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A Manual of Catholic Theology: Based on Scheeben’s “Dogmatik”, Vol. I is unavailable, but you can change that!

A Manual of Catholic Theology is Joseph Wilhelm and Thomas B. Scannell’s classic two-volume English adaptation of Joseph Scheeben’s Dogmatik. In his preface to the Manual, Henry Edward quotes St. Anselm, saying, “… the right order of things requires that we should first believe the deep things of the Christian faith before we presume to discuss them by reason, so it seems to me to be negligence...

I. THE word “Theology” means the Science of God. This science has God not only for its subject, but also for its source and its object; hence the Divine character of Theology cannot better be described than by the old formula: “Theology teaches about God, is taught by God, and leads to God.”1 Theology may be taken objectively as doctrine, or subjectively as knowledge. But it is not every knowledge of Divine doctrine, especially not the mere apprehension
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