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- VOLUME XI
- GENERAL EDITORS
- GENERAL EDITORS' PREFACE
- CONTENTS PART I. QUESTIONS 1-4; 20-23 GENERAL INTRODUCTION, 21 Q. I: WHAT SACRED DOCTRINE IS, AND WHAT IT CONCERNS
- General Introduction
- Part I. Questions 1-4; 20-23 cQuestion One WHAT SACRED DOCTRINE IS, AND WHAT IT CONCERNS
- Article One Whether Another Doctrine is Necessary, besides the Philosophical Sciences
- Article Two Whether Sacred Doctrine is a Science
- Article Three Whether Sacred Doctrine is a Single Science
- Article Four Whether Sacred Doctrine is a Practical Science
- Article Five Whether Sacred Doctrine is Nobler than other Sciences
- Article Six Whether Sacred Doctrine is Wisdom
- Article Seven Whether God is the Subject of This Science
- Article Eight Whether Sacred Doctrine Proceeds by Argument
- Article Nine Whether Sacred Doctrine should Use Metaphors
- Article Ten Whether One Passage of Sacred Scripture may have Several Interpretations
- Question Two THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
- Article One Whether it is Self-Evident that God Exists
- Article Two Whether God's Existence can be Demonstrated
- Article Three Whether God Exists
- Question Three OF THE SIMPLE NATURE OF GOD
- Article One Whether God is a Body
- Article Two Whether there is Composition of Form and Matter in God
- Article Three Whether God is the Same as his Essence, or Nature
- Article Four Whether Essence and Existence are the Same in God
- Article Five Whether God Belongs to a Genus
- Article Six Whether there is any Accident in God
- Article Seven Whether God is Altogether Simple
- Article Eight Whether God Enters into the Composition of Other Things
- Question Four THE PERFECTION OF GOD
- Article One Whether God is Perfect
- Article Two Whether the Perfections of all Things are in God
- Article Three Whether any Creature can be Like God
- Appendix to Q. 4, Art. 3 Q. 12, Art. 12. (Whether, in this life, God can be known through natural reason.)
- Question Twenty THE LOVE OF GOD
- Article One Whether there is Love in God
- Article Two Whether God Loves all Things
- Article Three Whether God Loves All Things Equally
- Article Four Whether God Always Loves Better Things the More
- Question Twenty-One THE JUSTICE AND MERCY OF GOD
- Article One Whether There Is Justice in God
- Article Two Whether God's Justice is Truth
- Article Three Whether there is Mercy in God
- Article Four Whether Justice and Mercy are Present in all God's Works
- Question Twenty-Two OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE
- Article One Whether Providence is Appropriately Ascribed to God
- Article Two Whether All Things are under Divine Providence
- Article Three Whether God Provides for All Things Directly
- Article Four Whether Providence Imposes a Necessity on what it Provides
- Question Twenty-Three OF PREDESTINATION
- Article One Whether Men are Predestined by God
- Article Two Whether Predestination Implies Anything in the Predestined
- Article Three Whether God Rejects Any Man
- Article Four Whether the Predestined are Chosen by God
- Article Five Whether the Foreknowledge of Merits is the Cause of Predestination
- Article Six Whether Predestination is Certain
- Article Seven Whether the Number of the Predestined is Certain
- Article Eight Whether Predestination can be Furthered by the Prayers of the Devout
- Of Sin. Prima Secundae, Questions 82, 83. Question Eighty-Two THE ESSENCE OF ORIGINAL SIN
- Article One Whether Original Sin is a Habit
- Article Two Whether there are Many Original Sins in One Man
- Article Three Whether Original Sin is Desire
- Article Four Whether Original Sin is in All Men Equally
- Question Eighty-Five THE EFFECTS OF SIN
- Article One Whether Sin Diminishes Natural Good
- Article Two Whether the Whole Good of Human Nature can be Destroyed by Sin
- Article Three Whether Weakness, Ignorance, Malice, and Desire are Rightly Named as the Wounds of Nature Due to Sin
- Article Four Whether Privation of Mode, Species, and Order is the Effect of Sin
- Article Five Whether Death and Other Defects of the Body are the Effects of Sin
- Article Six Whether Death and Other Defects are Natural to Man
- Treatise on Grace. Prima Secundae Questions 109--114. Question One Hundred and Nine CONCERNING THE EXTERNAL PRINCIPLE OF HUMAN ACTIONS, THAT IS, THE GRACE OF GOD
- Article One Whether a Man can Know any Truth without Grace
- Article Two Whether a Man can Will or do Good without Grace
- Article Three Whether a Man can Love God above All Things by His Natural Powers alone, without Grace
- Article Four Whether a Man can fulfil the Commandments of the Law by His Natural Powers, without Grace
- Article Five Whether a Man can Merit Eternal Life, without Grace
- Article Six Whether without Grace a Man can Prepare Himself for Grace
- Article Seven Whether a Man can rise from Sin without the Help of Grace
- Article Eight Whether a Man can avoid Sin, without Grace
- Article Nine Whether, after receiving Grace, a Man can do Good and avoid Sin, without further help of Grace
- Article Ten Whether a Man in Grace needs the help of Grace in order to Persevere
- Question One Hundred and Ten THE ESSENCE OF GOD'S GRACE
- Article One Whether Grace denotes Something in the Soul
- Article Two Whether Grace is a Quality of the Soul
- Article Three Whether Grace is the same as Virtue
- Article Four Whether Grace is in the Soul's Essence as its Subject, or in One of its Powers
- Question One Hundred and Eleven THE DIVISIONS OF GRACE
- Article One Whether Grace is appropriately divided into Sanctifying Grace and Free Grace
- Article Two Whether Grace is appropriately divided into Operative and Co-operative Grace
- Article Three Whether Grace is Appropriately Divided into Prevenient and Subsequent Grace
- Article Four Whether Free Grace is Appropriately Divided by the Apostle
- Article Five Whether Free Grace is Nobler than Sanctifying Grace
- Question One Hundred and Twelve THE CAUSE OF GRACE
- Article One Whether God is the Sole Cause of Grace
- Article Two Whether a Preparation or Disposition for Grace is required on the part of man
- Article Three Whether Grace is Bound to be given to One Who Prepares Himself for Grace, or Who does what He can
- Article Four Whether Grace is greater in One Man than in Another
- Article Five Whether a Man can know that He has Grace
- Question One Hundred and Thirteen THE EFFECTS OF GRACE
- Article One Whether the Justification of the Ungodly is the Remission of Sins
- Article Two Whether an Infusion of Grace is required for the Remission of Guilt, which is the Justification of the Ungodly
- Article Three Whether a Movement of the Free Will is required for the Justification of the Ungodly
- Article Four Whether a Movement of Faith is reojuired for the Justification of the Ungodly
- Article Five Whether a Movement of the Free Will against Sin is required for the justification of the ungodly
- Article Six Whether the Remission of Sins should be Numbered with the things reequired for the Justification of the Ungodly
- Article Seven Whether the Justification of the Ungodly is achieved Instantaneously or Gradually
- Article Eight Whether the Infusion of Grace is the First of the Things required for the Justification of the Ungodly, According to the Order of Nature
- Article Nine Whether the Justification of the Ungodly is the Greatest Work of God
- Article Ten Whether the Justification of the Ungodly is a Miracle
- Question One Hundred and Fourteen CONCERNING MERIT, WHICH IS THE EFFECT OF CO-OPERATIVE GRACE
- Article One Whether a Man can Merit Anything from God
- Article Two Whether One can Merit Eternal Life without Grace
- Article Three Whether a Man in Grace can Merit Eternal Life Condignly
- Article Four Whether Grace is the Principle of Merit through Charity more Principally than through Other Virtues
- Article Five Whether a Man can Merit the First Grace for Himself
- Article Six Whether a Man can Merit the First Grace for Another
- Article Seven Whether a Man can Merit His Restoration after a Lapse
- Article Eight Whether a Man can Merit an Increase of Grace or Charity
- Article Nine Whether a Man can Merit Perseverance
- Article Ten Whether Temporal Goods can be Merited
- Treatise on the Theological Virtues cI. On Faith. Secunda Secundae, Questions 1-7. Question One THE OBJECT OF FAITH
- Article One Whether the Object of Faith is the First Truth
- Article Two Whether the Object of Faith is Something Complex, in the Form of a Proposition
- Article Three Whether what is False can be Held in Faith
- Article Four Whether the Object of Faith can be Something Seen
- Article Five Whether the Things of Faith can be Known Scientifically
- Article Six Whether Matters of Faith ought to be Divided into Certain Articles
- Article Seven Whether the Articles of Faith have Increased with the Passing of Time
- Article Eight Whether the Articles of Faith are appropriately Enumerated
- Article Nine Whether the Articles of Faith are appropriately Set Forth in a Symbol
- Article Ten Whether it is for the Chief Pontiff to Draw Up the Symbol of the Faith
- Question Two THE ACT OF FAITH
- Article One Whether to Believe is to Think with Assent
- Article Two Whether to Believe God, to Believe that there is a God, and to Believe in God are rightly Distinguished as Acts of Faith
- Article Three Whether, for Salvation, it is Necessary to Believe Anything which is Beyond Natural Reason
- Article Four Whether it is Necessary to Believe such Things as can be Proved by Natural Reason
- Article Five Whether a Man is required to Believe Anything Explicitly
- Article Six Whether all Men Equally are required to have Explicit Faith
- Article Seven Whether Explicit Belief in the Mystery of the Incarnation of Christ is Necessary for the Salvation of Everybody
- Article Eight Whether Explicit Belief in the Trinity is Necessary for Salvation
- Article Nine Whether to Believe is Meritorious
- Article Ten Whether a Reason in Support of the Things of Faith Diminishes the Merit of Faith
- Question Three THE OUTWARD ACT OF FAITH
- Article One Whether Confession is an Act of Faith
- Article Two Whether Confession of Faith is Necessary for Salvation
- Question Four THE VIRTUE ITSELF OF FAITH
- Article One Whether this is a Satisfactory Definition of Faith: Faith is the Substance of Things Hoped for, the Evidence of Things not Seen
- Article Two Whether Faith is in the Intellect as its Subject
- Article Three Whether Charity is the Form of Faith
- Article Four Whether Unformed Faith can become Formed, or Vice Versa
- Article Five Whether Faith is a Virtue
- Article Six Whether Faith is a Single Virtue
- Article Seven Whether Faith is the First of the Virtues
- Article Eight Whether Faith is more Certain than Science and the Other Intellectual Virtues
- Question Five OF THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH
- Article One Whether Angels and Man had Faith in their First State
- Article Two Whether Devils Have Faith
- Article Three Whether One Who Disbelieves One Article of Faith can Have Unformed Faith in the Other Articles
- Article Four Whether Faith can be Greater in One Than in Another
- Question Six THE CAUSE OF FAITH
- Article One Whether Faith is Infused into Man by God
- Article Two Whether Unformed Faith is a Gift of God
- Question Seven THE EFFECT OF FAITH
- Article One Whether Fear is an Effect of Faith
- Article Two Whether Purification of the Heart is an Effect of Faith
- cII. On Hope. Secunda Secundae, Questions 17--21. Question Seventeen OF HOPE, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF
- Article One Whether Hope is a Virtue
- Article Two Whether Eternal Blessedness is the Proper Object of Hope
- Article Three Whether One can Hope for the Eternal Blessedness of Another
- Article Four Whether One may Lawfully Hope in Man
- Article Five Whether Hope is a Theological Virtue
- Article Six Whether Hope is Distinct from the other Theological Virtues
- Article Seven Whether Hope precedes Faith
- Article Eight Whether Charity is Prior to Hope
- Question Eighteen THE SUBJECT OF HOPE
- Article One Whether Hope is in the Will as its Subject
- Article Two Whether there is Hope in the Blessed
- Article Three Whether there is Hope in the Damned
- Question Nineteen THE GIFT OF FEAR
- Article One Whether God can be Feared
- Article Two Whether Fear is appropriately Divided into Filial, Initial, Servile, and Worldly Fear
- Article Three Whether Worldly Fear is always Evil
- Article Four Whether Servile Fear is Good
- Article Five Whether Servile Fear is substantially the Same as Filial Fear
- Article Six Whether Servile Fear Remains when Charity is Present
- Article Seven Whether Fear is the Beginning of Wisdom
- Article Eight Whether Initial Fear Differs Substantially from Filial Fear
- Article Nine Whether Fear is a Gift of the Holy Spirit
- Article Ten Whether Fear Diminishes as Charity Increases
- Article Eleven Whether Fear Remains in Heaven
- Article Twelve Whether Poverty of Spirit is the Beatitude which Corresponds to the Gift of Fear
- Question Twenty OF DESPAIR
- Article One Whether Despair is a Sin
- Article Two Whether there can be Despair without Unbelief
- Article Three Whether Despair is the Greatest of Sins
- Article Four Whether Despair Arises from Listlessness
- Question Twenty-One OF PRESUMPTION
- Article One Whether Presumption Relies on God, or on One's Own Power
- Article Two Whether Presumption is a Sin
- Article Three Whether Presumption is Opposed to Fear rather than to Hope
- Article Four Whether Presumption is Caused by Vainglory
- III. On Charity. Secunda Secundae. Questions 23, 27. Question Twenty-Three OF CHARITY, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF
- Article One Whether Charity is Friendship
- Article Two Whether Charity is Something Created in the Soul
- Article Three Whether Charity is a Virtue
- Article Four Whether Charity is a Specific Virtue
- Article Five Whether Charity is a Single Virtue
- Article Six Whether Charity is the Most Excellent of the Virtues
- Article Seven Whether there can be any True Virtue without Charity
- Article Eight Whether Charity is the Form of the Virtues
- Question Twenty-Seven OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT OF CHARITY, WHICH IS TO LOVE
- Article One Whether to be Loved is More Proper to Charity than to Love
- Article Two Whether the Love which is an Act of Charity is the Same as Benevolence
- Article Three Whether by Charity God is to be Loved on Account of Himself
- Article Four Whether God can be Loved Immediately in this Life
- Article Five Whether God can be Loved Wholly
- Article Six Whether Love to God ought to have a Mode
- Article Seven Whether it is more Meritorious to Love an Enemy than to Love a Friend
- Article Eight Whether it is more Meritorious to Love One's Neighbour than to Love God
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index of References to Other Authors and Sources
- This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College, http://www.ccel.org, generated on demand from ThML source.