The Complete Works Of Francisco Suárez - On Religion, Part III, Volume XV - Francisco Suárez

This fifteenth volume completes Suárez’s treatise On Religion, concluding his systematic scholastic study of the virtue of religion within moral theology. It gathers and refines the final discussions on how human beings rightly order their worship and service of God.

The work focuses on the interior dimension of religion, especially devotion, prayer, and the interior disposition required for authentic worship. Suárez examines how external acts of religion must flow from interior virtue, emphasizing sincerity, reverence, and the ordering of the will toward God.

It also addresses religious life in its more structured forms, including the role of ecclesiastical discipline, the value of consecrated states of life, and the proper integration of religious observance within the broader moral life. Suárez further clarifies remaining disputed questions about the moral evaluation of religious acts and their degrees of obligation.

Throughout the volume, Suárez maintains his characteristic precision and systematic approach, unifying moral theology with metaphysical and juridical principles. As the final part of On Religion, it presents a complete account of worship as the virtue that directs both interior and exterior human acts toward the reverent acknowledgment of God’s supreme majesty.