Chapter 11: On the distribution of sacred theology
CHAPTER ELEVEN On the distribution of sacred theology
So far we have seen the definition, nature, and principles of sacred theology.
The parts follow, of which there are two: the common and the proper.
Since sacred theology is a practical discipline of its own kind, as was shown above in chapter 1, section 3, it is to be treated, by the common judgment even of the philosophers who are masters of the best order, in the analytic order.
According to that order both the whole doctrine itself and all its parts will be treated from its chief end, and each head will occupy the place that suits it by its primary relation to its own whole and to the end of the whole
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CAPUT UNDECIMUM. De S. Theologiae distributione. Hactenus vidimus S. Theologiae definitionem, naturam & principia: sequuntur partes, quarum duae sunt, communis & propria. Cum sacra Theologia sit disciplina practica sui generis, ut supra demonstratum est cap. 1. §. 3. de communi sententia etiam philosophorum, qui optimi ordinis magistri sunt, ordine analytico tractanda est: secundum quem ordinem tum ipsa doctrina tota, tum omnes ejus partes ex fine suo praecipuo tractabuntur, singulaque capita eum locum occupabunt, qui ipsis secundum principalem respectum tum ad totum suum, tum ad finem totius conveniet.