Nature And Grace

By Thomas Aquinas

III. On Charity. Secunda Secundae. Questions 23, 27. Question Twenty-Three OF CHARITY, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF

OF CHARITY, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF

THERE ARE EIGHT QUESTIONS CONCERNING CHARITY itself.1. Whether charity is friendship.2. Whether it is something created in the soul.3. Whether it is a virtue.4. Whether it is a particular kind of virtue.5. Whether it is a single virtue.6. Whether it is the greatest of the virtues.

7. Whether there can be any true virtue without charity.

8. Whether charity is the form of the virtues.