The Works Of Orestes A Brownson Philosophy Of Religion

Author : Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458944313
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Orestes a Brownson written by Orestes Augustus Brownson and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt: ... nor is it necessarily, by any means, the only sin of those not in the Catholic communion. The condemnation of these will not be for the sin of infidelity, if they are not guilty of it, but for their other sins. They will be condemned, not by reason of the guilt, but by reason of the fact, of being out of the church, for their sins against the natural law, which are remissible only through the church. Finally, we are told that there are persons out of the church who are not only free from the sin of infidelity, but from all actual sin. But this is a gratuitous assumption; for, without a special revelation from God, we cannot know that there are such persons, and nothing, so far as we are aware, either in reason or sound theology, authorizes us to assume that there are or can be. But suppose there can be, and that there are, such persons, nothing obliges us to assert, or permits you to assume that we assert, their condemnation to the tortures of hell. The Catholic dogma objected to simply teaches, that no one can ever be saved out of the Catholic Church, that is, enter into eternal life, --see God in the beatific vision by the light of glory. What the dogma obliges us to assert is, that salvation, in this sense, which is supernatural both in its principle and its terminus, is unattainable out of the church. But this salvation does not neccssarily stand opposed simply to the torments of hell. Hell is twofold, and consists in the punishment of loss and the punishment of sense. None are saved who do not escape both; but not therefore does it necessarily follow, that all who are not saved are doomed to suffer both. All are guilty of original sin, and original sin itself forfeits heaven, and incurs the punishment of loss; but the church does not teach that it inc..