gounod Charles (1818-1893).

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gounod Charles (1818-1893).
27 autograph MANUSCRITS; about 550 pages in-4 or in-fol. Very important set of theological and religious writings. [1844-1847]. Voluminous dossier of works, when Gounod was thinking of becoming a priest; one is signed as an abbot: "Ab. Ch. Gounod"; in Latin or in French, these notebooks are written for the most part in blue ink, in a very fine and tight handwriting. - Tractatus de Vera Religione, Compendium (30 p., partly in French : " De l'établissement et de la propagation du Christianisme ", " De l'Abrogation de la Loi mosaïque "). - Theologia Dogmatica. Tractatus primus. De Vera Religione (9 p.). - Theologia Moralis. Tractatus primus. De Actibus Humanis (64 p., partly in French: "À quel degré obligent les Lois humaines?", "Des sujets des Lois humaines"...). - Theological summary of the Treatise on True Religion (2 p.). - On the Truthfulness of the Books of the New Testament (11 p.). - Prolegomena. Of Theology, and Theological Places (19 p.). - Catechism of the Holy Council of Trent (40, 33 and 4 p.). - Appendix on Probabilism (10 p.). - Notes on the Comparative History of Religions (19 p.). - Principles. Character of the true Principles... (2 p.). - Idea of Law (4 p.). - Holy Scripture: notes on the Pentateuch, the Gospels and Saint Paul (36 p.). - Notes on Saint Thomas Aquinas and his Summa Theologica (25, 8 and 4 p.). Plus the cover of a Traité de la Conscience. Unfinished draft of a work on Faith and Reason, including an Introduction and two books: I La Certitude, and II Les Mystères, [ca. 1885] (95 p.). Monday, April 27, 1874. St Leonard's on Sea, account of an illumination: "This morning, when I woke up, in an instant, there was a clarity in me that I did not know yet [...] it was as if God himself had taken me in his arms"... (2 versions, the first longer, 4 and 2 p). - Of the mystery considered as a necessity for the Reason (7 p.). - Dogmas and Precepts. Correspondence between a Catholic and a Freethinker (25 p., with a small preparatory notebook (5 p.). - On Prayer (21 p.). - The Reason in front of the Catholic Doctrine (Preface) (4 p.). - Of the rationalist Exegesis and its progress in modern times (4 p.). - On the hostility towards the Teaching of the Church (10 p.). - On the substantial Identity of the Catholic Faith and Reason (12 p.). - The Absolute Truths, or Dogmas. Introduction (7 p.). - Discussion: "The fact of the Discussion contains, by itself, the proof of the unity and the universality of the Truth in the human Spirit"... (23 p.). - Of the Faith (7 p.). - Of Faith and Credulity (7 p., incomplete). - Meditations (4 p.). Attached: - a small file of various autograph notes; - the manuscript by a copyist of his translation of the Ten Sermons on the Feast of Christmas by Saint Leo, with autograph "Foreword by the Translator" (3 and 73 p.); - the autograph copy of the introduction to the 2nd edition of De l'Unité spirituelle by Blanc Saint-Bonnet; a manuscript (by Victoire Gounod) La Foi.
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