A Catholic Dictionary
Overview
William Addis and Thomas Arnold’s A Catholic Dictionary contains definitions and accounts of the doctrine, discipline, rites, ceremonies, councils, and religious orders of the Catholic Church.
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Top Highlights
“Hence, when we say that the Son is consubstantial with the Father, we confess His perfect equality and co-eternity with the first Person of the Trinity and at the same time exclude all imperfection from his eternal generation.” (Page 223)
“To the Catholic, sanctification and justification are the same thing, or at most two aspects of the same thing—viz. of the act by which God makes a soul just and holy in his sight. To the Lutheran or Calvinist, they are distinct, both in themselves and in the order of time at which they take place.” (Page 495)
“A man may use some but not enough industry in removing his ignorance, which in that case is said to be ‘simply vincible;’ he may take scarcely any pains to remove it: then his ignorance is ‘crass;’ he may positively wish to be ignorant, in order that he may sin more freely: then his ignorance is known as ‘affected.” (Page 424)
“The word Easter is derived from that of the Saxon goddess Eástre, the same deity whom the Germans proper called Ostarâ, and honoured (according to Grimm, in his ‘German Mythology’) as the divinity of the dawn.” (Page 283)
“We do not therefore, for a moment, dream of bringing any philological objection to the Protestant view, nor do we deny that the Scriptural idea of justification does imply legal acquittal. But why does God pronounce the sinner just? Not because he comes to trial with clean hands, for by the hypothesis he comes laden with guilt. Not because, being actually unjust, he is pronounced just on the ground of a legal fiction by which the merits of another are made over to his account, for such a procedure would be unworthy of a human, much more of divine, justice. The true answer surely is that God purifies the soul by turning it from love of self to divine love, and that thus He at the same moment renders and pronounces the sinner just.” (Page 496)
Praise for the Print Edition
We are disposed to think that, since Butler’s Lives of the Saints, there has not appeared in the English language any Catholic work so important as this.
—Dublin Review
A most important and valuable work, for which we have long been waiting.
—Andover Review
It is the only book that we know of that can be called a trustworthy source of information on Catholic Doctrine.
—Christian Advocate
Product Details
- Title: A Catholic Dictionary
- Authors: William E. Addis; Thomas Arnold
- Publisher: The Catholic Publication Society
- Publication Date: 1887
- Pages: 958
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Dictionaries
About the Authors
William E. Addis (1844–1917) was elected a fellow in mental and moral philosophy at Royal University of Ireland. He was the author of numerous works, including Anglicanism and the Fathers and Anglican Misrepresentation.
Thomas Arnold (1823–1900) was a lecturer in literature at Dublin University, and then was professor of English language and literature at University College of St. Stephen’s Green. He authored a widely used school textbook, A Manual of English Literature, and the autobiography, Passages of a Wandering Life.