Outlines of moral science by Alexander Archibald 1772-1851

Author:Alexander, Archibald, 1772-1851. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian ethics, Ethics
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner
Published: 1860-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

their very essence is evil, and is condemned by the moral sense of mankind.

A clear understanding of this distinction might have prevented or reconciled an old dispute, viz. whether concupiscence*

Concupiscence.

was of the nature of sin, in the first rising of desire, prior to any act of the will.

* It may remove ambiguity to say that the word concupiscence is here used not in its popular and modern, but its theological acceptation. The controversy to which allusion is made began early in the schools, and was actively waged at the time of the Reformation. The following references will enable the reader to inquire further: Augustini, Opp. x., ed. Benedict, pp. 387, 1029, 1828, 1881, 1955.— Catechismus Gone, Trident, ed. Lips. 1851, pp. 385, 386.— Chemnitii Examen. ed. Genev., 1641, pp. 88, 89, 90, 94, 95.—Turretlini Instt. P. ii Qu. 21.— Bretschneider, Syst. Entwickelung; 4 ed. 1841, pp. 540, 541.

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