The Catholic World, Vol. 04, October, 1866 to March, 1867
The next article of the creed is, Creatorem coeli et terrae: Creator of heaven and earth.
The mystery of the Trinity exhausts the idea of the activity of God within his own interior being, or ad intra . The dogma of creation expresses the idea of the activity of God without his own interior being, or ad extra . It is an explication of the primitive idea of reason which presents simultaneously to intelligence the absolute and the contingent in their necessary relation of the dependence of the contingent upon the absolute. Being an explication of the rational idea, it is rationally demonstrable, and does not, therefore, belong to the super-intelligible part of the revelation, or that which is believed simply on the veracity of God. That portion of the dogma of creation which is super-intelligible, or revealed truth in the highest sense, relates to the supernatural end to which the creation is determined by the decree of God. Nevertheless, although the idea of creation, once proposed, is demonstrable on purely rational principles, it is fairly and fully proposed to reason under an adequate and explicit conception adequately expressed, only by divine revelation. Wherever this adequate formula of revelation has been lost, the conception has been lost with it, and not even the highest philosophy has restored it. Plato's conception of the formation of the universe went no higher than the impression of divine ideas upon matter eternally self existent. In all philosophy which is not regulated by the principles of revelation, the ideas of necessary being and contingent existence and of the relation between them are more or less confused, and the dogma of creation is corrupted.
The pure, theistic conception gives at once the pure conception of creation.
This creative act of God is that by which he reduces possibility to actuality. It is evident that this possibility of creation, or creability of finite existences extrinsic to the divine essence, is necessary and eternal. For God could not think of doing that which he does not think as possible, and his thoughts are eternal. The thought or idea of creation is therefore eternal in the divine mind. It is a divine and eternal archetype or ideal, which the externised, concrete reality copies and represents. The divine essence is the complete and adequate object of the divine contemplation.
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THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
CONTENTS
POETRY
NEW PUBLICATIONS
THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. IV., NO. 19.—OCTOBER, 1866.
SILENT GRIEF.
THE MYSTERY OF THE THATCHED HOUSE.
AUBREY DE VERE.
ORIGINAL.
DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN CONNECTICUT.
A SUMMER SORROW.
THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF BOOKS.
ORIGINAL.
LUCIFER MATUTINUS.
TRAVELLERS' TALES.
ORIGINAL.
ANNIVERSARY.
ST. CATHARINE AT FLORENCE.
MISCELLANY.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
BOOKS RECEIVED
THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. IV., NO. 20.—NOVEMBER, 1866.
ORIGINAL.
PROBLEMS OF THE AGE.
SONG.
COWARDICE AND COURAGE.
ORIGINAL.
SAINT LUCY.
MY TEARS.
LEGEND OF COUNT JULIAN AND HIS FAMILY.
ORIGINAL.
RECENT EUROPEAN EVENTS.
THE SUMMER DAYS ARE GONE.
UNCONVICTED; OR, OLD THORNELEY'S HEIRS.
DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONALITIES.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND CHRISTIAN REVELATION
ORIGINAL.
HOME AT LAST.
ORIGINAL.
SONNET.
THE MUSÉE RETROSPECTIF IN PARIS.
MISCELLANY.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. IV., NO. 21.—DECEMBER, 1866.
ORIGINAL.
PROBLEMS OF THE AGE.
THE FAIREST FAIR.
AUTUMN.
PROTESTANT PROSELYTISM IN EASTERN LANDS [Footnote 103]
ORIGINAL.
DELIA.
ORIGINAL.
MADEMOISELLE DE MONTPENSIER.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND CHRISTIAN REVELATION.
THE VIRGIN'S CRADLE HYMN.
CELTIC ANTHOLOGY AND POETIC REMAINS.
PEA-BLOSSOM.
ORIGINAL.
A MONTH AT A FRENCH WATERING-PLACE.
AVE MARIA SINE LABE CONCEPTA.
ORIGINAL.
ORIGINAL.
MY TWO MITES.
MISCELLANY.
ORIGINAL.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
THE CATHOLIC WORLD
VOL. IV, NO. 22.—JANUARY, 1867.
ORIGINAL.
A CHRISTMAS SONG.
ORIGINAL.
CHARITY AND PHILANTHROPY.
CHRISTMAS WITH THE BARON.
EPIGRAM.
THE CHRISTMAS TREE.
ORIGINAL.
CHRISTMAS BELL.
ORIGINAL.
ORIGINAL.
ON ST. PETER'S DENIAL.
CHRIST IS BORN.
THE DYING YEAR.
THE HOLY LAND.
ORIGINAL.
ON THE APPARITION OF OUR LORD TO THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS.
ORIGINAL.
LITTLE SUNBEAM'S CHRISTMAS STORY.
ORIGINAL.
CHRISTIAN CHARITY.
ORIGINAL.
PROBLEMS OF THE AGE.
MY CHRISTMAS TREE.
THE LITTLE BIRDS ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
BARABBAS AND I.
AËROLITES.
DELIVERANCE.
ORIGINAL.
WHAT CAME OF A LAUGH ON A CHRISTMAS EVE.
A CHRISTMAS DREAM.
VICTIMS OF DOUBT.
WHAT MOST REJOICES THE HEART OF MAN?
THE REPUBLIC OF ANDORRA.
ORIGINAL.
CATHOLIC CHRISTMAS.
MISCELLANY
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE CATHOLIC WORLD
VOL. IV., NO. 23—FEBRUARY, 1867.
THE POPE AND THE REVOLUTION
THE SOURCE OF LABOR.
ORIGINAL.
POEM.
ORIGINAL.
ORIGINAL.
PARDON.
SEA-SIDE FLOWERS.
ORIGINAL.
ON THE REQUEST OF THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS.
ORIGINAL.
THE CHURCH AND MONARCHY.
"DEO OPT. MAX"
ROBERT; OR, THE INFLUENCE OF A GOOD MOTHER.
ONE MOMENT.
PROBLEMS OF THE AGE. [Footnote 178]
ORIGINAL.
MY AUNT'S WORK-BOX.
HOW MY AUNT PILCHER FOUND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
A PORTRAIT OF FRA ANGELICO.
ORIGINAL.
"I AM THE WAY."
ORIGINAL.
ORIGINAL.
SYRACUSE AND AETNA.
THE FIRST SIEGE OF LIMERICK.
ORIGINAL.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. IV., NO. 24.—MARCH, 1867.
ORIGINAL.
THE CATHOLIC CEREMONIAL.
MADAME DE SWETCHINE.
ORIGINAL.
THE CRY.
ORIGINAL.
ORIGINAL.
ON THE CURE OF BARTIMEUS.
ORIGEN AT CAESAREA.
ORIGINAL.
THE TALE OF A TOMBSTONE.
ORIGINAL.
LIGHT.
ROBERT; OR, THE INFLUENCE OF A GOOD MOTHER.
"INCONSOLABILE."
ORIGINAL.
ORIGINAL.
THE TEST.
ORIGINAL.
WHAT I HEARD ABOUT RITUALISM IN A CITY CAR.
ORIGINAL.
THE BARREN FIG-TREE AND THE CROSS.
MISCELLANY.
ORIGINAL.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.