Symbolism: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Symbolism, credited to Johann Adam Möhler, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Symbolism by Johann Adam Möhler. (Translated by James Burton Robertson.) Read in English by Jeff Allen. Johann Adam Möhler was professor theology at the Tübingen University where both Catholics and Protestants taught and studied. In 1832 he published Symbolism; a work that examined the doctrines of original sin, grace and free will as held by the different Christian confessions. It caused a storm of controversy in the Protestant nations of Europe. In it he turned the weapons furnished by Hegel, the “Protestant Aquinas”, against Protestantism. His method and style were supported by the use of facts, texts, and documents. By 1838 Symbolism had been translated to 8 languages and its author had died before he completed its 5th edition. In an age when the Catholic Church found itself divided into two camps, the “German” and the “Roman”, Döllinger, a former pupil of Möhler’s, when addressing a group of scholars at Munich in 1863 once famously quipped that the former were defending Catholicism with rifles while the latter were still using bows and arrows. The “Romans”, however, would succeed in silencing thier “German” brethren at the First Vatican Council and cut off a branch bearing good fruit. A rediscovery of the “German” school is long overdue and there is no better place to start than Möhler’s Symbolism. (Summary by Jeff Allen)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Symbolism
• Author credits: Johann Adam Möhler
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 13:31:15

Catalogue topics

• Catholic
• christian
• theology
• 19th century
• symbolism
• hegel
• möhler
• döllinger

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 01 - Introductory Note by the Translator — 7:59
2. 02 - Author's Prefaces to the First through Fourth Editions, Editor's Preface to the Fifth Edition — 31:37
3. 03 - Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 1 — 30:17
4. 04 - Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 2 — 39:33
5. 05 - Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 3 — 35:14
6. 06 - Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 4 — 33:47
7. 07 - Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 5 — 28:48
8. 08 - Memoir of Dr. Moehler, Part 6 — 31:17
9. 09 - Introduction, Part I- Nature, Extent and Sources of Symbolism. — 29:42
10. 10 - Introduction, Part II - Symbolical Writings of Catholics and Protestants. — 28:06
11. 11 - Book I, Part I, § I - Primitive State of Man According to the Catholic Doctrine. — 16:06
12. 12 - § II Lutheran doctrine on man's original state. § III The Calvinistic doctrine on the primitive state of man. — 13:11
13. 13 - § IV On the causes of moral evil. — 14:41
14. 14 - Chapter II § V The Catholic doctrine on original sin. — 23:45
15. 15 - § VI Doctrine of the Lutherans respecting original sin. — 23:20
16. 16 - § VII Considerations on Heathenism... — 16:39
17. 17 - § VIII Doctrine of the Calvinists on original sin. § IX Zwingli's view of original sin. — 17:35
18. 18 - Chapter III § X General statement of the mode in which... man becomes justified. — 10:15
19. 19 - § XI Of the relation of the operation of God to that of man, in the work of regeneration... — 21:32
20. 20 - § XII Doctrine of the Calvinists on the relation of grace to freedom, and human cooperation.-Predestination — 10:32
21. 21 - § XIII Of The Catholic notion of predestination. — 19:59
22. 22 - § XIV Doctrine of the Protestants on justification and sanctification. — 21:46
23. 23 - § XV Catholic View of this subject. — 15:53
24. 24 - § XVI Lutheran And Calvinistic view of faith. — 17:25

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