CHAPTER XXIX: PREFATORY REMARKS

[1679] Prologue to q. 29

[1680] cf. Denzinger's Enchiridion, Index systematicus, VIII, h. on what the Church has defined and declared about the mysteries of Christ's life.

Concerning this part of St. Thomas' treatise, cf. such commentators as Cajetan and Bartholomew de Medina; Suarez, St. Robert Bellarmine, Petavius, L. Billot, L. Janssens, E. Hugon. Th. Pegues must also be noted. Father Voste, O.P., has recently published a Commentary on the Theological Summa of St. Thomas, entitled "De mysteriis vitae Christi" (IIIa, q. 27-59), and another work, De passione et morte Jesu Christi, Rome, 1937.

On the history of the theology of redemption, cf. J. Riviere, "Le dogme de la Redemption, " Etude theologique; Le dogme de la redemption chez S. Augustin; Le dogme de la redemption apres S. Augustin; Le dogme de la redemption au debut du Moyen-age.

[1681] cf. IIIa, q. 27-45.

[1682] Ibid., q. 32-35

[1683] Ibid., q. 35, a. 5

[1684] See Part I, q. 1, a. 2

[1685] Tractactus dogmatici de Verbo incarnato, p. 667. This liberation and reparation of the human race is called objective redemption to which Jesus the Redeemer has condign right; the application of this liberation and reparation to such an individual, as Peter or Paul, is called subjective redemption

[1686] cf. IIIa, q. 48

[1687] cf. IIIa, q. 48, a. 2

[1688] Merit primarily belongs to charity, sacrifice to religion, satisfaction to justice, but in us it is a part of penance, which was not in Christ, who was impeccable, and martyrdom is an act of fortitude

[1689] I Cor. 6:20.

[1690] cf. q. 48, a. 1

[1691] cf. infra, q. 48 of St. Thomas, for division and arrangement of this question

[1692] Summa theol., Ia IIae, q. 113, a. 8, ad 1

[1693] Such as Kant, Schleiermacher, Ritsch, A. Harnack, A. Sabatier. cf. A. Sabatier, La doctrine de l'expiation et son evolution historique, pp. 38f. See also Riviere, Le dogme de la redemption, chap. 2, pp. 15f.

[1694] Denz., no. 2038. cf. Riviere, op. cit., p. 16

[1695] cf. infra, chap. 33, on the stand taken by liberal Protestants (q. 48, a. 2, of St. Thomas).

[1696] Denz., no. 86

[1697] Ibid., no. 112.

[1698] Ibid., no. 286

[1699] Ibid., no. 429

[1700] Ibid., no. 711

[1701] Ibid., no. 799

[1702] Ibid, no. 371

[1703] Ibid., no. 943

[1704] Ibid., no. 2038

[1705] See Denzinger, nos. 794f., 799, 319, 552, 1019, 3051

[1706] Epist., 190

[1707] John 3:16

[1708] Ibid., 13:2

[1709] cf. IIIa., q. 46, a. 1

[1710] Ibid., q. 48, a. 2

[1711] Ibid., q. 1, a. 2.

[1712] Ibid., q. 48, a. 2

[1713] Ibid., Ia, q. 21, a. 4.