{"product_id":"2940011842481","title":"Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved","description":"These brief Discourses are included in the folio edition of Owen's Sermons, published in 1721, and are there, for obvious reasons, made to occupy a place by themselves. They were delivered at church meetings for the purposes of devotion and conference among Christian brethren (see p. 403); and they relate to a particular department of Christian ethics. Casuistry -- the science and doctrine of conscience -- is designed, as the name denotes, to resolve cases of doubt and uncertainty in regard to points of subjective morality. As a branch of theological inquiry and discussion, it has in a great measure fallen into disrepute. It came to be regarded with suspicion and odium from the use made of it by the Jesuits in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, who converted it into an engine of successful villany. It was denounced as \"the art of quibbling with God;\" and it was partly the casuistical system of the Jesuits against which Pascal, in his \"Provincial Letters,\" launched with scathing effect the bolts of his brilliant sarcasm.","brand":"Owen Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166751211760,"sku":"2940011842481","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011842481_p0.jpg?v=1763550251","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011842481","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}