fortune & Chance  465
20. First Efficient Cause & its Primary Action, which is Creation  604-701

vol. 4  Detailed ToC

21. First Efficient Cause & its other Action, which is Conservation  1
22. First Cause & its other Action, which is Cooperation or Concurrence with Secondary Causes  43
23. Final Cause in General  147
24. Ultimate Final Cause, or Ultimate End  262
25. Exemplar Causality  285
26. Comparison of Causes to their Effects  330
27. Comparison of Causes among Themselves  412
28. First Division of Being into the simply Infinite & the Finite, & other divisions which are Equivalent to this  441
29. God as the First Being & Uncreated Substance, insofar as his very Existence can be known by Natural Reason  492-588

vol. 5  Detailed ToC

30. First Being, insofar as What it is & of what Kind it is can be known by Natural Reason  1
31. Essence of Finite Being as such & on its Existence, & on the Distinction between them  400
32. Division of Created Being in Substance & Accident  615
33. Created Substance in General  657

vol. 6  Detailed ToC

34. First Substance, or the Suppositum, & its Distinction from Nature  1
35. Created Immaterial Substance  186
36. Material Substance in General  314
37. Essential Nature of Accident in General  348
38. Comparison of Accident to Substance  367
39. Division of Accident into Nine Supreme Genera  383
40. Continuous Quantity  443
41. Discrete Quantity & the Coordination of the Category of Quantity & its Properties  584
42. Quality & its Species in General  626-93

vol. 7  Detailed ToC

43. Potency & Act  1
44. Habits  73
45. Contrariety of Qualities  252
46. Intensification of Qaulities  290
47. Real Relation in General  357-561

vol. 8  Detailed ToC

48. Action  1
49. Passion  76
50. Category When, & in General on the Duration of Things  113
51. Where, or Ubi  253
52. Position  335
53. Habitus, as Constituting a Certain Genus of Accident  348
54. Beings of Reason  357-423
Philosophical Index
Theological Index

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Professional Translations

On Various Kinds of Distinctions  trans. Cyril Vollert  Buy  (Marquette Univ. Press, 1947)

Metaphysical Disputation I: On the Nature of First Philosophy or Metaphysics  in Early Modern Catholic Sources  Buy  (Catholic University of America Press, 2021)  464 pp.

Francis Suarez on Individuation: Metaphysical Disputation V: Individual Unity & its Principle  trans. Jorge J.E. Garcia  in Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation  Buy  (Marquette Univ. Press, 1982)  304 pp.

Metaphysics of Good & Evil According to Suarez: Metaphysical Disputations X & XI & Selected Passages from Disputation XXIII & Other Works (Analytica)  Buy  (Philosophia Verlag, 1989)  294 pp.

On the Formal Cause of Substance: Metaphysical Disputation XV  in Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation  Buy  (Marquette Univ. Press, 2000)

On Efficient Causality: Metaphysical Disputations 17, 18 & 19  trans. Alfred Freddoso  in Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy Series  Buy  (Yale Univ. Press, 1994)  448 pp.

On Creation Conservation & Concurrence: Metaphysical Disputations 20-22  trans. A.J. Freddoso  Buy  (St. Augustines Press, 2002)  368 pp.

The Metaphysical Demonstration of the Existence of God: Metaphysical Disputations 28-29  Buy  (St. Augustine Press, 2004)  240 pp.

On Real Relation: Disputatio Metaphysica XLVII: a Translation from the Latin, with an Introduction & Notes  trans. John P. Doyle  in Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation  Buy  (Marquette Univ. Press, 2006)  431 pp.

Francis Suarez on Beings of Reason, Metaphysical Disputation LIV  in Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation  Buy  (Marquette Univ. Press, 1994)  170 pp.

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On the Work of the Six Days

‘What Kind of Corporeal or Political Life Men Would Have Professed in the State of Innocence’  tr. Matthew Gaetano  in Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 15, no. 2 (Fall, 2012), pp. 527-63

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On Laws & God the Legislator

A Treatise on Laws & God the Lawgiver  in Selections from Three Works of Francisco Suarez, vol. 2  in Classics of International Law  (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1944)  Detailed ToC

Dedication  8
Preface  13
bk. 1, Law in general; its nature, causes and effects  21
bk. 2, Eternal law, natural law and the law of nations  143
bk. 3, Positive, human, civil law  361

bk. 6, Interpretation, cessation and change of human laws  419
bk. 7, Unwritten law, which is called custom  441-646

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On Faith, Hope & Charity

A Work on the Three Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope & Charity  in Selections from Three Works of Francisco Suarez, vol. 2  in Classics of International Law  (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1944)  Detailed ToC

Dedication  729
To the Reader  730
On Faith

disp. 18, On the means which may be used for the conversion and coercion of unbelievers who are not apostates  739

On Charity

To the Reader  799

disp. 13, On war  800

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Defense of the Catholic & Apostolic Faith against the Errors of Anglicanism

Defense of the Catholic & Apostolic Faith against the Errors of Anglicanism  tr. Peter L.P. Simpson  (1613)  1,005 pp.  ToC

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On the Religious State

William Humphrey, The Religious State.  A Digest of the Doctrine of Suarez…, vol. 1, 2, 3  (London: Burns & Oats, 1884)  ToC All, 1, 2, 3

Note this is a summary by Humphrey of Suarez’s work; it is not Suarez’s work itself.


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On Suarez’s Life

Books

1600’s

Descamps, Antonio Ignacio – The Life of Francisco Suarez, vol. 1, 2  tr. AI from Spanish  (1671)

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1900’s

Fichter, Joseph H. – Man of Spain: Francis Suarez  (Macmillan, 1940)  355 pp.  ToC


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On Suarez’s Thought

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Order of

Whole Thought  5
Special Topics  6


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Surveys of the Whole of his Thought

1600’s

Noel, Francis – A Compendium of R.P. Fancisco Suarez  tr. AI  (Madrid: 1732; Paris: Migne, 1858)  More detailed tables of contents are at the front of each volume.

Preface by Noel:

“I constantly keep exactly the same order of books, treatises, disputations, chapters, and sections which the author, Father Suárez, observed, so that, if anyone should at times wish to inspect or weigh more fully some subject that has been proposed, he may at once be able to find it in the very archetype without any difficulty or toil.  Sometimes, however, for the sake of brevity, I have gathered into a single heading certain chapters of his which were divided, but have a great mutual connexion; yet not even thus is the ease of finding the matter desired taken away, since I always retain the original order of the subject-matter.

Further, if sometimes from the title the sense of the question does not sufficiently appear, I prefix a brief explanation of it, and, when needful, I set out the whole question for clearer understanding by a successive series of cardinal numbers, saying 1, 2, 3, etc., as Father Suárez himself also more frequently is wont to set things forth.

Next, because he oſten prefixes to his own position the diverse opinions of authors or the heresies, I likewise indicate these at the outset along with his own, and at the end I resolve in a body their arguments or objections.  Yet do not expect, dear reader, that all and each of the original’s proofs and refutations—especially those drawn from authority—could have been included in so narrow a compendium; I have excerpted only those more necessary, suitable, and effective, for the most part merely indicating the rest in general.  Moreover, I have always striven, as briefly as I could, to embrace his whole line of argument and meaning.”

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vol. 1, God, Predestination, Trinity, Angels

Divine Substance

bk. 1, Existence and essence of God; attributes considered generically  3
bk. 2, Negative attributes of God, as He is one  36
bk. 3, Positive attributes of God: knowledge or intellect, will and power  123

Divine Predestination

bk. 1, Necessity and nature of predestination  144
bk. 2, Causes of predestination  177
bk. 3, Effects of predestination and their harmony with free choice  230

bk. 4, God’s supernatural providence regarding the eternal salvation of the reprobate or non-elect  244
bk. 5, Reprobation  250
bk. 6, Certain comparisons between the predestined and the reprobate  261

Triune God

bk. 1, Trinity of Persons and their procession  269
bk. 2, True divinity of the three Persons  287
bk. 3, True distinction of the three Persons and on the predicates that are multiplied in them  295
bk. 4, True unity of the three Persons and other matters pertaining to it  309
bk. 5, Divine reasons and notions  326
bk. 6, Origins and notional acts  336
bk. 7, Properties that constitute the divine Persons, and their constitution  344

bk. 8, The Father  352
bk. 9, The Son  355
bk. 10, Spiration: the Principle of the Holy Spirit  371
bk. 11, The Holy Spirit  381
bk. 12, Mission of the divine Persons  390

Celestial Spirits

bk. 1, Nature, production and quasi-substantial attributes of angels  405
bk. 2, Intellective power of angels and their natural knowledge  427
bk. 3, Will of angels in the pure state of their nature  494
bk. 4, Motive power of angels for transient actions, or for effecting changes  510
bk. 5, State of grace and merit which all the angels had on the way  547

bk. 6, State of the beatitude of the holy angels and their ministries  566
bk. 7, Evil angels: their fall and guilt  609
bk. 8, Punishments and pernicious works or offices of the evil angels  649

vol. 2, Six Days, Soul, Human Beatitude (God as Man’s End), Voluntary & Involuntary, Goodness & Malice of Human Acts, Passions & Habits, Sins, Laws & God the Legislator

Six Days

bk. 1, World, as created by God  3
bk. 2, Works of each of the Six Days  23
bk. 3, Man’s creation and state of innocence  42
bk. 4, Loss of the state of innocence  87
bk. 5, State which wayfarers would have had in this world if the first parents had not sinned  101

Soul

bk. 1, Substance, essence and information of the rational soul  122
bk. 2, Powers of the soul in general; vegetative soul  140
bk. 3, Cognitive & sensitive powers  147
bk. 4, Intellective power  165
bk. 5, Appetitive power; on the will; locomotive power  173
bk. 6, State of the separated soul  177

Human Beatitude

disp. 1, Causality of human will’s end  185
disp. 2, Will’s actions for an end’s sake  188
disp. 3, Man’s ultimate end in general  191
disp. 4, Beatitude in general  195
disp. 5, Object of human beatitude, or objective beatitude  196
disp. 6, Generic essence of formal beatitude  199
disp. 7, Specific essence  of formal supernatural beatitude  202
disp. 8, Perfections which the intellect of the blessed includes besides the beatific vision  207
disp. 9, Perfections of the will of the blessed as it concerns God  210
disp. 10, Other perfections of the will of the blessed  214
disp. 11, Dowries, aureoles and fruits of the blessed soul  217
disp. 12 [omitted]
disp. 13, Subject of supernatural beatitude  220
disp. 14, through three sections  222
disp. 15, through two sections  224
disp. 16, Appetite for beatitude  225

Voluntary & Involuntary

disp. 1, Voluntary and the free, and their difference  228
disp. 2, Involuntary, the violent and the coerced  235
disp. 3, Voluntary mixed with the involuntary on account of fear or concupiscence  240
disp. 4, Ignorance causing the voluntary or involuntary  243
disp. 5, Circumstances of human acts
disp. 6, First act of willing and intention  250
disp. 7, Fruition of the acquired end  252
disp. 8, Choice and consent  253
disp. 9, Use and command  255
disp. 10, Commanded acts of the will generally  256

Goodness & Malice of Human Acts

disp. 1, Moral act in general  258
disp. 2, Objective goodness and malice of human acts  260
disp. 3, Formal goodness of will’s interior act in general  265
disp. 4, Interior act’s goodness from the object  267
disp. 5, Interior act’s goodness from circumstances  270
disp. 6, Interior act’s goodness from the end  275
disp. 7, Malice  279

disp. 8, Division of an act into good and evil  285
disp. 9, The indifferent act of the will  288
disp. 10, Formal goodness and malice of external human acts  291
disp. 11, Remote and first rule of human acts: Eternal law or divine reason  294
disp. 12, Proximate rule of human acts: Right reason or conscience  296

Passions & Habits

disp. 1, Passions  306
disp. 2 [omitted]
disp. 3, Good habits, or virtues  311
disp. 4, Bad habits, or vices  316

Sins

disp. 1, Essence and gravity of sin  319
disp. 2, Mortal and venial sin  321
disp. 3, Sin of commission and omission  332
disp. 4, Sin arising from passion, ignorance and malice  337
disp. 5, Internal material and efficient causes of sins  338
disp. 6, Extrinsic cause of sin  345
.   1. Whether God is the cause of sin  345
disp. 7, Punishment of actual sin  348
disp. 8, Habitual sin, arising from actual sin  352
.   1. Whether, once an actual sin has been committed, something habitual remains in the soul that is truly sin, and what that thing is  352
disp. 9, Original Sin  354

Laws & God the Legislator

bk. 1, Law in general: nature, causes and effects  367
bk. 2, Eternal and natural law; law of nations  384
bk. 3, Positive human civil law  404
bk. 4, Positive canonical law  444
bk. 5, Variety of human laws  466
bk. 6, Interpretation, cessation and change of human law  496
bk. 7, Custom, or unwritten law  522
bk. 8, Law conceding privilege  539

bk. 9, The old positive divine Law  574
bk. 10, The divine New Law  602

vol. 3, Grace, Sanctification, Merit, Faith, Hope & Charity

Preliminaries & the Necessity of Grace

Pre. 1, Requisites for formal freedom and free use  3
Pre. 2, God’s knowledge concerning free acts conditionally future  10
Pre. 3, Common account of grace and its division  19
Pre. 4, Diverse states of human nature  27
Pre. 5, Various errors contrary to divine grace  36
Pre. 6, Writings containing the approved doctrine about grace  46

bk. 1, Necessity of grace for exercising morally good works of the natural order and for avoiding sins contrary to them  51
bk. 2, Necessity of grace for eliciting acts of the divine order, for observing supernatural precepts, and for avoiding sins contrary to them  100

Helps of Grace Generally & Specifically

bk. 3, Helps of grace generally  141
bk. 4, Sufficient grace  191
bk. 5, Efficacious grace  219

Habitual Grace, the Sanctification of Man, & Merit

bk. 6, Essence of habitual grace  257
bk. 7, Justification of man, insofar as it is the formal effect of habitual grace  279
bk. 8, Causes of habitual grace  327
bk. 9, Increase and perfection of habitual grace  360
bk. 10, Conservation of habitual grace and the gift of perseverance  385
bk. 11, Perpetuity or loss of habitual grace  401
bk. 12, Merit, which is the principal moral effect of sanctifying grace  418

Virtue of Faith

disp. 1, Certain preliminary matters  495
disp. 2, Material object or subject of faith  496
disp. 3, Formal object of faith  504
disp. 4, Sufficient and necessary proposition of the object of faith for believing  522
disp. 5, Infallible rules of faith proposing the object  530
disp. 6, Act of justifying faith  546
disp. 7, Habit of faith  556
disp. 8, Distinction of faith from all intellectual gifts  561
disp. 9, The holy Church  568
disp. 10, The supreme Pontiff  582
disp. 11, Holy councils  599
disp. 12, Necessity of faith insofar as it is a means to attaining salvation  605
disp. 13, Precept of the interior act of faith  613
disp. 14, Precept of the exterior act of faith  620
disp. 15, Sins against the internal precept of faith  628
disp. 16, Infidelity
disp. 17, Paganism and Judaism  634
disp. 18, Lawful means to use for converting or coercing infidels  638
disp. 19, Sin of heresy  645
disp. 20, Remedies for refuting or extirpating heresies  653
disp. 21, Spiritual penalties of heretics  662
disp. 22, Temporal penalty of heretics  669
disp. 23, Corporal penalties of heretics  674
disp. 24, Persons to whom penalties of heretics extend on account of conjunction with them  678

Virtue of Hope

disp. 1, Speculative on the virtue of hope  682
disp. 2, Moral virtue of hope  689

Virtue of Charity

disp. 1, Material and formal object of charity  693
disp. 2, Act of charity  697
disp. 3, Habit of charity  700
disp. 4, Virtue of Mercy  704
disp. 5, Precepts of Charity  706
disp. 6, Sins contrary to the precept of charity  710
disp. 7, Precept of almsgiving  711
disp. 8, Precept of fraternal correction  719
disp. 9, Order to be preserved in the precept of charity and mercy  723
disp. 10, Scandal in general  726
disp. 11, Precept concerning peace  730
disp. 12, Schism  731
disp. 13, War  733

vol. 4, Religion, Precepts & Vices of, Devotion, Oaths, Vows, State of Perfection, Religious Persons, Variety of Religions, Society of Jesus

Nature & Essence of Religion

bk. 1, Object of religion  3
bk. 2, Acts of religion in general  7
bk. 3, Habit of religion  9

Affirmative Precepts of Religion

bk. 1, Precepts of divine worship  18
bk. 2, Feast days  52
bk. 3, Due reverence of sacred places  86

Vices Contrary to Religion

bk. 1, Irreligiosity  101
bk. 2, Superstition  108
bk. 3, Sacrilege  136
bk. 4, Simony  140

Prayer, Devotion & Canonical Hours

bk. 1, Prayer in general  235
bk. 2, Mental prayer and devotion  260
bk. 3, Vocal prayer in general  280
bk. 4, Church’s public prayer and canonical hours  289

Oaths & Adjurations

bk. 1, Oaths in general; Assertory oath in particular  336
bk. 2, Promissory oath  350
bk. 3, Precepts of oaths and sins contrary to them  398
bk. 4, Adjuration  416

Vows in General

bk. 1, Essence and goodness of vows  421
bk. 2, Matter of vows and its divisions  446
bk. 3, Precepts pertaining to oaths and on perjury and other sins contrary to them  463
bk. 4, Obligation of a vow  472
bk. 5, Sins contrary to a vow  497
bk. 6, Irritation, dispensation and commutation of a vow  505

State of Perfection & Religion

bk. 1, State of perfection and its various modes  535
bk. 2, Essence, origin and vows by which the religious state is constituted, and other things pertaining to these  552
bk. 3, Author, origin and antiquity of the religious state  572
bk. 4, Vow of assuming the state of religion  577
bk. 5, Entrance into religion and the Novitate  588
bk. 6, Valid religious profession  607
bk. 7, Invalid religious profession  631
bk. 8, Poverty  639
bk. 9, Vow of chastity  667
bk. 10, Vow of obedience  698

Obligations of Religious Persons arising from Rule, Prelacy & Subjection

bk. 1, Proper obligations of the religious insofar as they live under a rule  717
bk. 2, On the religious so far as they are prelates and their obligations as such  729
bk. 3, On the religious deserting or changing their religion  762

Variety of Religions

bk. 1, Variety of religions in general  784
bk. 2, Variety of religions in particular  792

Religion of the Society of Jesus

bk. 1, Institute of the Society  799
bk. 2, Entrance to and probation in the Society  804
bk. 3, Admission of scholars into the Society through simple vows, and their dismissal  810
bk. 4, Simple vows of chastity, poverty and obedience which are emitted in the Society  818
bk. 5, Scholars and studies of the Society, both domestic and external  833
bk. 6, Profession which is made in the Society, and those things which precede and follow it  837
bk. 7, On the Professed of three vows and the formed coadjutors of the Society  850
bk. 8, Means which the society uses for acquiring its own perfection  854
bk. 9, Ministries or means which the Society uses for the salvation of neighbors  858
bk. 10, Governance of the Society and its prelates  871

vol. 5, Incarnation & Sacraments

Mystery of the Incarnation

disp. 1, Contra Jews, Messiah has come, from various Scriptures  3
disp. 2, Contra heretics and Jews: Christ is true man and God  7
disp. 3, Existence of the incarnation and its fittingness  9
disp. 4, Fittingness and necessity of the incarnation for the restoration of fallen man  12
disp. 5, Primary cause of the incarnation  33
disp. 6, Time when the incarnation was made, and its fittingness  43
disp. 7, Terminus of the incarnation which is produced, or results through it  45
disp. 8, What the incarnation is  52
disp. 9, Excellence and perfection of the hypostatic union  58
disp. 10, Causes of the incarnation; meritorious cause  60
disp. 11, Divine existence and subsistence  72
disp. 12, Person assuming and united to the humanity  77
disp. 13, Terminus of the assumption, in any possible incarnation  81
disp. 14, What could be assumed by God through any possible hypostatic union  84
disp. 15, What the Word assumed through the incarnation  90
disp. 16, Order of the assumption according to the real succession of time  96
disp. 17, Order of nature observed in this assumption  98
disp. 18, Sanctifying grace, or created justice, in the soul of Christ  102
disp. 19, Moral virtues of the soul of Christ  108
disp. 20, Gifts of the Holy Spirit bestowed upon the soul of Christ  109
disp. 21, Freely given graces bestowed upon the soul of Christ  110
disp. 22, Accidental perfection of the habitual grace of Christ  112
disp. 23, Dignity and grace of the Head that is in Christ  115
disp. 24, Created intellect of Christ’s soul and its acts  118
disp. 25, Threefold knowledge of Christ’s soul  123
disp. 26, Perfection of the beatific knowledge possessed by Christ’s soul  124
disp. 27, Material object of the knowledge per se infused in Christ’s soul  131
disp. 28, Acts of the infused knowledge of Christ’s soul  135
disp. 29, Habit of the infused knowledge of Christ’s soul  137
disp. 30, Perfection of the acquired knowledge of Christ’s soul  140
disp. 31, Grace or power given to Christ’s soul for working miracles and supernatural works  143
disp. 32, Defects and perfections of Christ’s body  156
disp. 33, Contrary defects of grace and virtue, not assumed by Christ  160
disp. 34, Sensitive appetite of Christ’s soul and its acts  163
disp. 35, Communication of idioms  167
disp. 36, Being of the existence of Christ and of his humanity  171
disp. 37, Christ’s human will and its freedom  176
disp. 38, Variety and efficacy of the acts of Christ’s will  181
disp. 39, Christ’s merit considered in itself and absolutely  185
disp. 40, Those things which Christ merited for Himself  189
disp. 41, Those things which Christ merited for men  193
disp. 42, Those things which Christ merited for angels  201
disp. 43, Christ’s obedience and the precepts of which He was capable  204
disp. 44, Christ’s servitude  207
disp. 45, Prayer of Christ in the state of wayfaring and in the Fatherland (Heaven)  211
disp. 46, Supreme priesthood and pontificate of Christ  213
disp. 47, Excellent power of the priesthood of Christ and his spiritual kingdom  218
disp. 48, Temporal kingdom of Christ  220
disp. 49, Filiation of Christ in relation to God  222
disp. 50, Manner of speaking concerning the predestination of Christ  230
disp. 51, Adoration owed to Christ as God  232
disp. 52, Adoration to be exhibited to holy men or angels  237
disp. 53, Adoration owed to Christ and his humanity  240
disp. 54, Use and adoration of images  244
disp. 55, Worship and veneration of relics  258
disp. 56, Use and adoration of the cross  261

Mysteries of Christ’s Life & his Twofold Advent

disp. 1, Dignity of the mother of God in general  269
disp. 2, Natural perfection and origin of Mary  273
disp. 3, Time at which Mary was first sanctified  276
disp. 4, Perfection of Mary’s first sanctification  284
disp. 5, Bodily virginity of Mary  291
disp. 6, Mary’s virginity regards the virtue of the soul  297
disp. 7, Marriage of Mary with Joseph  300
disp. 8, On Joseph  302
disp. 9, Manner and circumstances of the angelic annunciation  305
disp. 10, Efficient cause and the minister of the matter of Christ’s conception  307
disp. 11, Instance in which Christ’s conception was completed  309
disp. 12, Relations arising from Christ’s birth between Him and Mary  311
disp. 13, Christ’s temporal birth  315
disp. 14, Wonders wrought at Christ’s birth  319
disp. 15, Mystery of the circumcision  324
disp. 16, Presentation of Christ and Mary’s purification  327
disp. 17, Remaining mysteries of Christ’s life up to his thirtieth year  329
disp. 18, Perfection of the grace and merits of Mary  332
disp. 19, Mary’s knowledge and wisdom in the state of wayfaring  338
disp. 20, Graces freely given to Mary  342
disp. 21, Death and assumption of Mary  344
disp. 22, Adoration of Mary  347
disp. 23, Intercession and invocation of Mary  350
disp. 24, John, Christ’s precursor  352
disp. 25, John’s baptism  358
disp. 26, Time and age at which Christ was baptized  362
disp. 27, Events at Christ’s baptism  364
disp. 28, State of life Christ maintained in this world  366
disp. 29, Forty day fast of Christ in the desert  369
disp. 30, Christ the teacher and his doctrine  371
disp. 31, Christ’s miracles  373
disp. 32, Christ’s transfiguration  379
disp. 33, Christ’s passion in general  381
disp. 34, Events Christ endured up to his arrest  383
disp. 35, Events Christ endured up to the pronouncing of the sentence of death  386
disp. 36, Crucifixion of Christ  388
disp. 37, Things Christ endured and accomplished before his death hanging on the cross  392
disp. 38, Christ’s death as regards its substance and causes  396
disp. 39, Prodigies that occurred at Christ’s death  399
disp. 40, Time of Christ’s death and passion  401
disp. 41, Events concerning Christ’s body after his death  410
disp. 42, Estate and place of holy souls before Christ’s death  412
disp. 43, State which Christ’s soul had when separated from the body  416
disp. 44, On the Resurrection in itself  424
disp. 45, Christ’s resurrection and its causes  430
disp. 46, Time of Christ’s resurrection  433
disp. 47, Natural perfection and integrity of Christ’s body in the resurrection  437
disp. 48, Supernatural perfection of Christ’s body after the resurrection  445
disp. 49, Appearances after the resurrection  452
disp. 50, Resurrection of the dead as an effect of Christ’s resurrection  458
disp. 51, Christ’s ascension and its terminus  472
disp. 52, Christ’s judicial power and its exercise  478
disp. 53, Christ’s second coming for the universal judgment  483
disp. 54, On the Antichrist  488
disp. 55, Forerunners of the good of Christ’s second coming  494
disp. 56, Signs that will precede the universal judgment  498
disp. 57, Coming of the Judge and the form of the Judgment and its end  502
disp. 58, State of Christ and the world after the completion of the Judgment  512

pt. 1, Sacraments in general, Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist & Mass

disp. 1, Essence and definition of sacrament  519
disp. 2, Matter and form of
disp. 3, Sacraments that would have existed in the state of innocence  534
disp. 4, Institution and necessity of the sacraments of the Law of Nature  536
disp. 5, Institution and necessity of circumcision and the other sacraments of the Old Law  540
disp. 6, Institution and necessity of the sacraments of the Law of Grace  543
disp. 7, Efficacy of the sacraments of the New Law for conferring grace  544
disp. 8, Time in which the sacraments confer grace  551
disp. 9, Manner in which the sacraments effect grace  554
disp. 10, Inefficacy of the old sacraments for conferring grace  560
disp. 11, Nature and necessity of character  565
disp. 12, Cause instituting the sacraments  570
disp. 13, Proximate cause ministering the sacraments  573
disp. 14, Subject apt for receiving the sacraments  584
disp. 15, Sacramentals, or on the ceremonies of the sacraments in common
disp. 16, Precepts concerning the sacraments as they pertain to their ministers  593
disp. 17, Precepts pertaining to those who receive the sacraments  598
disp. 18, Obligation not to cooperate with one who gives or receives a sacrament unworthily  599

disp. 19, Institution of baptism 605
disp. 20, Matter of baptism  605
disp. 21, Form of baptism  608
disp. 22, Unity of baptism  613
disp. 23, Minister of baptism  615
disp. 24, Baptism of adults  620
disp. 25, Baptism of infants and the right of baptizing  622
disp. 26, Effects of baptism  630
disp. 27, Necessity of baptism for obtaining grace and glory  633
disp. 28, disposition required for obtaining baptism’s effect  639
disp. 29, Disposition and effect of baptism of blood or martyrdom  650
disp. 30, Ceremonies and circumstances to be observed in solemn baptism  657
disp. 31, Moral doctrine pertaining to the sacrament of baptism  660

disp. 32, Sacrament of confirming and its institution  667
disp. 33, Essence of the sacrament of confirmation  670
disp. 34, Effect of the sacrament of confirmation  678
disp. 35, Those who receive the sacrament of confirmation  680
disp. 36, Minister of confirmation  681
disp. 37, Ceremonies of the sacrament of confirmation  686
disp. 38, Obligation of the faithful regarding the reception of this sacrament, and of the minister regarding its administration  688

disp. 39, Institution of the sacrament of the eucharist  690
disp. 40, Necessity of the Eucharist  692
disp. 41, Time of the institution of  697
disp. 42, Essence and parts of eucharist in general  701
disp. 43, Remote matter of the eucharist in general  708
disp. 44, Remote matter, or the bread from which Christ’s body is confected  715
disp. 45, Remote matter, or the wine from which Christ’s blood is confected  719
disp. 46, Real presence of Christ’s body in eucharist  724
disp. 47, What Christ’s presence is in the eucharist  737
disp. 48, Comparison of the sacramental and natural presence of Christ’s body  743
disp. 49, Absence of bread and wine from eucharist  754
disp. 50, Transition or conversion of bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood, called transubstantiation  760
disp. 51, What exists under each species of the eucharist  770
disp. 52, What exists under each part of the species of bread and wine  777
disp. 53, What Christ can do or undergo insofar as He is in this sacrament  779
disp. 54, Mode by which Christ ceases to be under the sacramental species  785
disp. 55, Apparent changes that occur in the eucharist  787
disp. 56, Mode of existing of the accidents of bread and wine after consecration  790
disp. 57, What the consecrated sacramental species can do and undergo  793
disp. 58, Sacramental form of the eucharist in general  796
disp. 59, Form of the consecration of bread  804
disp. 60, Regarding the form of the consecration of the blood  807
disp. 61, Efficient cause of the eucharist, and efficacy of the form and of the minister  810
disp. 62, Those who receive this sacrament  814
disp. 63, Effects which the eucharist produces in the soul  816
disp. 64, Effect which the eucharist produces in the body  829
disp. 65, Adoration due to the eucharist  833
disp. 66, Spiritual disposition required by precept for receiving this sacrament  836
disp. 67, Obligation of repelling the unworthy from use of the eucharist  844
disp. 68, Bodily disposition required by precept for receiving the eucharist  849
disp. 69, Divine precept concerning the use of the eucharist  855
disp. 70, Ecclesiastical precept concerning use of the eucharist  860
disp. 71, Precept of communicating under one or both species  863
disp. 72, Obligations pertaining to the dispensers of this sacrament  867

Sacrifice of the Mass

disp. 73, Sacrifice in general  871
disp. 74, Mass or the sacrifice of the New Law  878
disp. 75, Essence of the eucharistic sacrifice  885
disp. 76, Comparison of this sacrifice with other sacrifices and sacraments  892
disp. 77, Those who offer the eucharistic sacrifice  894
disp. 78, Those for whom this sacrifice can be offered  897
disp. 79, Effect and value of this sacrifice  899
disp. 80, Time when priests are bound or may lawfully offer the sacrifice of the Mass  913
disp. 81, Place and sacred vessels in which the sacrifice of the mass is to be celebrated  916
disp. 82, Preparation for Mass and the sacred vestments  925
disp. 83, Rites of the Mass that consist in words  928
disp. 84, Rites of the Mass that consist in action  933
disp. 85, Obligation of supplying defects committed during sacrifice  934
disp. 86, Just stipend for Mass and on behalf of whom it must be applied by obligation  936
disp. 87, Minister necessary for the sacrifice and his obligation  940
disp. 88, Precept of hearing Mass

vol. 6, Penance & Extreme Unction, on Purgatory, Suffrage & Indulgences

Penance

bk. 1, Penance as a virtue  3

disp. 1, Penance in general  3
disp. 2, Object of the virtue of penance  4
disp. 3, Acts of the virtue of penance in general  7
disp. 4, Contrition in itself  16
disp. 5, Attrition  24
disp. 6, Exterior act of penance  29
disp. 7, Habit of the virtue of penance  29
disp. 8, First effect of penance: Remission of mortal sins  31
disp. 9, Necessity of penance for the remission of mortal sins  35
disp. 10, Perfection of the remission of mortal sin through penance  41
disp. 11, Remission of venial sins through penance  44
disp. 12, Remission of venial sin through the sacraments  52
disp. 13, Absolute and irrevocable remission of sins through penance  56
disp. 14, Last effect of penance: Reparation or revival of deadened merits  60
disp. 15, Precepts of the virtue of penance  67

bk. 2, Penance as a sacrament  74

disp. 16, Power of the keys, or power of remitting sins, given by Christ to the Church  74
disp. 17, Institution and necessity of the sacrament of penance  80
disp. 18, Essence and rite of this sacrament in general  83
disp. 19, Form of the sacrament of penance  87
disp. 20, Interior sorrow required for the substance and effect of this sacrament  91
disp. 21, Whatness and quality of sacramental confession  100
disp. 22, Integrity of confession required per se for its validity  103
disp. 23, Formal integrity of confession and its defect  115

disp. 24, Minister of the sacrament of penance in general  118
disp. 25, Minister of this sacrament having ordinary power  120
disp. 26, Minister of this sacrament having delegated power  123
disp. 27, Faculty of choosing a confessor  128
disp. 28, Suitability of the confessor  132
disp. 29, Minister of this sacrament with respect to reserved cases  139
disp. Minister who can directly resolve the penitent from reserved cases  143
disp. 31, Manner of absolving from reserved cases  147
disp. 32, Obligations of the minister of this sacrament  151

disp. 33, Seal of confession  154
disp. 34, On the secret to be kept concerning the person of an accomplice
disp. 35, Divine precept of confession
disp. 36, Ecclesiastical precept of annual confession  168

disp. 37, Satisfaction considered in itself  173
disp. 38, Sacramental satisfaction  181

Extreme Unction

bk. 3, Sacrament of Extreme Unction

disp. 39, Institution of this sacrament  189
disp. 40, Essence of extreme unction  191
disp. 41, Effect and end of  195
disp. 42, Subject to whom this sacrament is to be given  200
disp. 43, Minister of this sacrament  202
disp. 44, Precepts and rite of  204

Purgatory

bk. 4, Purgatory

disp. 45, Purgatory in general, whether it exists and where it is  208
disp. 46, Quality and severity of punishments  213
disp. 47, State of grace of the souls in purgatory  219

bk. 5, Suffrages

disp. 48, Suffrages  224

bk. 6, Indulgences

disp. 49, Power of granting indulgences  240
disp. 50, Effect of indulgences  246
disp. 51, Treasury of the Church which is dispensed through indulgences  253
disp. 52, Living faithful to whom indulgences can be beneficial  259
disp. 53, Departed for whom indulgences can be beneficial  267
disp. 54, Final cause for which indulgences can and ought to be granted  271
disp. 55, Sufficient cause of indulgences  274
disp. 56, Form to be observed in the concession of indulgences  279
disp. 57, Duration and revocation of indulgences  283

Censures & Irregularity

disp. 1, Censures in general  289
disp. 2, Efficient cause of censure; modes of imposing it  291
disp. 3, Modes of imposing censures; censure imposed by law or a person  295
disp. 4, Cause for which a censure can be imposed  306
disp. 5, On whom a censure can be imposed  320
disp. 6, Effects of censure in general  324
disp. 7, Absolution; modes by which a censure can be lifted  327
disp. 8, Excommunication  338

disp. 9, First effect of major excommunication: Privation of Church’s prayers and suffrages  339
disp. 10, Second effect: Privation of passive communication of sacraments
disp. 11, Third effect: Deprivation of active administration of sacraments and the mass  349
disp. 12, Fourth effect: Deprivation of divine offices and other sacred things  357
disp. 13, Fifth effect: Incapacity for ecclesiastical benefices or their fruits  362
disp. 14, Sixth effect: Deprivation of ecclesiastical jurisdiction  365
disp. 15, Seventh effect: Depriviation of civil communication, with several effects
disp. 16, Eighth effect: Deprivation of forensic communication  376
disp. 17, All other remote effects of excommunication

disp. 18, Causes of major excommunication  383
disp. 19, Absolution from excommunication  388
disp. 20, Certain excommunications in particular that are customarily imposed by man  390
disp. 21, Excommunications reserved to the Pope in the Bull Coenae Domini  395
disp. 22, Excommunications reserved to the Pope by law  399
disp. 23, Excommunications not reserved to the Pope  407
disp. 24, Minor excommunications  413
disp. 25, Suspension as to its essence and species  416
disp. 26, Suspension from office, what it is and what effects it has  418
disp. 27, Effects of suspension from benefice  423
disp. 28, Causes of suspension  426
disp. 29, Removal or absolution of suspension  430
disp. 30, Difference between suspension, deposition and degradation  433
disp. 31, Suspensions in particular which are imposed by the law itself  436
disp. 32, Interdict in general as to its essence and species  446

disp. 33, First effect: Privation of the sacraments
disp. 34, Second effect: Prohibition of divine offices  455
disp. 35, Third effect: Privation of ecclesiastical burial or entrance into a church  461

disp. 36, Causes of interdict  466
disp. 37, All interdicts imposed by the law itself  469
disp. 38, Relaxation of an interdict  471
disp. 39, Cessation from divine offices  474
disp. 40, Irregularity in general  479
disp. 41, Ways by which irregularity is removed, especially by dispensation  491

disp. 42, Irregularity contracted through an offense in the use of the sacraments  494
disp. 43, Irregularities that can be contracted from
other offenses or from their infamy  499
disp. 44, Irregularity contracted from the offense of voluntary homicide
disp. 45, Irregularity contracted from casual homicide  505
disp. 46, Irregularity contracted from necessary homicide or homicide committed in self-defense  509
disp. 47, Irregularity contracted from licit homicide on account of a defect of mildness  511
disp. 48, Irregularity contracted from infamy  518
disp. 49, Irregularity arising from bigamy [remarriage]  520
disp. 50, Irregularity arising from defect of birth  524
disp. 51, Irregularity contracted from an inculpable personal defect  527

Appendix 1, on Justice & Law

ch. 1, Justice in general  537
ch. 2, Law in general  538
ch. 3, Various species of real right  539
ch. 4, To whom and over what ownership belongs  544
ch. 5, Mode of acquiring ownership over things that belong to no one or are common  550
ch. 6, Mode of acquiring ownership through prescription  557
ch. 7, Injury and restitution in general  565
ch. 8, Restitution for injuries inflicted on spiritual goods of one’s neighbor  570
ch. 9, Restitution for injuries inflicted on the body of one’s neighbor by homicide or mutilation  572
ch. 10, Restitution for injuries inflicted on the body of one’s neighbor through fornication and adultery
ch. 11, Restitution for injuries inflicted through detraction and contumely  580
ch. 12, Restitution for injuries inflicted through theft  585
ch. 13, Restitution on account of cooperation in theft or harm  592
ch. 14, Restitution of a thing received  594
ch. 15, Order to be observed in restitution, the place and the expenses  597
ch. 16, Causes excusing from restitution  598
ch. 17, Contracts in general  599
ch. 18, Promise and donation  604
ch. 19, Deposit, sequestration and loan for use  609
ch. 20, Surety, insurance, pledge and mortgage  610
ch. 21, Loan  612
ch. 22, Usury  613
ch. 23, Pawnshops  620
ch. 24, Purchase, sale and trade  621
ch. 25, Annuities or annual revenues  627
ch. 26, Bills of exchange  630
ch. 27, Rent, lease, emphyteusis and fief  632
ch. 28, Contract of partnership  636
ch. 29, Insurance, wager and gambling  637
ch. 30, Testaments and their adjuncts  639
ch. 31, On the judge  643
ch. 32, Accuser and witness  647
ch. 33, Defendant and the advocate  649
ch. 34, Tributes and customs  651
ch. 35, Benefices  654
ch. 36, Obligations of beneficiaries  659
ch. 37, Pensions  661

Appendix 2, on Matrimony

pt. 1, Betrothal  663
pt. 2, Matrimony considered in itself  669
pt. 3, Matrimony as a sacrament  674

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1900’s

eds. Salas, Victor M. & Robert L. Fastiggi – A Companion to Francisco Suarez  (Brill, 1999)  385 pp.

Ch. 9 is on ‘Suarez’s Influence on Protestant Scholasticism: the Cases of Hollaz [Lutheran] & [Francis] Turretin’.

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2000’s

Pereira, Jose – Suarez: between Scholasticism & Modernity  (Marquette University Press, 2006)  375 pp.

Doyle, John P. – Collected Studies on Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548-1617)  Pre  (2010)  416 pp.

Interpreting Suarez: Critical Essays  (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012)  228 pp.


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On Special Topics in Suarez

Metaphysics

Books

Novak, Lukas – Suárez’s Metaphysics in its Historical & Systematic Context  Pre  (2014)  354 pp.  ToC

Rampelt, Jason M. – Reasonable Distinctions: The Academic Life of John Wallis (1616–1703)  Pre  (Brill, 2019)  332 pp.  ToC

Wallis (1616-1703) was an English presbyterian and scribe at the Westminster Assembly.  He was also a professor of mathematics at Oxford for over half a century, remembered as an important mathematician.  He used Suarez’s theory of distinctions in his academic career.

Wallis’s “career spans the political tumult of the English Civil Wars, the religious upheaval of the Church of England, and the fascinating developments in mathematics and natural philosophy.  His ability to navigate this terrain and advance human learning in the academic world was facilitated by his use of the Jesuit Francisco Suarez’s theory of distinctions.  This Roman Catholic’s philosophy in the hands of a Protestant divine fostered an instrumentalism necessary to bridge the old and new.  With this tool, Wallis brought modern science into the university and helped form the Royal Society.” – Abstract

Heider, Daniel – Universals in Second Scholasticism: A Comparative Study with Focus on the Theories of Francisco Suárez S.J. (1548–1617), João Poinsot O.P. (1589–1644) and Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola O.F.M. Conv. (1602–1673)/Bonaventura Belluto O.F.M. Conv. (1600–1676)  (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014)  344 pp.

See this review by Sydney Penner.  Penner:

“Part of Heider’s project is to argue that Suárez was in fact a moderate realist, despite widespread characterizations of him, both by his immediate successors and by recent scholars, as essentially a nominalist.  Such characterizations gain strength from Suárez’s own statement that he perhaps differed from the nominalists only modo loquendi (97).  Heider, however, argues that it makes more sense to regard Suárez as a moderate realist, of broadly the same stripe as Poinsot, Mastri, and Belluto.  It is not always entirely clear, though, wherein Heider disagrees with other commentators.  Do they offer substantively different interpretations of Suárez, or are they using different taxonomies, with more or less strict usages of the term “nominalist?”  In particular, it is worth noting that, if the crude, but widely used, division between realism and nominalism is employed, moderate realism is a species of nominalism, rather than the realism its name suggests.

The great strength of this book is Heider’s masterful, detailed examination of three representative accounts from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Scholasticism.  Suárez offers an original blend of Thomist, Scotist, and nominalist elements; Poinsot’s account is more purely ad mentem Thomi, while Mastri and Belluto take an approach ad mentem Scoti.  Of course, there were other streams of thought in the period, but Heider reasonably takes these to be the most important ones…

Heider rightly presents Suárez as the first Scholastic of a venerable early modern tradition, rather than as the last schoolman.  The present volume decisively dismantles the latter characterization.”

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Free Choice

Book

Burns, Josephine – The Early Theory of Human Choice in the Philosophy of Francisco Suarez  (1967)  345 pp.  ToC

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Salvation

Book

O’Brien, Joseph – Reparation for Sin: a Study of the Doctrine of Francis Suarez, S.J.  (Mundelein, IL: St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, 1960)  215 pp.  ToC

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Perception

Book

Daniel Heider – Aristotelian Subjectivism: Francisco Suárez’s Philosophy of Perception  in Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, #28  Buy  (Springer, 2021)  315 pp.

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Politics

Book

Francisco Suarez: Addresses in Commemoration of his Contribution to International Law & Politics, delivered at the Catholic University of America, 10 April 1933  (Washington, 1933)  60 pp.  ToC

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