Works of Bonaventure: Commentary on the Sentences: Sacraments

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Abbreviations

General Introduction

Historical Introduction

Theological Introduction

THEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION TO SACRAMENTS

Distinctions One and Two

Distinction One – The Sacraments in General

Question One – Institution of the sacraments

Question Two – Signification of the sacraments

Question Three – Content of the sacraments

Question Four – Efficacy of the sacraments

Question Five – Difference between Old and New

Question Six – Grace conferred

Distinction Two – The Sacraments in Particular

Question One – Institution in any time period

Question Two – Institution in different times

Question Three – Institution in time of grace

THEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION TO BAPTISM

Distinctions Three, Four, and Six

Distinction Three – Integrity and form of Baptism

Question One – Water or dipping

Question Two – Spoken word and integrity

Question Three – Necessity of faith

Question One – Expression of word

Question Two – Expression of Trinity

Question Three – Variations in form

Distinction Four – Infant Baptism

Question One – Sanctification of infants

Question Three – Equal grace given

Distinction Six – Concerning character

Question One – Essence of character

Question Two – Purpose of character

Question Six – Repetition of Baptism

THEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION TO CONFIRMATION

Distinction Seven

Distinction Seven – Concerning Confirmation

Question One – Necessity of a form of words

Question Two – Necessary matter of Confirmation

Question Three – Minister of Confirmation

THEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION TO THE EUCHARIST

Distinctions Eight through Thirteen

Distinction Eight – On the Eucharist in General

Question One – Prefiguration of Eucharist

Question Two – Four prefigurations

Question Three – Preeminence of figures

Question One – Instituted from the beginning

Question Two – Instituted before the Passion

Question Three – Eucharist before the spoken word

Question One – Form of word over bread

Question Two – Form of word over wine

Question One – What are res and sacramentum

Question Two – Unity of the sacrament

Distinction Nine – On the eating of the Eucharist

Question One – Twofold manner of eating

Question Two – To eat spiritually

Question Three – To eat sacramentally

Distinction Ten – Presence of Christ in the sacrament

Question One – Presence according to truth

Question Two – Body present in natural quantity

Question Three – Limited under the species

Distinction Eleven – Conversion and confection

Question One – True conversion of bread

Question Two – Conversion of the whole bread

Question Three – Whether this change is annihilation

Question Four – Changed into the whole Christ

Question Five – Sudden or successive conversion

Question Six – Which verbs describe conversion

Question One – Celebration with bread and wine

Question Two – Species and integrity of the sacrament

Question Three – Water and integrity of the sacrament

Question Four – Celebration with any bread and wine

Question One – Christ’s use of leavened or unleavened bread

Question Two – Which body did Christ give?

Distinction Twelve – Accidents, efficacy, and use

Question One – Whether Christ’s body is broken

Question Two – True breaking in the species

Question Three – What the broken parts signify

Question One – Efficacy in any just person

Question Two – Efficacy in the sinner

Question Three – Efficacy of this sacrament

Question One – Obligation to approach this sacrament

Question Two – Frequent or infrequent approach

Question Three – Abstaining due to bodily filth

Distinction Thirteen – Confecting and eating

Question One – Whether every priest can confect

Question Two – Whether only priests can confect

Question Three – Power to consecrate in priest or in word

Question Four – Mass of a good or a bad priest

Question One – Into the stomach of a mouse

Question Two – Into the human stomach

THEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION TO THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE

Distinctions Fourteen through Twenty-Two

Distinction Twenty-Two – On Penance

Question One – Penance in its institution

Question Two – Significance of sacrament of Penance

THEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION TO THE SACRAMENT OF EXTREME UNCTION

Distinction Twenty-Three

Distinction Twenty-Three – On Extreme Unction

Question One – Extreme Unction for corporeal or spiritual illness

Question Two – Instituted by Christ or a disciple

Question Three – Material element of Extreme Unction

Question Four – Form of the word and essence

Question One – Who ought to administer

Question Two – Who receives this sacrament

Question Three – Where anointed on the body

Question Four – Frequency of this sacrament

THEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION TO THE SACRAMENT OF ORDER

Distinctions Twenty-Four and Twenty-Five

Distinction Twenty-Four – On Orders

Question One – Whether there is Order in the Church

Question Two – Whether Order is a sacrament

Question Three – Order proper to the New Law

Question Four – Whether one sacrament or several

Question One – Character impressed in all orders

Question Two – Different characters in diverse orders

Question Three – Characters essentially ordered

Question Four – When character is imprinted

Question One – Sacred and non-sacred orders

Question Two – Whether psalm chanter is an order

Question Three – Whether the episcopacy is an order

Question Four – Seven orders, or more, or fewer

Distinction Twenty-Five – On Orders

Question One – Male sex required to receive Order

Question Two – Use of reason necessary for reception

Question Three – Undivided flesh necessary for reception

THEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION TO MATRIMONY

Distinctions Twenty-Six through Twenty-Eight

Distinction Twenty-Six – On Matrimony

Question One – When Matrimony was established

Question Two – Who instituted Matrimony

Question Three – Whether instituted under precept

Question One – The sign and the signified

Question Two – Agent of causality and the thing caused

Question Three – Intercourse and integrity of Matrimony

Distinction Twenty-Seven – On Matrimony

Question One – Conjoining of male and female

Question One – Consent as cause of Matrimony

Question Two – Vocal and mental consent

Question One – Whether consummated marriage is indissoluble

Question Two – Whether ratified marriage is indissoluble

Distinction Twenty-Eight – Concerning consent

Question One – Consent for the future

Question Two – Consent for a period of time

Question Three – Conditional consent

Question Four – Tacit consent

Question Five – Consent in secret

Question Six – Consent to carnal intercourse

Index of Biblical Passages

Index of Ecclesiastical Authors

Index of Non-Ecclesiastical Writers
(Philosophers, Grammarians)