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OF THE CONDITION OF THE OFFSPRING AS REGARDS KNOWLEDGE (TWO ARTICLES)

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We next consider the condition of the offspring as to knowledge. Under this head there are two points of inquiry:

(1) Whether in the state of innocence children would have been born with perfect knowledge?

(2) Whether they would have had perfect use of reason at the moment of birth?

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Aquinas's monumental systematic theology examining whether sacred doctrine is a science, God's existence and nature, divine attributes, moral philosophy, and the full range of Christian doctrine through rigorous philosophical and theological reasoning.

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