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Until that time, from henceforth, publications on the web of the translations of the remaining distinctions will cease.

May

2010

New Publications

As Part of the Commentary Project

Master Peter Lombard’s

Second Book of Sentences

DISTINCTION XXXVI

Chapter 1: Certain acts are a sin an a punishment for sin,
certain ones a sin and a cause of sin, but others a sin and a cause of and a punishment for sin.
Chapter 2: Whether a sin is a cause of sin, inasmuch as it is a sin?
Chapter 3: That not every sin is a punishment for sin.
Chapter 4: Whether some sins are essentially punishments for sin?
Chapter 5: That, though a sin be a punishment for sin,
the sin is from the man, the punishment from God.
Chapter 6: On certain acts, which are undoubtedly sins and punishments,
and inasmuch as we suffer by them, are not sins.

St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio’s

Commentaries
on the Second Book of Sentences

DISTINCTION XXXVI: Whether sin is a punishment for sin?

ARTICLE I: On the comparison of the fault to the punishment according to identity.

Question 1: Whether a sin is the punishment for a sin?
Question 2: Whether the passions of the soul are only punishments, or whether they are at once punishments and sins?

ARTICLE II: On the comparison of the fault to the punishment according to inseparability.

Question 1: Whether in any act one happens to posit a fault without a subsequent punishment?
Question 2: Whether there can be a punishment in anyone without a preceding fault?

ARTICLE III: On the comparison of the punishment to the equity of the Divine Justice.

Question 1: Whether any punishment is from God?
Question 2: Whether every punishment is from God?

DOUBTS on the text of Master Peter's Thirty-Sixth Distinction

As Part of the Commentary Project

Master Peter Lombard’s

Second Book of Sentences

DISTINCTION XXXVII

Chapter 1: That some think,
that evil acts are in no manner from God.
Chapter 2: Out of what sense has it been said:
“God is not the author of evil”?

St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio’s

Commentaries
on the Second Book of Sentences

DISTINCTION XXXVVII: Whether the action substrate to malice is from God

ARTICLE I: Whether every action, according to which it is an action, is from God?

Question 1: Whether every action, according to which it is an action is from God?
Question 2: Whether the conservation of every thing is from God?
Question 3: Whether every composition is from God

ARTICLE II: Whether a defective action is one to be attributed to God?

Question 1: Whether an unjust action, according to which it is unjust, is from God?
Question 2: Whether a fortuitous operation, according to which it is fortuitous, is from God?
Question 3: Whether a false enunciation, according to which it is false, is from God?

DOUBTS on the text of Master Peter's Thirty-Seventh Distinction

April	2010
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As Part of the Commentary Project Master Peter Lombard’s Second Book of Sentences DISTINCTION XXXIV Chapter 1: On actual sin. Chapter 2: What the origin and cause of the first sin was. Chapter 3: What was the secondary cause of evils? Chapter 4: On which account the cause of evils is not but in a good thing? Chapter 5: That in these matters the rule of dialectics concerning contraries deceives. St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio’s Commentaries on the Second Book of Sentences DISTINCTION XXXIV: On actual sin according to its causality ARTICLE I: On original principle of evil. Question 1: Whether evil is from the good as from an origin? Question 2: Whether sin is from the will, as effecting and/or defecting? Question 3: Whether an evil is from a good according to intention, and/or apart from intention? ARTICLE II: On evil in comparison to the subject, in which it is. Question 1: Whether something is so evil, that it has nothing of the good? Question 2: Whether evil is in the good opposed to it? Question 3: Whether evil is in a good as some habit or whether it is a pure privation? DOUBTS on the text of Master Peter's Thirty-Fourth Distinction	As Part of the Commentary Project Master Peter Lombard’s Second Book of Sentences DISTINCTION XXXV Chapter 1: What is a sin? Chapter 2: On sin. Chapter 3: Whether an evil act, inasmuch as it is a sin, is a corruption and/or privation of the good? Chapter 4: In what manner can sin corrupt a good, since it is nothing? Chapter 5: In what kind of manner man distances himself from God. Chapter 6: Whether a punishment is a deprivation of a good? St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio’s Commentaries on the Second Book of Sentences DISTINCTION XXXV: On actual sin according to its quiddity and definition, by St. Bonaventure ARTICLE I: Whether the good is corrupted through sin? Question 1: Whether a sin is a corruption of a good? Question 2: Whether a sin is the very corruption-passion, essentially speaking? Question 3: Whether a sin on account of this, that it corrupts a good, is contraried with the Uncreated Good? ARTICLE II: On the manner, in which a sin corrupts a good. Question 1: Whether the measure, beauty and order of a good are corrupted through any evil, together and inseparably? Question 2: Whether the measure, beauty and order of a good are corrupted equally through sin? Question 3: Whether the measure, beauty and order (of a good) can be totally corrupted through evil? DOUBTS on the text of Master Peter's Thirty-Fifth Distinction
As Part of the Commentary Project Master Peter Lombard’s Second Book of Sentences DISTINCTION XXXIII Chapter 1: Whether little ones bear from their origin the sins of all their preceding parents, as they do the sin of Adam? Chapter 2: In what manner, in that one first sin, several are found. Chapter 3: Whether the sin of Adam is more grave than all the others? Chapter 4: Whether that sin was forgiven for our first parents? Chapter 5: In what manner are the sins of parents visited and not visited upon their sons?	As Part of the Commentary Project St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio’s Commentaries on the Second Book of Sentences DISTINCTION XXXIII: Whether original sin is multiplied and intensified through the sins of one’s nearest parents? ARTICLE I: On original sin in regard to its preceding cause. Question 1: Whether the sins of their nearest parents are imputed to sons and/or are transmitted to them? Question 2: Whether our first parent could have satisfied for his descendents, just as he was able to vitiate them out of his own fault? ARTICLE II: On the quantity of original sin. Question 1: Whether original sin is found in all equally? Question 2: Whether it must be posited that original sin is one, and/or several? ARTICLE III: On the punishment for original sin. Question 1: Whether little ones, dying in original sin alone, are punished with the punishment of the material fire? Question 2: Whether little ones, dying in original sin alone, are punished with any interior sorrow? DOUBTS on the text of Master Peter's Thirty-Third Distinction
March	2010
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As Part of the Commentary Project Master Peter Lombard’s Second Book of Sentences DISTINCTION XXXII Chapter 1: In what manner original sin is forgiven in Baptism.. Chapter 2: Whether the foulness, which one contracts out of the violent passion of one’s parents, is washed away in Baptism? Chapter 3: Whether God is the author of that concupiscence. Chapter 4: Why is that sin imputed to the soul? Chapter 5: Whether the former sin is necessary, and/or voluntary? Chapter 6: Why God joins the soul to the body, knowing that it will be stained thereby. Chapter 7: Whether souls on account of (their) creation are equal in natural gifts?	As Part of the Commentary Project St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio’s Commentaries on the Second Book of Sentences DISTINCTION XXXII: In what kind of manner is original sin cured? ARTICLE I: On the blotting out of the original fault. Question 1: Whether Baptism blots out original sin as much as regards the fault? Question 2: Whether original sin is blotted out through Baptism, as much as regards its cause? ARTICLE II: On the deadly disease of concupiscence. Question 1: Whether concupiscence is in the soul, and/or in the flesh as in its subject? Question 2: Whether concupiscence is from God? ARTICLE III: On the equity of the Divine Judgment in the infusion and punishment of the soul. Question 1: Whether God ought to impute that stain to the soul, which it contracts out of the flesh? Question 2: Whether it befits the Divine Justice to infuse a soul into such a flesh? DOUBTS on the text of Master Peter's Thirty-Second Distinction
October	2009
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	There is a wonderful site on the Early Capuchin Reform, published by Br. Paul Hanbridge, OFM Cap., of the College of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Rome, Italy, entitled Capdox.com In addition to all the early Capuchin Constitutions, one can find other documents which are also of interest to the other branches of the Order: A Short Discourse Concerning the Observance of the Vow of Poverty of the Friars Minor, translated by Fr. Patrick Colbourne, OFM Cap: (English PDF): w. footnotes and citations. The Art of Union & A Small Catechism, by Giovanni da Fano (English: PDF),

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Die opuskula des hl. Franziskus von Assisi. Neue textkritische Edition.
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