Symbolism

Author(s): Johann Adam Möhler, James Burton Robertson

Number of Chapters: 37

Length: 13 hours and 31 minutes

Language: English

Johann Adam Möhler was professor theology at the Tübingen University where both Catholics and Protestants taught and studied. In 1832 he published Symbolism; a work that examined the doctrines of original sin, grace and free will as held by the different Christian confessions. It caused a storm of controversy in the Protestant nations of Europe. In it he turned the weapons furnished by Hegel, the “Protestant Aquinas”, against Protestantism. His method and style were supported by the use of facts, texts, and documents. By 1838 Symbolism had been translated to 8 languages and its author had died before he completed its 5th edition.

In an age when the Catholic Church found itself divided into two camps, the “German” and the “Roman”, Döllinger, a former pupil of Möhler’s, when addressing a group of scholars at Munich in 1863 once famously quipped that the former were defending Catholicism with rifles while the latter were still using bows and arrows. The “Romans”, however, would succeed in silencing thier “German” brethren at the First Vatican Council and cut off a branch bearing good fruit. A rediscovery of the “German” school is long overdue and there is no better place to start than Möhler’s Symbolism. (Summary by Jeff Allen)

Introductory Note by the Translator (Jeff Allen)

Author's Prefaces to the First through Fourth Editions, Editor's Preface to the Fifth Edition (Jeff Allen)

Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 1 (Jeff Allen)

Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 2 (Jeff Allen)

Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 3 (Jeff Allen)

Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 4 (Jeff Allen)

Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 5 (Jeff Allen)

Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 6 (Jeff Allen)

Introduction, Part I- Nature, Extent and Sources of Symbolism. (Jeff Allen)

Introduction, Part II - Symbolical Writings of Catholics and Protestants. (Jeff Allen)

Book I, Part I, § I - Primitive State of Man According to the Catholic Doctrine. (Jeff Allen)

§ II Lutheran doctrine on man's original state. § III The Calvinistic doctrine on the primitive state of man. (Jeff Allen)

§ IV On the causes of moral evil. (Jeff Allen)

Chapter II § V The Catholic doctrine on original sin. (Jeff Allen)

§ VI Doctrine of the Lutherans respecting original sin. (Jeff Allen)

§ VII Considerations on Heathenism... (Jeff Allen)

§ VIII Doctrine of the Calvinists on original sin. § IX Zwingli's view of original sin. (Jeff Allen)

Chapter III § X General statement of the mode in which... man becomes justified. (Jeff Allen)

§ XI Of the relation of the operation of God to that of man, in the work of regeneration... (Jeff Allen)

§ XII Doctrine of the Calvinists on the relation of grace to freedom, and human cooperation.-Predestination (Jeff Allen)

§ XIII Of The Catholic notion of predestination. (Jeff Allen)

§ XIV Doctrine of the Protestants on justification and sanctification. (Jeff Allen)

§ XV Catholic View of this subject. (Jeff Allen)

§ XVI Lutheran And Calvinistic view of faith. (Jeff Allen)

§ XVII Appreciation of the theoretic grounds. (Jeff Allen)

§ XVIII Appreciation of the practical grounds. (Jeff Allen)

§ XIX Survey of the differences & § XX Of the assurance of justification. (Jeff Allen)

§ XXI Doctrine of the Catholics respecting good works.& § XXII Doctrine of the Protestants respecting good works. (Jeff Allen)

§ XXIII Purgatory in connection with Catholic justification. (Jeff Allen)

§ XXIV Opposition between the communions. (Jeff Allen)

§ XXV The culminating point of inquiry. & § XXVI Analysis of truth and error in the Protestant doctrine of faith. (Jeff Allen)

§ XXVII Affinity of Protestantism with Gnosticism and Pantheism. (Jeff Allen)

§ XXVIII Catholics on the Sacraments. & § XXiX Lutherans on the Sacraments. (Jeff Allen)

§ XXX Further consequences of the Lutheran view, XXXI Zwingli & Calvin on the Sacraments & XXXII Baptism and Penance (Jeff Allen)

§ XXXIII Continuation of the doctrine of Penance. (Jeff Allen)

§ XXXIV Catholics on the Sacrament of the Altar, and on the Mass. (Jeff Allen)

§ XXXV Doctrine of the Lutherans, Zwinglians, and Calvinists, on the Eucharist. (Jeff Allen)

The audiobook Symbolism falls under the genres of Christianity - Commentary. It is written by Johann Adam Möhler, James Burton Robertson.

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