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: Nature And Grace
Nature And Grace
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Aquinas
Title Page
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.
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