A HANDBOOK OF FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGY – VOLUME IV

B. Herder Book Co., St. Louis, MO., 1932, 1^st, edited by Arthur Preuss.  Hard cover, 366 pages including Index.  Some edge and cover wear, spine darkened; wear at corners and spine ends with bits of board exposed and some tears to cloth, small loss to cloth at rear fore-edge; binding sound.  Prior owners’ inked name and ex-libris stamp on FEP and stamp on title page; some pencil marks and underlines in last quarter of book; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘In accordance with the purpose for which she was established, the Church directs her activity to the sanctification of men in this world and their eternal happiness in the next.  This activity takes place within the scope and on the basis of a social and organic union of superiors and subjects.  The superiors act as bearers of the three-fold authority of the Church, i.e., as teachers, priests, and shepherds, while the subjects in turn exercise the faith by worship and obedience.’ (from Introduction)