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CONTENTS BEATITUDE

CHAPTER I THE NATURE OF MORAL THEOLOGY CHAPTER II DIVISIONS OF MORAL THEOLOGY CHAPTER III ETHICAL SYSTEMS

REFLECTIONS ON THESE SYSTEMS

CHAPTER IV THE FOUR CHIEF SYSTEMS

FIRST PART THE ULTIMATE GOAL (I—II, q. 1-5)

CHAPTER V THE ULTIMATE GOAL IN GENERAL

QUESTION 1 ART. 1. DOES MAN ACT PURPOSELY?

PRELIMINARIES THREE THOMISTIC COROLLARIES THREE DOUBTS AN ADDITION A CONFIRMATION SOLUTION OF DIFFICULTIES GOAL AND PURPOSE

ART. 2. UNIVERSALITY OF PURPOSE

PRELIMINARIES THE ARGUMENT A RECAPITULATION GOD AND FINALITY

ART. 3. DIFFERENTIATION BY PURPOSE

PRELIMINARIES THE PROOF DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED A COROLLARY TWO DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED SUMMARY

ART. 4. DOES HUMAN LIFE HAVE AN ULTIMATE PURPOSE?

PRELIMINARIES TWO CONCLUSIONS

ART. 5. CAN ONE MAN HAVE MANY ULTIMATE PURPOSES?

INITIAL DIFFICULTIES THE DEMONSTRATION CLARIFICATIONS A CONFIRMATION INITIAL DIFFICULTIES ANSWERED THREE FURTHER DIFFICULTIES

ART. 6. DOES MAN WILL HIS EVERY ACT FOR A LAST END?

INITIAL DIFFICULTIES THE ARGUMENT DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED DIFFICULTIES RAISED BY SCOTUS FURTHER DIFFICULTIES VENIAL SIN ST. THOMAS ON VENIAL SIN

APPENDIX

VIRTUAL INTENTION THE ARGUMENT A COROLLARY INITIAL DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 8. DO ALL CREATURES HAVE THE SAME ULTIMATE GOAL?

RECAPITULATION

CHAPTER VI MAN’S OBJECTIVE BEATITUDE

PROLOGUE THE PRESENT QUESTION DIVISION OF GOODNESS ART. 1, 2, 3, 4. CAN EXTERNAL GOODS BE MAN’S BEATIFYING OBJECT? ART. 5. BODILY EXCELLENCE IS NOT THE BEATIFYING OBJECT

DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 6. PLEASURE IS NOT THE BEATIFYING OBJECT

INITIAL DIFFICULTIES THE RESPONSE DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 7. IS VIRTUE THE BEATIFYING OBJECT?

PRELIMINARIES VIRTUE, SOUL-GOOD, CANNOT BE THE BEATIFYING OBJECT A COROLLARY DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 8. NOTHING CREATED CAN BE THE BEATIFYING OBJECT

INITIAL DIFFICULTIES PROOF OF THE THESIS DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED COROLLARIES

APPENDIX

PLATO AND ARISTOTLE ON THE SUPREME GOOD

DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AS PROOF OF GOD’S EXISTENCE

PRELIMINARIES CLARIFICATIONS

CHAPTER VII WHAT IS BEATITUDE CONSIDERED FORMALLY, SUBJECTIVELY? (Q.3)

PRELIMINARIES ART. 1 ART. 2

THE AFFIRMATIVE PROOF OBJECTIONS ANALYZED HENRY OF GHENT AND THE MAGISTER BONAE SPEI

ART. 3. IS IT SENSE-ACTIVITY? ART. 4. BY WHAT FACULTY IS THIS ACTIVITY EXERCISED: BY THE INTELLECT OR BY THE WILL?

PRELIMINARIES INITIAL DIFFICULTIES THE AFFIRMATIVE ARGUMENT DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED INITIAL DIFFICULTIES DIFFICULTIES PROPOSED BY SCOTUS DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED CONCLUSION

ART. 5. IS BEATITUDE AN ACTIVITY OF THE CONTEMPLATIVE INTELLECT? ART. 6. CAN METAPHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE BE CALLED BEATITUDE?

A DIFFICULTY ANALYZED

ART. 7. BEATITUDE DOES NOT CONSIST IN KNOWING THE ANGELS ART. 8. FORMAL BEATITUDE CONSISTS IN THE VISION OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE

PROPOSITIONS CONDEMNED ILLUSTRATIVE TEXTS ANSWER TO THIS DIFFICULTY SYNOPSIS OF OPINIONS OPINIONS EXAMINED FURTHER REFLECTIONS TWO COROLLARIES COROLLARIES

CHAPTER VIII THE CHARACTERISTICS OF BEATITUDE (Q. 4)

ART. 1. IS DELIGHT A NECESSARY CONSEQUENCE OF BEATITUDE? ART. 2. THE CHIEF ELEMENT IN BEATITUDE

OBJECTIONS ANALYZED

ART. 3. DOES BEATITUDE INCLUDE COMPREHENSION? ART. 4. RECTITUDE OF WILL IS INCLUDED IN BEATITUDE, BOTH ANTECEDENTLY AND CONSEQUENTLY

TWO COROLLARIES FIRST SERIES SECOND SERIES

ART. 5. THE BODY, WHILE IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL FOR PERFECT BEATITUDE, STILL SERVES TO INCREASE BEATITUDE

DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 6. IS BODILY PERFECTION NECESSARY FOR BEATITUDE? ART. 7. ARE EXTERIOR GOODS NECESSARY FOR BEATITUDE? ART. 8. IS THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS NECESSARY FOR BEATITUDE?

CHAPTER IX ON ATTAINING BEATITUDE (Q. 5)

ART. 1. CAN MAN ATTAIN BEATITUDE? ART. 2. CAN ONE MAN BE MORE BLESSED THAN ANOTHER? ART. 3. CAN ANYONE IN THIS LIFE BE BLESSED? ART. 4. CAN PERFECT BEATITUDE BE LOST?

SCOTIST OBJECTIONS ANALYZED

ART. 5. CAN A CREATURE BY HIS NATURAL POWERS ATTAIN BEATITUDE? ART. 6. CAN MAN ATTAIN BEATITUDE BY THE ACTION OF SOME HIGHER CREATURE? ART. 7. ARE GOOD WORKS PREREQUIRED FOR BEATITUDE? ART. 8. DOES EVERY MAN DESIRE BEATITUDE?

SUMMARY SUPPLEMENT ON NATURAL BEATITUDE

SECOND PART HUMAN ACTS

CHAPTER X VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY (Q. 6)

ART. 1. ARE HUMAN ACTS VOLUNTARY?

PRELIMINARIES THE AFFIRMATIVE ARGUMENT

ART. 2. ARE THE ACTS OF ANIMALS VOLUNTARY?

DEFINITION OF VOLUNTARINESS

ART. 3. CAN THERE BE VOLUNTARINESS WHERE THERE IS NO ACT?

A DOUBT OBJECTIONS DIVISIONS OF VOLUNTARINESS THIRD PRINCIPLE THE INVOLUNTARY AND ITS CAUSES

ART. 4. CAN THE WILL SUFFER VIOLENCE?

OUR THESIS OBJECTIONS

ART. 5. CAN VIOLENCE CAUSE INVOLUNTARINESS?

PRELIMINARIES COROLLARIES

ART. 6. DOES FEAR CAUSE THE INVOLUNTARY?

PRELIMINARIES DIFFICULTIES OUR THESIS DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED SPECIAL DIFFICULTIES

ART. 7. DOES CONCUPISCENCE MAKE THE ACT INVOLUNTARY?

PRELIMINARIES A TWOFOLD CONCLUSION

AN APPENDIX

CONCLUSIONS HEREDITY AND TEMPERAMENT HEREDITY TEMPERAMENT CHARACTER EDUCATION PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS

ART. 8. DOES IGNORANCE MAKE THE ACT INVOLUNTARY?

PRELIMINARIES DIVISIONS OF IGNORANCE PRINCIPLES REGARDING IGNORANCE SECOND PRINCIPLE A FINAL CONCLUSION

CHAPTER XI THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HUMAN ACTS (Q. 7)

PRELIMINARIES ART. 1. WHETHER CIRCUMSTANCE CAN BE AN ACCIDENT OF HUMAN ACTS? ART. 2. THEOLOGICAL CIRCUMSTANCES ART. 3. CIRCUMSTANCES FORMULATED: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, BY WHOSE AID, WHY, HOW AND WHEN ART. 4. WHAT ARE THE CHIEF CIRCUMSTANCES?

HUMAN ACTS CONSIDERED PSYCHOLOGICALLY TWELVE SUCCESSIVE ACTS ORDER OF INTENTION ORDER OF CHOICE ORDER OF EXECUTION

CHAPTER XII THE WILL AND ITS OBJECT (Q. 8)

ART. 1. CAN THE WILL DESIRE EVIL?

PRELIMINARIES DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED THE FOLLOWING DIFFICULTIES ARE URGED COROLLARY

ART. 2. IS THE WILL CONCERNED WITH PURPOSE ONLY?

PRELIMINARIES

ART. 3. IS THE WILL MOVED BY ONE AND THE SAME ACT TOWARD PURPOSE AND MEANS?

PRELIMINARIES A CONFIRMATION

CHAPTER XIII BY WHAT MOTIVES THE WILL IS MOVED (Q. 9)

PRELIMINARIES ART. 1. IS THE WILL MOVED BY THE INTELLECT?

PRELIMINARIES OBJECTIONS ANALYZED THREE DOUBTS

ART. 2. IS THE WILL MOVED BY SENSE-APPETITE?

PRELIMINARIES TWO AFFIRMATIVE CONCLUSIONS OBJECTIONS ANALYZED

ART. 3. DOES THE WILL MOVE ITSELF?

PRELIMINARIES THESIS DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 4. IS THE WILL MOVED BY ANY EXTERIOR PRINCIPLE?

PRELIMINARIES DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED TWO DOUBTS

ART. 5. IS THE WILL MOVED BY THE CORPOREAL WORLD?

PRELIMINARIES COROLLARY DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 6. IS GOD THE ONLY EXTERIOR PRINCIPLE

PRELIMINARIES THESIS COROLLARY DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED THE THIRD RESPONSE

CHAPTER XIV HOW IS THE WILL MOVED? (Q. 10)

PRELIMINARIES ART. 1. IS THE WILL MOVED TO ANY ACT NATURALLY, I.E., NOT FREELY?

COROLLARY

ART. 2. IS THE WILL MOVED NECESSARILY BY ITS OBJECT?

ERRORS REGARDING THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL DIVISIONS OF INDETERMINISM PRELIMINARIES OUR AUTHORITIES THE ARGUMENT FIRST COROLLARY SECOND COROLLARY FOUR DOUBTS THE ROOTS OF FREEDOM DEFINITIONS OF LIBERTY THE MOLINISTIC DEFINITION TWO DOUBTS DOMINATING INDIFFERENCE IS EQUILIBRIUM NECESSARY FOR FREEDOM? ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINISM ANALYSIS OF DIFFICULTIES EIGHT REPLIES TWO DOUBTS ANSWERING LEIBNITZ A FINAL DOUBT

ART. 3. IS THE WILL MOVED NECESSARILY BY THE SENSE-APPETITE?

PRELIMINARIES DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 4. MUST THE WILL BE MOVED BY GOD TO ITS ACT?

PRELIMINARIES OBJECTIONS THESIS A MANIFOLD REPLY AGAINST LESSIUS THE THESIS PASSAGES FROM ST. THOMAS TWO FURTHER FUNDAMENTAL ARGUMENTS DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED FURTHER OBJECTIONS ANALYZED THE NATURE OF PREMOTION A MIDDLE INTERPRETATION PRELIMINARIES A SUMMARY CONCLUSION

CHAPTER XV OTHER ACTS ELICITED BY THE WILL (Q. 11-17)

FRUITION (Q. 11) INTENTION (Q. 12) ART. 4, 5. IS THE INTENTION OF THE END IDENTICAL WITH THE ACT OF THE WILL TOWARD THAT END? THE ACT OF CHOICE (Q. 13) THE ACT OF COUNSEL (Q. 14) THE ACT OF CONSENT (Q. 15) THE ACT OF USING (Q. 16) ACTS COMMANDED BY THE WILL (Q. 17)

THREE CONCLUSIONS SIX OBJECTIONS

THIRD PART MORALITY OF HUMAN ACTS

CHAPTER XVI SOURCES OF GOOD AND EVIL (Q. 18)

PRELIMINARIES ERRORS REGARDING MORALITY

REASON PRUDENCE THE MORAL ACT

ART. 1. HUMAN ACTS, INTRINSICALLY GOOD OR INTRINSICALLY BAD?

PRELIMINARIES THESIS: SOME ACTIONS ARE MORALLY GOOD, SOME ARE EVIL DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED THE ESSENCE OF MORALITY THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF MORALITY

THE SOURCES OF MORALITY (Q. 18) ART. 1. WHETHER HUMAN ACTS ARE GOOD OR SOME OF THEM BAD

PRELIMINARIES

ART. 2. MAN’S ACTION DERIVES ITS FIRST AND ESSENTIAL GOODNESS OR BADNESS FROM ITS NATURAL OBJECT

PRELIMINARIES OBJECTIONS ANALYZED

ART. 3. CIRCUMSTANTIAL GOODNESS OR BADNESS

PRELIMINARIES THESIS: THE HUMAN ACT DERIVES SOME GOODNESS OR EVIL FROM CIRCUMSTANCES

ART. 4. PURPOSE AS CIRCUMSTANCE

THESIS. THE HUMAN ACT DERIVES GOODNESS OR EVIL FROM THE AGENT’S SUBJECTIVE PURPOSE

ART. 5. GOOD AND EVIL DIFFERENTIATE HUMAN ACTS SPECIFICALLY

PRELIMINARIES THESIS. GOOD AND EVIL DIVERSIFY MORAL ACTS SPECIFICALLY DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 6. THE INTENTION IS DIFFERENTIATED BY PERSONAL PURPOSE

PRELIMINARIES OBJECTIONS

ART. 7. DIFFERENTIATION BY OBJECT IS SOMETIMES SUBORDINATED TO DIFFERENTIATION BY PURPOSE

COROLLARIES TWO DOUBTS

ART. 8. SOME ACTS ARE SPECIFICALLY INDIFFERENT

PRELIMINARIES OBJECTIONS ANALYZED

ART. 9. NO HUMAN ACT IS INDIVIDUALLY INDIFFERENT

PRELIMINARIES COROLLARIES ANALYSIS OF OBJECTIONS

ART. 10. SOME CIRCUMSTANCES DIFFERENTIATE ACTS SPECIFICALLY

OBJECTIONS ANALYZED

CHAPTER XVII GOOD AND EVIL IN INTERIOR ACTS (Q. 19)

ART. 1. THE GOODNESS OF THE WILL DEPENDS ON ITS OBJECT

PRELIMINARIES

ART. 2. GOODNESS OF INTENTION DEPENDS ON THE OBJECT AIMED AT BY PERSONAL PURPOSE ART. 3. THE GOODNESS OF THE WILL DEPENDS ON REASON, THAT IS, ON THE OBJECT PROPOSED BY REASON

PRELIMINARIES DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 4. THE WILL’S GOODNESS DEPENDS ON THE ETERNAL LAW AS ITS SUPREME STANDARD

PRELIMINARIES INDEPENDENT ETHICS A RELATED QUESTION PRELIMINARIES OBJECTIONS ANALYZED

ART. 5. ANY ACT OF THE WILL AGAINST REASON, RIGHT OR WRONG IS ALWAYS EVIL

PRELIMINARIES

ART. 6. CONSCIENCE VOLUNTARILY ERRONEOUS DOES NOT EXCUSE FROM SIN ART. 7, 8. GOODNESS IN CHOOSING WAYS AND MEANS DEPENDS ON THE GOODNESS OF INTENTION ART. 9. GOODNESS OF WILL DEPENDS ON CONFORMITY WITH GOD’S WILL ART. 10. THIS CONFORMITY MUST BE FOUND IN WHAT IS GOOD BY ITS VERY NATURE

PRELIMINARIES OBJECTIONS ANALYZED

CHAPTER XVIII GOOD AND EVIL IN EXTERIOR ACTS (Q.20)

ART. 1. FIRST CONCLUSION. GOOD AND EVIL ARE FIRST FOUND IN THE INTERIOR ACT ART. 2. EXTERIOR GOOD AND EVIL IN RELATION TO THE WILL ART. 3. INTERRELATIONS OF EXTERIOR ACT TO INTERIOR ACT ART. 4. DOES THE EXTERIOR ACT INCREASE THE GOODNESS OR EVIL OF THE INTERIOR ACT? ART. 5. DO RESULTS AFFECT EXTERIOR GOODNESS AND EVIL? ART. 6. CONCLUSION

FOURTH PART CONSCIENCE

CHAPTER XIX DEFINITION AND DIVISION

DIVISIONS OF CONSCIENCE

A. TRUE AND RIGHT CONSCIENCE B. ERRONEOUS CONSCIENCE

SUBJECTIVE DIVISIONS TRUE AND RIGHT CONSCIENCE PRINCIPLES OF CONSCIENCE IS MAN BOUND TO OBEY AN ERRONEOUS CONSCIENCE?

OBJECTIONS ANALYZED

THE WILL IN HARMONY WITH ERRONEOUS REASON IS GOOD CONSCIENCE ON THE PART OF THE SUBJECT

ON CERTAIN CONSCIENCE

CHAPTER XX DUBIOUS CONSCIENCE

DIVISIONS OF DOUBT HOW TO SOLVE PRACTICAL DOUBTS THE CHIEF REFLEX PRINCIPLES

CHAPTER XXI PROBABLE CONSCIENCE

PRELIMINARIES THE USE OF PROBABILITY A THOMISTIC FORMULATION

FIFTH PART THE PASSIONS

CHAPTER XXII THE PASSIONS IN GENERAL (Q. 22-25)

DIVISION OF PASSIONS ART. 3. DOES PASSION INCREASE OR DIMINISH THE GOODNESS OR THE EVIL OF AN ACT? (Q. 24)

CHAPTER XXIII THE PASSIONS IN PARTICULAR (Q. 26-49)

LOVE (Q. 26-28)

SIXTH PART HABITS

CHAPTER XXIV HABITS IN THEIR ESSENCE (Q. 49)

PROLOGUE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS TREATISE HABITS IN GENERAL (Q. 49) ART. 1. IS HABIT A QUALITY? ART. 2. IS HABIT A DEFINITE SPECIES OF QUALITY? ART. 3. DOES HABIT INCLUDE NECESSARILY RELATIONSHIP TO ACT? ART. 4. ARE HABITS NECESSARY?

CHAPTER XXV HABITS AND THEIR SUBJECTS (Q. 50)

ART. 1. HABITS IN THE BODY ART. 2. CAN THE ESSENCE OF THE SOUL BE THE SUBJECT OF HABITS? ART. 3. CAN THE SENSE-POWERS BE SUBJECTS OF HABIT? ART. 4. INTELLECTUAL HABITS ART. 5. ARE THERE HABITS IN THE WILL? ART. 6. DO THE ANGELS NEED HABITS?

CHAPTER XXVI THE SOURCE OF HABITS (Q. 51)

ART. 1. DO HABITS COME FROM NATURE? ART. 2. DO HABITS ARISE FROM ACTS?

PEDAGOGICAL COROLLARIES

ART. 3. CAN HABIT BE PRODUCED BY ONE ACT?

TWO COROLLARIES COROLLARY

ART. 4. ARE SOME HABITS INFUSED BY GOD?

FIRST COROLLARY SECOND COROLLARY

CHAPTER XXVII THE GROWTH OF HABITS (Q. 52)

ART. 1. DO HABITS GROW?

RECAPITULATION

ART. 2. ARE HABITS AUGMENTED BY ADDITION?

PRELIMINARIES

ART. 3. DOES EACH AND EVERY ACT INCREASE THE HABIT?

PRELIMINARIES ST. THOMAS AND SUAREZ OBJECTIONS ANALYZED

CHAPTER XXVIII CORRUPTION AND DIMINUTION OF HABITS (Q. 53)

PRELIMINARIES ART. 1. CAN HABITS BE CORRUPTED?

PRELIMINARIES

ART. 2. CAN HABIT BE DIMINISHED? ART. 3. IS HABIT CORRUPTED OR DIMINISHED BY MERE CESSATION FROM ACT?

CHAPTER XXIX HABITS, HOW DISTINGUISHED (Q. 54)

ART. 1. CAN MANY HABITS EXIST IN ONE SUBJECT?

DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 2. ARE HABITS DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR OBJECTS?

PRELIMINARIES DIFFICULTIES ANALYZED

ART. 3. ARE HABITS DISTINGUISHED AS GOOD AND EVIL? ART. 4. CAN ONE HABIT BE COMPOSED OF MANY HABITS?

PRELIMINARIES

CHRIST THE SAVIOR

CONTENTS CHRIST THE SAVIOR

Preface THE THIRD PART OF ST THOMAS’ THEOLOGICAL SUMMA

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER I: THE MYSTERY AND FACT OF THE INCARNATION

FIRST ARTICLE: CHRIST’S TESTIMONY OF HIMSELF AND PRIMARILY OF HIS MESSIANIC DIGNITY. STATE OF THE QUESTION. SECOND ARTICLE: TESTIMONY OF CHRIST AND THE APOSTLES CONCERNING THE DIVINE SONSHIP TESTIMONY OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CONCERNING THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST TESTIMONY OF ST. PAUL ON THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST ST. JOHN’S TESTIMONY TO THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST THIRD ARTICLE: TESTIMONY OF TRADITION AND THE PRINCIPAL DEFINITIONS OF THE CHURCH

CHAPTER II: PRELIMINARY QUESTION THE POSSIBILITY OF THE INCARNATION CHAPTER III: QUESTION 1—THE FITNESS OF THE INCARNATION

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IT WAS FITTING THAT GOD SHOULD BECOME INCARNATE? SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER IT WAS NECESSARY FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE HUMAN RACE THAT THE WORD OF GOD SHOULD BECOME INCARNATE? THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER, IF MAN HAD NOT SINNED, GOD WOULD HAVE BECOME INCARNATE? FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD BECAME INCARNATE IN ORDER TO TAKE AWAY ACTUAL SIN, RATHER THAN TO TAKE AWAY ORIGINAL SIN? FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER IT WAS FITTING THAT GOD SHOULD BECOME INCARNATE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE HUMAN RACE? SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE INCARNATION OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN PUT OFF TILL THE END OF THE WORLD?

CHAPTER IV: QUESTION 2

PROLOGUE: THE MODE OF THE UNION OF THE WORD INCARNATE FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE UNION OF THE INCARNATE WORD TOOK PLACE IN THE NATURE SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE UNION OF THE INCARNATE WORD TOOK PLACE IN THE PERSON THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE UNION OF THE WORD INCARNATE TOOK PLACE IN THE SUPPOSITUM OR HYPOSTASIS FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER AFTER THE INCARNATION THE PERSON OR HYPOSTASIS IS COMPOSITE FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER IN CHRIST THERE IS ANY UNION OF SOUL AND BODY SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE HUMAN NATURE WAS UNITED TO THE WORD OF GOD ACCIDENTALLY SEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE UNION OF THE DIVINE NATURE AND THE HUMAN IS SOMETHING CREATED EIGHTH ARTICLE: WHETHER UNION IS THE SAME AS ASSUMPTION NINTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE UNION OF THE TWO NATURES IN CHRIST IS THE GREATEST OF UNIONS TENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE UNION OF THE TWO NATURES IN CHRIST TOOK PLACE BY GRACE ELEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ANY MERITS PRECEDED THE UNION OF THE INCARNATION TWELFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE GRACE OF UNION WAS NATURAL TO THE MAN CHRIST

CHAPTER V: QUESTION 3: THE MODE OF THE UNION ON THE PART OF THE PERSON ASSUMING

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS FITTING FOR A DIVINE PERSON TO ASSUME SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS BEFITTING TO THE DIVINE NATURE TO ASSUME THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE NATURE ABSTRACTED FROM THE PERSONALITY CAN ASSUME FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ONE PERSON WITHOUT ANOTHER CAN ASSUME A CREATED NATURE FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER EACH OF THE DIVINE PERSONS COULD HAVE ASSUMED HUMAN NATURE SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER SEVERAL DIVINE PERSONS CAN ASSUME ONE AND THE SAME INDIVIDUAL NATURE SEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ONE DIVINE PERSON CAN ASSUME TWO HUMAN NATURES

CHAPTER VI: QUESTION 4: THE MODE OF THE UNION ON THE PART OF THE HUMAN NATURE ASSUMED

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER HUMAN NATURE WAS MORE ASSUMABLE BY THE SON OF GOD THAN ANY OTHER NATURE SECOND OBJECTION. THE DIFFICULTY IS THAT ALSO IN IRRATIONAL CREATURES THERE IS A TRACE OF GOD’S IMAGE. FOURTH OBJECTION. FINALLY THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS MORE CAPABLE OF ASSUMPTION THAN THE HUMAN NATURE. SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON OF GOD ASSUMED A PERSON THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE DIVINE PERSON ASSUMED A MAN FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON OF GOD OUGHT TO HAVE ASSUMED HUMAN NATURE ABSTRACTED FROM ALL INDIVIDUALS FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON OF GOD OUGHT TO HAVE ASSUMED HUMAN NATURE IN ALL INDIVIDUALS SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER IT WAS FITTING FOR THE SON OF GOD TO ASSUME HUMAN NATURE OF THE STOCK OF ADAM SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS

CHAPTER VII: QUESTION 5: THE MODE OF THE UNION CONCERNING THE PARTS OF THE HUMAN NATURE ASSUMED

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON OF GOD OUGHT TO HAVE ASSUMED A HUMAN BODY SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON OF GOD OUGHT TO HAVE ASSUMED AN EARTHLY BODY THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON OF GOD ASSUMED A SOUL FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON OF GOD ASSUMED A HUMAN MIND OR INTELLECT

CHAPTER VIII: QUESTION 6: THE ORDER OF ASSUMPTION

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON OF GOD ASSUMED FLESH THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF THE SOUL SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON OF GOD ASSUMED A SOUL THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF THE SPIRIT OR MIND THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SOUL WAS ASSUMED BEFORE THE FLESH BY THE SON OF GOD FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE FLESH OF CHRIST WAS ASSUMED BY THE WORD BEFORE BEING UNITED WITH THE SOUL FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE WHOLE HUMAN NATURE WAS ASSUMED THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF THE PARTS SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE HUMAN NATURE WAS ASSUMED THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF GRACE

CHAPTER IX: QUESTION 7: THE THINGS CO-ASSUMED THE GRACE OF CHRIST

CHAPTER X: QUESTION 8: CHRIST’S GRACE AS HEAD OF THE CHURCH

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST IS HEAD OF MEN AS TO THEIR BODIES OR ONLY AS TO THEIR SOULS THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF ALL MEN FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE ANGELS FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE GRACE OF CHRIST AS HEAD OF CHURCH IS THE SAME AS HIS HABITUAL GRACE, INASMUCH AS HE IS MAN SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS PROPER TO CHRIST TO BE THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH SEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE DEVIL IS THE HEAD OF ALL THE WICKED EIGHTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ANTICHRIST MAY BE CALLED THE HEAD OF ALL THE WICKED

CHAPTER XI: QUESTION 9: CHRIST’S KNOWLEDGE IN GENERAL AND HIS POWER OF CONTEMPLATION

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST HAD ANY KNOWLEDGE BESIDES THE DIVINE SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST HAD KNOWLEDGE WHICH THE BLESSED OR COMPREHENSORS HAVE THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST HAD IMPRINTED OR INFUSED KNOWLEDGE FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST HAD ANY ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE

CHAPTER XII: QUESTION 10: THE BEATIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST’S SOUL

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SOUL OF CHRIST COMPREHENDED THE WORD SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S SOUL KNEW ALL THINGS IN THE WORD THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SOUL OF CHRIST CAN KNOW THE INFINITE IN THE WORD

CHAPTER XIII: QUESTION II

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER BY THIS KNOWLEDGE CHRIST KNOWS ALL THINGS SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST COULD USE THIS KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT TURNING TO PHANTASMS THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THIS KNOWLEDGE WAS COLLATIVE OR DISCURSIVE FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER IN CHRIST THIS INFUSED KNOWLEDGE WAS GREATER THAN THAT OF THE ANGELS FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S INFUSED KNOWLEDGE WAS HABITUAL OR ACTUAL; THAT IS, WHETHER IT WAS ALWAYS IN ACT SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THIS INFUSED KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST WAS DISTINGUISHED BY DIVERSE HABITS

CHAPTER XIV: QUESTION 12: THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST’S SOUL

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST KNEW ALL THINGS BY THIS KNOWLEDGE SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST ADVANCED IN THIS KNOWLEDGE THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST LEARNED ANYTHING FROM MAN FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST RECEIVED KNOWLEDGE FROM THE ANGELS

CHAPTER XV: QUESTION 13: THE POWER OF CHRIST’S SOUL

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SOUL OF CHRIST HAD OMNIPOTENCE IN THE ABSOLUTE SENSE SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S SOUL HAD OMNIPOTENCE WITH REGARD TO THE TRANSMUTATION OF CREATURES THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S SOUL HAD OMNIPOTENCE WITH REGARD TO HIS OWN BODY FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S SOUL HAD OMNIPOTENCE AS REGARDS THE EXECUTION OF HIS WILL

CHAPTER XVI: QUESTION 14: THE BODILY DEFECTS ASSUMED BY THE SON OF GOD

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON OF GOD IN HUMAN NATURE OUGHT TO HAVE ASSUMED DEFECTS OF BODY SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST WAS OF NECESSITY SUBJECT TO THESE DEFECTS THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST CONTRACTED THESE BODILY DEFECTS FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST OUGHT TO HAVE ASSUMED ALL THE BODILY DEFECTS OF MEN

CHAPTER XVII: QUESTION 15: THE DEFECTS OF SOUL ASSUMED BY CHRIST

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE WAS SIN IN CHRIST SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE WAS THE FOMES OF SIN IN CHRIST THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER IN CHRIST THERE WAS IGNORANCE FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S SOUL WAS PASSIBLE FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE WAS SENSIBLE PAIN IN CHRIST SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE WAS SORROW IN CHRIST SEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE WAS FEAR IN CHRIST EIGHTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE WAS WONDER IN CHRIST NINTH ARTICLE WHETHER THERE WAS ANGER IN CHRIST TENTH ARTICLE WHETHER CHRIST WAS AT THE SAME TIME WAYFARER AND COMPREHENSOR

CHAPTER XVIII: QUESTION 16 THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE HYPOSTATIC UNION

CHAPTER XIX: QUESTION 17: WHAT PERTAINS COMMONLY TO CHRIST’S UNITY OF BEING

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST IS ONE OR TWO SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE IS ONLY ONE BEING IN CHRIST

CHAPTER XX: QUESTION 18: WHAT PERTAINS TO THE UNITY OF CHRIST AS REGARDS HIS WILL

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE ARE TWO WILLS IN CHRIST SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER IN CHRIST THERE WAS A WILL OF SENSUALITY BESIDES THE WILL OF REASON THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER IN CHRIST THERE WERE TWO WILLS AS REGARDS THE REASON FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE WAS FREE WILL IN CHRIST FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE WILL OF CHRIST WAS ALTOGETHER CONFORMED TO THE DIVINE WILL IN THE THINGS WILLED SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE WAS CONTRARIETY OF WILLS IN CHRIST

CHAPTER XXI: QUESTION 19: CHRIST’S OPERATION AND HIS MERITS

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IN CHRIST THERE IS ONLY ONE OPERATION OF THE GODHEAD AND MANHOOD SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER IN CHRIST THERE ARE SEVERAL HUMAN OPERATIONS THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE HUMAN ACTION OF CHRIST COULD BE MERITORIOUS TO HIM FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST COULD MERIT FOR OTHERS

CHAPTER XXII: CHRIST’S RELATION TO THE FATHER : QUESTION 20: CHRIST’S SUBJECTION TO THE FATHER

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST IS SUBJECT TO THE FATHER SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER IT CAN BE SAID THAT CHRIST IS SUBJECT TO HIMSELF

CHAPTER XXIII: QUESTION 21: CHRIST’S PRAYER

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS BECOMING FOR CHRIST TO PRAY SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER IT PERTAINS TO CHRIST TO PRAY ACCORDING TO HIS SENSUALITY THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST PRAYED FOR HIMSELF FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S PRAYER WAS ALWAYS HEARD

CHAPTER XXIV: QUESTION 22: THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS FITTING THAT CHRIST SHOULD BE A PRIEST SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST WAS HIMSELF BOTH PRIEST AND VICTIM THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE EFFECT OF CHRIST’S PRIESTHOOD IS THE EXPIATION OF SINS FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE EFFECT OF THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST PERTAINED NOT ONLY TO OTHERS BUT ALSO TO HIMSELF FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST ENDURES FOREVER SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST WAS ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDECH

CHAPTER XXV: QUESTION 23: THE ADOPTION OF CHRIST

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS FITTING THAT GOD SHOULD ADOPT SONS SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS FITTING THAT THE WHOLE TRINITY SHOULD ADOPT THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS PROPER TO THE RATIONAL NATURE TO BE ADOPTED FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST AS MAN IS THE ADOPTED SON OF GOD

CHAPTER XXVI: QUESTION 24: THE PREDESTINATION OF CHRIST IMPORTANCE OF THIS QUESTION

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS BEFITTING THAT CHRIST SHOULD BE PREDESTINATED SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THIS PROPOSITION IS FALSE: CHRIST AS MAN WAS PREDESTINED TO BE THE SON OF GOD THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S PREDESTINATION IS THE EXEMPLAR OF OURS FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S PREDESTINATION IS THE CAUSE OF OURS

CHAPTER XXVII: QUESTION 25: THE ADORATION OF CHRIST

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S HUMANITY AND GODHEAD ARE TO BE ADORED WITH THE SAME ADORATION SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S HUMANITY SHOULD BE ADORED WITH THE ADORATION OF LATRIA THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE IMAGE OF CHRIST SHOULD BE ADORED WITH THE ADORATION OF LATRIA FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S CROSS SHOULD BE WORSHIPED WITH THE ADORATION OF LATRIA FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE MOTHER OF GOD SHOULD BE ADORED WITH THE ADORATION OF LATRIA

CHAPTER XXVIII: QUESTION 26: CHRIST THE MEDIATOR

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS PROPER TO CHRIST TO BE THE MEDIATOR OF GOD AND MAN SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST AS MAN IS THE MEDIATOR OF GOD AND MEN

CHAPTER XXIX: PREFATORY REMARKS CHAPTER XXX: TESTIMONY OF SACRED SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION

FIRST ARTICLE: TESTIMONY OF CHRIST AND THE APOSTLES SECOND ARTICLE: TESTIMONY OF TRADITION

CHAPTER XXXI: QUESTION 46: CHRIST’S PASSION

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IT WAS NECESSARY FOR CHRIST TO SUFFER FOR THE DELIVERANCE OF THE HUMAN RACE SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE WAS ANY OTHER POSSIBLE WAY OF HUMAN DELIVERANCE BESIDES THE PASSION OF CHRIST THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE WAS ANY MORE SUITABLE WAY OF DELIVERING THE HUMAN RACE THAN BY CHRIST’S PASSION FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST OUGHT TO HAVE SUFFERED ON THE CROSS FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST ENDURED ALL SUFFERINGS SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE PAIN OF CHRIST’S PASSION WAS GREATER THAN ALL OTHER PAINS SEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST SUFFERED IN HIS WHOLE SOUL EIGHTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S ENTIRE SOUL ENJOYED BLESSED FRUITION DURING THE PASSION

CHAPTER XXXII: QUESTION 47: THE EFFICIENT CAUSE OF CHRIST’S PASSION

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST WAS SLAIN BY ANOTHER OR BY HIMSELF SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST DIED OUT OF OBEDIENCE THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD THE FATHER DELIVERED UP CHRIST TO THE PASSION FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER IT WAS FITTING FOR CHRIST TO SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF THE GENTILES FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S PERSECUTORS KNEW WHO HE WAS SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SIN OF THOSE WHO CRUCIFIED CHRIST WAS MOST GRIEVOUS

CHAPTER XXXIII: QUESTION 48: THE EFFICIENCY OF CHRIST’S PASSION

FIRST ARTICLE: ON REDEMPTION BY WAY OF MERIT SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST’S PASSION BROUGHT ABOUT OUR SALVATION BY WAY OF ATONEMENT THIRD ARTICLE: ON REDEMPTION BY WAY OF SACRIFICE FOURTH ARTICLE: REDEMPTION BY WAY OF LIBERATION FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS PROPER TO CHRIST TO BE THE REDEEMER SIXTH ARTICLE: REDEMPTION BY WAY OF EFFICIENCY

CHAPTER XXXIV: QUESTION 49: THE EFFECTS OF CHRIST’S PASSION AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF REDEMPTION

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER WE WERE DELIVERED FROM SIN THROUGH CHRIST’S PASSION SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER WE WERE DELIVERED FROM THE DEVIL’S POWER THROUGH CHRIST’S PASSION THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER MEN WERE FREED FROM THE PUNISHMENT OF SIN THROUGH CHRIST’S PASSION FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER WE WERE RECONCILED TO GOD THROUGH CHRIST’S PASSION FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CHRIST OPENED THE GATE OF HEAVEN TO US BY HIS PASSION SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER BY HIS PASSION CHRIST MERITED TO BE EXALTED

CHAPTER XXXV: THE SUBLIME MYSTERY OF REDEMPTION INASMUCH AS IT IS A MYSTERY OF LOVE

FIRST ARTICLE: WHY CHRIST SUFFERED SO MUCH WHEN THE LEAST OF HIS ACTS OF LOVE SUPERABUNDANTLY SUFFICED FOR THE SALVATION OF ALL MEN SECOND ARTICLE: ON THE UNION IN CHRIST THE SAVIOR OF THE GREATEST SUFFERING AND THE BEATIFIC VISION CONCLUSION

CHAPTER XXXVI: CHRIST’S THREEFOLD VICTORY PRELIMINARY REMARKS

CHRIST’S VICTORY OVER SIN CHRIST’S VICTORY OVER THE DEVIL CHRIST’S VICTORY OVER DEATH

CHAPTER XXXVII: CHRIST’S DEATH AND DESCENT INTO HELL

QUESTION 50: CHRIST’S DEATH FIRST ARTICLE: SECOND ARTICLE: THIRD ARTICLE: FOURTH ARTICLE: FIFTH ARTICLE: SIXTH ARTICLE: QUESTION 51: CHRIST’S BURIAL FIRST ARTICLE: SECOND ARTICLE: THIRD ARTICLE: FOURTH ARTICLE: QUESTION 52: CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL FIRST ARTICLE: SECOND ARTICLE: IT WAS FITTING FOR CHRIST TO DESCEND INTO HELL THIRD ARTICLE: FOURTH ARTICLE: FIFTH ARTICLE: SIXTH ARTICLE: SEVENTH ARTICLE: EIGHTH ARTICLE

CHAPTER XXXVIII: CHRIST’S RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION

QUESTION 53: CHRIST’S RESURRECTION FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IT WAS NECESSARY FOR CHRIST TO RISE AGAIN SECOND ARTICLE: IT WAS FITTING FOR CHRIST TO RISE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY THIRD ARTICLE: FOURTH ARTICLE: QUESTION 54: FIRST ARTICLE: SECOND ARTICLE: THIRD ARTICLE: FOURTH ARTICLE: QUESTION 55 FIRST ARTICLE: SECOND ARTICLE: THIRD ARTICLE: FOURTH ARTICLE: FIFTH AND SIXTH ARTICLES QUESTION 56 QUESTION 57: CHRIST’S ASCENSION FIRST ARTICLE: SECOND ARTICLE: THIRD ARTICLE: FOURTH ARTICLE: FIFTH ARTICLE: SIXTH ARTICLE:

CHAPTER XXXIX: CHRIST THE KING, JUDGE, AND HEAD OF THE BLESSED

FIRST ARTICLE: CHRIST THE KING SECOND ARTICLE: (Q. 59): CHRIST THE JUDGE THIRD ARTICLE: CHRIST THE HEAD OF THE BLESSED

CHAPTER XL: COMPENDIUM OF MARIOLOGY

FIRST ARTICLE: THE EMINENT DIGNITY OF THE DIVINE MOTHERHOOD SECOND ARTICLE: THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY THIRD ARTICLE: THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY WAS PRESERVED FROM ALL ACTUAL SIN, EVEN VENIAL SIN FOURTH ARTICLE: THE BEGINNING OF PERFECTION IN THE BLESSED VIRGIN’S FULLNESS OF GRACE FIFTH ARTICLE: THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY’S INCREASE IN GRACE SIXTH ARTICLE: THE FINAL PLENITUDE OF GRACE IN MARY SEVENTH ARTICLE: THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY’S UNIVERSAL MEDIATION APPENDIX: THE DEFINABILITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY’S ASSUMPTION

CHRISTIAN PERFECTION AND CONTEMPLATION

CONTENTS CHRISTIAN PERFECTION AND CONTEMPLATION

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION CHAPTER II THE ACTUAL MYSTICAL PROBLEM

ARTICLE 1 OBJECT AND METHOD OF ASCETICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY

I. THE MEANING OF ASCETICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY; ITS OBJECT II. THE PRINCIPLES AND METHOD OF ASCETICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY

ARTICLE II THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ASCETICAL THEOLOGY AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY AND THE UNITY OF SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE

I. TRADITIONAL THESIS: THE UNITY OF SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE II. THESIS OF SEVERAL MODERN AUTHORS: SEPARATION OF ASCETICAL FROM MYSTICAL THEOLOGY III. RETURN TO THE TRADITIONAL THESIS: UNITY OF SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE

ARTICLE III MEANING OF THE TERMS OF THE PROBLEM

CHAPTER III MYSTICAL THEOLOGY AND THE FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINES OF ST. THOMAS

ARTICLE I NATURAL INTELLECTUAL LIFE AND SUPERNATURAL LIFE ARTICLE II MYSTICAL THEOLOGY AND THE ESSENTIALLY SUPERNATURAL CHARACTER OF INFUSED FAITH ARTICLE III MYSTICAL THEOLOGY AND THE DOCTRINE OF ST. THOMAS ON THE EFFICACY OF GRACE ARTICLE IV THE PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE DOCTRINE OF ST. THOMAS ON GRACE

CHAPTER IV THE FULL PERFECTION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE

ARTICLE I CHRISTIAN PERFECTION OR THE BEGINNING OF ETERNAL LIFE

ETERNAL LIFE IN ITS COMPLETE DEVELOPMENT BEGINNING OF ETERNAL LIFE

ARTICLE II CHRISTIAN PERFECTION CONSISTS ESPECIALLY IN CHARITY

ERRONEOUS OR INCOMPLETE DOCTRINES ON THE ESSENCE OF PERFECTION TRUE SOLUTION: PERFECTION CONSISTS CHIEFLY IN CHARITY THE OBJECTION OF INTELLECTUALS: WHY IS CHARITY SUPERIOR TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD PERFECTION IS A PLENITUDE

ARTICLE III THE FULL PERFECTION OF CHARITY PRESUPPOSES THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SENSES AND OF THE SPIRIT

I. DOCTRINE OF ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS ON THE PERFECTION OF CHARITY

ARTICLE IV ACCORDING TO TRADITION THE FULL PERFECTION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE BELONGS TO THE MYSTICAL ORDER

RELATIVE PERFECTION HEROISM AND SANCTITY

ARTICLE V PERFECTION AND THE PRECEPT OF THE LOVE OF GOD

A. IS THE FIRST PRECEPT WITHOUT LIMIT? B. THREE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PRECEPT OF THE LOVE OF GOD

CHAPTER V CONTEMPLATION AND ITS DEGREES

ARTICLE I PRAYER IN GENERAL AND COMMON PRAYER

I. THE PRAYER OF PETITION II. COMMON PRAYER III. HOW TO ATTAIN TO A LIFE OF PRAYER AND PERSEVERE IN IT

ARTICLE II MEANING OF “CONTEMPLATION,” “ORDINARY,” “EXTRAORDINARY”

I. SO-CALLED ACQUIRED CONTEMPLATION AND INFUSED CONTEMPLATION II. THE ORDINARY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY IN THE SUPERNATURAL LIFE

ARTICLE III DESCRIPTION OF INFUSED CONTEMPLATION AND ITS DEGREES ACCORDING TO ST. TERESA

I. THE MYSTICAL STATE IN GENERAL: PREPARATION; GENERAL CALL AND INDIVIDUAL CALL; NATURE OF THE MYSTICAL STATE II. THE DEGREES OF THE MYSTICAL STATE; FROM THE FOURTH TO THE SEVENTH MANSIONS

ARTICLE IV WHAT INFUSED CONTEMPLATION DOES NOT ESSENTIALLY REQUIRE ARTICLE V THE ESSENTIAL RELATION OF INFUSED CONTEMPLATION AND OF THE MYSTICAL LIFE WITH THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST

THE SPECIAL INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY GHOST AND COMMON, ACTUAL GRACE

ARTICLE VI THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTER OF INFUSED CONTEMPLATION; HOW IT PROCEEDS FROM THE GIFT OF WISDOM AND FROM FAITH

I. THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM IN SCRIPTURE II. THE GIFT OF WISDOM AND INFUSED CONTEMPLATION ACCORDING TO THEOLOGY III. PROGRESSIVE PREDOMINANCE OF THE DIVINE MODE OF THE GIFT OF WISDOM IN PRAYER IV. WHETHER CONTEMPLATION PROCEEDS EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE GIFT OF WISDOM, OR ALSO FROM FAITH UNITED TO CHARITY V. THE FRUITS OF THE HOLY GHOST AND THE BEATITUDES

CHAPTER VI THE CALL TO CONTEMPLATION OR TO THE MYSTICAL LIFE

ARTICLE I THE DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF THE WORD “CALL” ARTICLE II THE GENERAL AND REMOTE CALL TO MYSTICAL CONTEMPLATION

THE THREE PRINCIPAL REASONS WHICH ESTABLISH THE GENERAL AND REMOTE CALL A. THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF THE MYSTICAL LIFE IS THE SAME AS THAT OF THE COMMON INTERIOR LIFE MYSTICAL ORDER

ARTICLE III THE INDIVIDUAL AND PROXIMATE CALL TO CONTEMPLATION

I. THE THREE PRINCIPAL SIGNS OF THE PROXIMATE CALL II OBSTACLES TO THIS PROXIMATE CALL; ITS VARIETIES

ARTICLE IV THE CONDITIONS ORDINARILY REQUIRED FOR INFUSED CONTEMPLATION

1. AN EXAMINATION OF THE PRINCIPAL DIFFICULTIES RELATING TO THE GENERAL CALL 2. PARTICULAR OBSTACLES TO CONTEMPLATION 3. WHAT SHOULD BE THOUGHT OF SOULS THAT HAVE RECEIVED ONLY ONE OR TWO TALENTS? 4. IS THIS DOCTRINE OF A NATURE TO LEAD SOME SOULS TO PRESUMPTION AND OTHERS TO DISCOURAGEMENT? SOME THEORETICAL DIFFICULTIES: CAN THE GRACE OF CONTEMPLATION BE MERITED? ARE THE REQUIRED CONDITIONS NORMAL? VENIAL SIN AND IMPERFECTION, OBSTACLES TO DIVINE UNION

ARTICLE V EXTRAORDINARY GRACES THAT SOMETIMES ACCOMPANY INFUSED CONTEMPLATION

DIVINE REVELATIONS VISIONS II CONFUSIONS TO BE AVOIDED IN EXPOUNDING THE TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE

GOD

CONTENTS GOD

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION

PART I THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

CHAPTER I WHAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES ABOUT GOD’S EXISTENCE AND HIS NATURE, AND THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH WE CAN HAVE OF HIM BY MEANS OF THE NATURAL LIGHT OF REASON. CHAPTER II THE POSSIBILITY OF PROVING THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

SECTION I WHAT GENUS AND WHAT SPECIES OF DEMONSTRATION DOES THIS DEMONSTRABILITY DEMAND? SECTION II OBJECTIONS RAISED AGAINST THE DEMONSTRABILITY OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. EMPIRICAL AND IDEALISTIC AGNOSTICISM SECTION III PROOF OF THE DEMONSTRABILITY OF GOD’S EXISTENCE ARTICLE I THE ONTOLOGICAL VALIDITY OF FIRST IDEAS AND FIRST PRINCIPLES

TABULATION OF THE MORES OF BEING

ARTICLE II THE TRANSCENDENTAL VALIDITY OF FIRST IDEAS AND FIRST PRINCIPLES

CHAPTER III EXPOSÉ OF THE PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

APPENDIX THE THOMISTIC PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE NOTION OF PROPER CAUSE

FIRST PROOF: FROM MOTION SECOND PROOF: FROM EFFICIENT CAUSES THIRD PROOF: FROM THE CONTINGENCY OF BEINGS IN THE WORLD FOURTH PROOF: FROM THE DEGREES OF PERFECTION IN BEINGS FIFTH PROOF: FROM THE ORDER PREVAILING IN THE UNIVERSE THE ONE END TO WHICH ALL FIVE PROOFS CONVERGE

PART II THE NATURE OF GOD AND HIS ATTRIBUTES

CHAPTER I WHAT FORMALLY CONSTITUTES THE DIVINE NATURE ACCORDING TO OUR IMPERFECT MODE OF KNOWING IT CHAPTER II THE DERIVATION OF THE ATTRIBUTES FROM SELF-SUBSISTING BEING

ARTICLE I ATTRIBUTES RELATIVE TO THE BEING OF GOD ARTICLE II ATTRIBUTES RELATIVE TO THE DIVINE OPERATIONS

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CHAPTER III RECONCILIATION OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES: THEIR FORMAL EXISTENCE AND THEIR IDENTIFICATION IN THE EMINENCE OF THE DEITY

ARTICLE I THE APPARENT ANTINOMIES ARTICLE II EXPLANATION REGARDING THE PHILOSOPHICAL MYSTERY IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE ABSOLUTE PERFECTIONS OF GOD

CHAPTER IV THE SPECIAL ANTINOMIES RELATING TO FREEDOM CHAPTER V GOD’S INEFFABILITY AND THE ABSURDITY OF THE UNKNOWABLE.

CONCLUSION AND CONFIRMATION APPENDIX I NOTE ON THE VALIDITY OF THE PRINCIPLES OF INERTIA AND CONSERVATION OF ENERGY APPENDIX II NOTE ON THE SIMPLICITY OF THE ANALOGICAL NOTION OF BEING APPENDIX III THE VARIOUS FORMS OF PANTHEISM REFUTED BE ST. THOMAS

I. WHAT FORMS OF PANTHEISM WERE KNOWN TO ST. THOMAS II. WHERE AND HOW ST. THOMAS REFUTED THESE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PANTHEISM III. THE TRUTH, THAT PANTHEISM DISTORTS, IS TO BE FOUND IN THE THOMIST DOCTRINE OF DIVINE CAUSALITY

A SYNTHESIS OF THE DOCTRINE OF ST. THOMAS ON THESE QUESTIONS APROPOS OF A NEW PRESENTATION OF THE SCIENTIA MEDIA

CHAPTER I DOES THE JUDGMENT PASSED BY THE THOMISTS UPON THE SCIENTIA MEDIA REST UPON A COMPLETE IGNORATIO ELENCHI?

ARTICLE I MOLINISM RESTRICTS GOD’S UNIVERSAL CAUSALITY AND EVEN THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSALITY ARTICLE II DOES THE SCIENTIA MEDIA POSIT A PASSIVITY IN THE PURE ACT? ARTICLE III DOES THE SCIENTIA MEDIA LEAD TO DETERMINATION OF CIRCUMSTANCES?

CHAPTER II THE SCIENTIA MEDIA PRESENTED UNDER A NEW ASPECT CHAPTER III THE SOLUTION OF ST. THOMAS

OBJECTIONS

CHAPTER IV THE RESULTS OF THIS CONTROVERSY

ARTICLE I THE UNIVERSAL CAUSALITY OF GOD ARTICLE II HOW ARE WE TO AVOID POSITING A PASSIVITY IN THE PURE ACT AND ESCAPE DETERMINISM OF CIRCUMSTANCES? ARTICLE III THE DIVINE PREDETERMINING DECREES ACCORDING TO BOSSUET ARTICLE IV THE DIVINE MOTION ACCORDING TO THE CATECHISM OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT AND LEO XIII’S ENCYCLICAL LETTER ON LIBERTY

EPILOGUE

GOD DETERMINING OR DETERMINED; NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE A QUESTION OF WORDS A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION FOR THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN POTENCY AND ACT ACCORDING TO ST. THOMAS DEFINITION OF POTENCY AND THE NECESSITY OF A REAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN IT AND ACT

GRACE

CONTENTS GRACE

PREFACE CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

MEANINGS OF THE WORD “GRACE” ERRORS CONCERNING GRACE THE PSEUDO-SUPERNATURALISM OF PREDESTINATIONISM, PROTESTANTISM, BAIANISM, AND JANSENISM THE VARIOUS STATES OF HUMAN NATURE THE POSSIBILITY OF THE STATE OF PURE NATURE THE VARIOUS DEGREES OF DIVINE MOTION GENERAL HELP AND SPECIAL HELP

CHAPTER II QUESTION 109 THE NECESSITY OF GRACE

ARTICLE I WHETHER WITHOUT GRACE MAN CAN KNOW ANY TRUTH

OBJECTIONS

ARTICLE II WHETHER MAN CAN WILL TO DO ANY GOOD WITHOUT GRACE ARTICLE III WHETHER MAN CAN LOVE GOD ABOVE ALL THINGS WITHOUT GRACE, BY HIS MERELY NATURAL POWER

I. THE TEACHING OF ST. THOMAS II.CONFIRMATION OF THIS DOCTRINE OF ST. THOMAS FROM THE CONDEMNATION OF BAIUS (cf. Denz., nos.1034, 1036, 1038) AND QUESNEL (Denz.,nos. 1394-95) III. CONTROVERSIES AMONG MODERN THEOLOGIANS ON THIS SUBJECT

ARTICLE IV WHETHER MAN, WITHOUT GRACE, BY HIS NATURAL POWERS, CAN FULFILL THE PRECEPTS OF THE NATURAL LAW

I. ST. THOMAS’ CONCLUSION II. THE BASES OF TRADITION

ARTICLE V WHETHER MAN CAN MERIT ETERNAL LIFE WITHOUT GRACE ARTICLE VI WHETHER MAN CAN PREPARE HIMSELF FOR GRACE BY HIMSELF WITHOUT THE EXTERIOR HELP OF GRACE

REFUTATION OF THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIONS OF THE MOLINISTS

ARTICLE VII WHETHER MAN CAN RISE FROM SIN WITHOUT THE HELP OF GRACE ARTICLE VIII WHETHER WITHOUT GRACE MAN CAN AVOID SIN ARTICLE IX WHETHER THE JUST MAN CAN PERFORM GOOD WORKS (AVAILING TO SALVATION) AND AVOID SIN WITHOUT ACTUAL GRACE ARTICLE X WHETHER MAN I N THE STATE OF GRACE REQUIRES THE HELP OF GRACE TO PERSEVERE

I. ERRORS ON THIS SUBJECT II. THE TEACHING OF SCRIPTURE AND THE CHURCH III. ST. THOMAS’ CONCLUSION IV. DOUBTS REFUTATIONS OF OBJECTIONS

CHAPTER III QUESTION 110 THE GRACE OF GOD WITH RESPECT TO ITS ESSENCE

ARTICLE I WHETHER GRACE POSITS ANYTHING IN THE SOUL

CONFIRMATION FROM THE REFUTATION OF OBJECTIONS

ARTICLE II WHETHER GRACE IS A QUALITY OF THE SOUL

RECAPITULATION: THE DIGNITY OF SANCTIFYING GRACE

ARTICLE III WHETHER GRACE IS IDENTICAL WITH VIRTUE, PARTICULARLY WITH CHARITY ARTICLE IV WHETHER HABITUAL GRACE IS IN THE ESSENCE OF THE SOUL AS I N A SUBJECT

CHAPTER IV QUESTION 111 THE DIVISIONS OF GRACE

ARTICLE I WHETHER GRACE IS PROPERLY DIVIDED INTO SANCTIFYING GRACE AND GRACE GRATIS DATA ARTICLE IV WHETHER GRACE GRATIS DATA IS ADEQUATELY SUBDIVIDED BY THE APOSTLE (I COR. 12:8-10) ARTICLE V WHETHER GRACE GRATIS DATA IS SUPERIOR TO SANCTIFYING GRACE ARTICLE II WHETHER GRACE IS PROPERLY DIVIDED INTO OPERATIVE AND COOPERATIVE GRACE

SOME FALSE NOTIONS CONCERNING OPERATIVE AND COOPERATIVE GRACE ( CF. SALMANTICENSES)

ARTICLE III WHETHER GRACE IS PROPERLY DIVIDED INTO PREVENIENT AND SUBSEQUENT GRACE

THE DIVISION OF ACTUAL GRACE INTO STIMULATING AND ASSISTING GRACE (CF. DEL PRADO, OP. CIT., I, 243)

CHAPTER V THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH

I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: STATE OF THE QUESTION 2. THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH ON SUFFICIENT GRACE 3. THE MIND OF ST. AUGUSTINE AND ST. THOMAS 4. THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH ON EFFICACIOUS GRACE

CHAPTER VI SUFFICIENT GRACE

1. VARIOUS THEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS WITH REGARD TO SUFFICIENT AND EFFICACIOUS GRACE 2. IN WHAT SENSE SUFFICIENT GRACE IS TO BE ACCEPTED AND HOW IT IS DIVIDED 3. REFUTATION OF OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE THOMISTIC THESIS OF SUFFICIENT GRACE 4. THE OPINION OF J. GONZALEZ DE ALBEDA O.P 5. THE OPINION OF ST. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI 6. FINAL DIFFICULTY WITH REGARD TO SUFFICIENT GRACE AND THE DEPTH OF THIS MYSTERY

CHAPTER VII EFFICACIOUS GRACE

REFUTATION OF OBJECTIONS

CHAPTER VIII EXCURSUS ON EFFICACIOUS GRACE

1. EFFICACIOUS GRACE AND FACILE ACTS CONDUCIVE TO SALVATION 2. EFFICACIOUS GRACE IN RELATION TO SPIRITUALITY 3. EFFICACIOUS GRACE IN THE SAINTS, ESPECIALLY THE MARTYRS 4. THE EFFICACIOUS GRACE OF MOST ARDENT LOVE, ACCORDING TO ST. THERESA (SIXTH MANSION, CHAP. 2) 5. EFFICACIOUS GRACE IN CHRIST, IMPECCABLE AND FREELY OBEDIENT

CHAPTER IX QUESTION 112 THE CAUSE OF GRACE

ARTICLE I WHETHER GOD ALONE IS THE CAUSE OF GRACE

REFUTATION OF OBJECTIONS

ARTICLE II WHETHER ANY PREPARATION OR DISPOSITION FOR GRACE IS REQUIRED ON THE PART OF MAN ARTICLE III WHETHER HABITUAL GRACE IS NECESSARILY GIVEN TO A PERSON WHO PREPARES HIMSELF FOR GRACE OR DOES WHAT LIES WITHIN HIS POWER ARTICLE IV WHETHER GRACE IS GREATER IN ONE MAN THAN IN ANOTHER ARTICLE V WHETHER MAN CAN KNOW THAT HE POSSESSES GRACE

SOLUTION OF THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIONS

CHAPTER X QUESTION 113 THE EFFECTS OF GRACE

PART ONE: THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE WICKED, OR SINNERS ARTICLE I WHETHER THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE WICKED IS THE REMISSION OF SINS ARTICLE II WHETHER AN INFUSION OF GRACE IS NECESSARY FOR THE REMISSION OF GUILT, WHICH IS THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE WICKED PART TWO: THE ACTS WHICH CONCUR IN THE JUSTIFICATION OF A N ADULT SINNER ARTICLE III WHETHER A MOVEMENT OF THE FREE WILL IS REQUIRED FOR THE JUSTIFICATION OF A N ADULT GUILTY OF SIN ARTICLE IV WHETHER A MOVEMENT OF FAITH IS REQUIRED FOR THE JUSTIFICATION OF AN ADULT GUILTY OF SIN ARTICLE V WHETHER THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE WICKED REQUIRES A MOVEMENT OF THE FREE WILL IN RELATION TO SIN ARTICLE VI WHETHER THE REMISSION OF SIN SHOULD BE NUMBERED AMONG THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE JUSTIFICATION OF SINNERS ARTICLE VII WHETHER THE JUSTIFICATION OF SINNERS TAKES PLACE I N AN INSTANT OR SUCCESSIVELY ARTICLE VIII WHETHER THE INFUSION OF GRACE IS FIRST IN ORDER OF NATURE AMONG THE REQUIREMENTS ARTICLE IX WHETHER THE JUSTIFICATION OF SINNERS IS THE GREATEST WORK OF GOD ARTICLE X WHETHER THE JUSTIFICATIONOF SINNERS IS MIRACULOUS

THE INDWELLING OF THE MOST BLESSED TRINITY TO WHICH JUSTIFICATION TERMINATES

CHAPTER XI QUESTION 114 MERIT

ARTICLE I WHETHER MAN CAN MERIT ANYTHING FROM GOD

OBSERVATION

ARTICLE II WHETHER A PERSON WITHOUT GRACE CAN MERIT ETERNAL LIFE

REFUTATION OF OBJECTIONS

ARTICLE III WHETHER A JUST MAN CAN MERIT ETERNAL LIFE EX CONDIGNO ARTICLE IV WHETHER GRACE IS THE PRINCIPLE OF MERIT PRINCIPALLY BY CHARITY

WHAT IS INCLUDED UNDER MERIT (A. 6-10)

ARTICLE V WHETHER MAN CAN MERIT THE FIRST GRACE FOR HIMSELF

REFUTATION OF OBJECTIONS

ARTICLE VI WHETHER THE JUST MAN CAN MERIT THE FIRST GRACE FOR ANOTHER

REFUTATION OF THE OBJECTIONS

ARTICLE VII WHETHER THE JUST MAN CAN MERIT HIS OWN RESTORATION AFTER A FALL ARTICLE VIII WHETHER MAN CAN MERIT AN INCREASE OF GRACE OR CHARITY ARTICLE IX WHETHER A MAN CAN MERIT THE GIFT OF FINAL PERSEVERANCE FOR HIMSELF

REFUTATION OF OBJECTIONS

ARTICLE X WHETHER TEMPORAL GOODS FALL UNDER MERIT

CHAPTER XII RECAPITULATION AND SUPPLEMENT

I. WHETHER SANCTIFYING GRACE IS A FORMAL PARTICIPATION IN DEITY AS IT IS IN ITSELF

NOTE SUPERNATURAL AND NATURAL BEATITUDE

II. THE PRINCIPLE OF PREDILECTION AND EFFICACIOUS GRACE”

THE BASIS, NECESSITY, AND UNIVERSALITY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF PREDILECTION THE PRINCIPAL APPLICATIONS OF THE PRINCIPLE OF PREDILECTION, ACCORDING TO ST. THOMAS

III. THE ULTIMATE BASIS OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SUFFICIENT AND EFFICACIOUS GRACE

ANTECEDENT AND CONSEQUENT DIVINE WILL THE ULTIMATE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TWO WILLS AND THE TWO GRACES RESTS CONSEQUENCES OF THIS PRINCIPLE THE PROBLEM CONCLUSION

IV. THE BAÑEZIAN COMEDY AND CONTEMPORARY SYNCRETISM

THE NEW SYNCRETISM CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THIS SYNCRETISM REFUTATION OF THE OBJECTIONS CONCLUSION

V. HABIT AND ACT ARE SPECIFIED BY THEIR FORMAL

OBJECT: THE UNIVERSALITY OF THIS PRINCIPLE THE UNIVERSALITY OF THIS PRINCIPLE ACCORDING TO ARISTOTLE AND ST. THOMAS WHETHER THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE PRECEDING PRINCIPLE CAN BE DENIED OR DEMANDS LIMITATION

VI. THE SUPERNATURALNESS OF FAITH AND ITS INFALLIBLE CERTAINTY VII. THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION OF SONS OF GOD

APPENDIX WHETHER AVERSION FROM THE SUPERNATURAL END CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT AVERSION FROM THE NATURAL END

LIFE EVERLASTING

CONTENTS LIFE EVERLASTING

PREFACE TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

PART 1 SOUL IMMENSITY IN OUR PRESENT LIFE

1. SENSIBILITY 2. WILL AND INTELLECT 3. SOUL IMMENSITY AND BEATIFIC VISION 4. THE SOURCE OF LIBERTY 5. THE ROOTS OF VICE AND VIRTUE 6. PURGATORY BEFORE DEATH - THE NIGHT OF THE SOUL

PART 2 DEATH AND JUDGEMENT

7. FINAL IMPENITENCE 8. THE GRACE OF A HAPPY DEATH - THE GIFT OF PERSEVERANCE 9. IMMUTABILITY AFTER DEATH 10. THE PARTICULAR JUDGMENT 11. THE LAST JUDGMENT 12. KNOWLEDGE IN THE SEPARATED SOUL

PART 3 HELL

13. THE SCRIPTURES CONCERNING HELL 14. THEOLOGICAL REASONS 230 15. ETERNAL HELL AND DIVINE PERFECTIONS 16. THE PAIN OF LOSS 17. THE PAIN OF SENSE 18. DEGREES OF PAIN 19. HELL AND OUR OWN AGE

PART 4 PURGATORY

20. TEACHING OF THE CHURCH 21. ARGUMENTS OF APPROPRIATENESS 23. PURGATORY’S CHIEF PAIN 24. THE PAIN OF SENSE 25. THEIR STATE OF SOUL 26. CHARITY FOR THE POOR SOULS

PART 5 HEAVEN

27. THE EXISTENCE OF HEAVEN 28. THE NATURE OF ETERNAL BEATITUDE 29. THE SUBLIMITY OF THE BEATIFIC VISION 30. BEATIFIC JOY 31. ACCIDENTAL BEATITUDE 32. THE NUMBER OF THE ELECT EPILOGUE

OUR SAVIOUR AND HIS LOVE FOR US

CONTENTS OUR SAVIOUR AND HIS LOVE FOR US

PREFACE

PART ONE THE MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION AND THE PERSONALITY OF THE SAVIOR

THE INTERIOR LIFE AND THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST

THE INTIMATE CONVERSATION OF EVERY MAN WITH HIMSELF AND THE BASIC TENDENCIES OF THE WILL WHAT CHRIST MUST BE TO US

II JESUS, THE SON OF GOD ACCORDING TO THE FIRST THREE GOSPELS

JESUS’ RESERVE IN MANIFESTING HIS DIVINITY THE DIVINE RIGHTS CLAIMED BY JESUS NOW, HE WHO IS SUPERIOR TO ALL THE PROPHETS AND TO THE ANGELS IS SUPERIOR TO ALL CREATURES. THE DIVINE SONSHIP OF JESUS ACCORDING TO THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS

III OUR SAVIOR, THE AUTHOR OF LIFE, ACCORDING TO THE FIRST SERMONS OF ST. PETER AND OF THE APOSTLES

ST. PETER’S DISCOURSES IN THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. STEPHEN AND THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL, SIGNS OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS

IV THE MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION ACCORDING TO ST. PAUL

ST. PAUL’S HABITUAL CONTEMPLATION AND HIS CHRISTOLOGY THE DIVINE SONSHIP OF JESUS ACCORDING TO ST. PAUL

V THE WORD MADE FLESH ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN

THE PROLOGUE JESUS MANIFESTS HIS MISSION AND HIS DIVINITY DURING HIS PUBLIC LIFE JESUS MANIFESTS HIS DIVINITY DURING HIS SUFFERING AND IN HIS GLORY

VI THE PROPHETIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SAVIOR

THE PROPHECIES OF THE PATRIARCHAL PERIOD THE PERIOD OF THE KINGS THE PERIOD OF THE PROPHETS THE POWER OF THE PROPHECIES

VII THE DIVINE PERSONALITY OF JESUS

GOD HAS GIVEN HIMSELF IN PERSON TO HUMANITY THE FULL DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN PERSONALITY AND UNION WITH GOD THE HYPOSTATIC UNION

NOTE PERSONALITY

IN WHAT IT IS FORMALLY CONSTITUTED

VIII THE FITTINGNESS OF THE INCARNATION AND OUR INTERIOR LIFE

FAITH INCREASED TENFOLD HOPE STRENGTHENED MORE ARDENT CHARITY

IX THE MOTIVE OF THE INCARNATION AND THE INTIMATE LIFE OF JESUS

THE MOTIVE OF THE INCARNATION, A MOTIVE OF MERCY GOD HAS PERMITTED EVIL, MAN’S SIN, ONLY IN VIEW OF A GREATER GOOD THE PRIMORDIAL TRAIT OF THE SPIRITUAL: PHYSIOGNOMY OF JESUS

X THE PREDESTINATION OF CHRIST

THE EXCEPTIONAL NATURE OF CHRIST’S PREDESTINATION CHRIST’S PREDESTINATION, THE CAUSE OF OUR OWN

XI THE SANCTITY OF JESUS

JESUS WAS WITHOUT SIN JESUS FREE FROM ALL IMPERFECTIONS THE INNATE, SUBSTANTIAL, UNCREATED AND INAMISSIBLE SANCTITY OF JESUS THE FULLNESS OF CREATED GRACE THE CONSEQUENCES FOR US

XII THE HUMAN INTELLIGENCE OF THE SAVIOR AND HIS CONTEMPLATION

WHAT KIND OF TEACHER WAS JESUS? THIS SUBLIMITY IS NO LESS APPARENT IN THE MORAL TEACHING OF JESUS THAN IN THE MYSTERIES HE REVEALED. HOW JESUS TAUGHT OUR SAVIOR’S CONTEMPLATION SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN THE SAVIOR’S CONTEMPLATION ACCORDING TO THEOLOGY

XIII THE HUMAN WILL OF OUR SAVIOR

THE MYSTERY GOD’S IMPECCABLE LIBERTY CHRIST’S IMPECCABLE LIBERTY, THE PERFECT IMAGE OF GOD’S LIBERTY

PART TWO OUR SAVIOR’S LOVE FOR US AND THE MYSTERY OF REDEMPTION

XIV THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS ON THE MYSTERY OF THE REDEMPTION

THE MYSTERY OF THE REDEMPTION IN THE FIRST THREE GOSPELS THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IN THE FOURTH GOSPEL

XV THE REDEMPTION ACCORDING TO ST. PAUL

THE MEANING OF THIS DOGMA AND THE CONTRARY ERRORS THE TESTIMONY OF ST. PAUL ON THE REDEMPTION THE DOCTRINE OF THE REDEMPTION AND ITS THEOLOGICAL EXPLANATION THE DEPTH OF THIS MYSTERY AND THE ERRORS OPPOSED TO IT

XVI GOD’S LOVE FOR HIS SON IN THE MYSTERY OF THE REDEMPTION

GOD HAS WISHED FOR HIS SON THE GLORY OF THE REDEMPTION THROUGH LOVE OF HIS SON, GOD ASKED OF HIM THE MOST HEROIC LOVE

XVII CHRIST’S REDEMPTIVE LOVE

THE TENDERNESS AND STRENGTH THE STRENGTH AND TENDERNESS

XVIII JESUS’ HUMILITY AND HIS MAGNANIMITY

THE PRINCIPLE OF CHRIST’S HUMILITY THE UNION OF HUMILITY AND MAGNANIMITY IN JESUS

XIX OUR SAVIOR’S PRAYER

HOW JESUS PRAYED WHILE ON EARTH OUR SAVIOR’S PRAYER FOR US IN HEAVEN

XX THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST

ST. PAUL’S TESTIMONY CHRIST’S PRIESTHOOD, THE MOST PERFECT CONCEIVABLE WHAT FORMALLY CONSTITUTES CHRIST’S PRIESTHOOD

XXI THE INFINITE MERITS OF CHRIST

THE TESTIMONY OF ST. PAUL MERIT IN GENERAL. ITS CONDITIONS WHAT DID OUR LORD MERIT FOR HIMSELF AND FOR US?

XXII THE LAST SUPPER AND THE EUCHARISTIC HEART OF JESUS

THE GIFT OF SELF, AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE THE EUCHARISTIC HEART OF JESUS AND THE GIFT OF SELF IN THE INSTITUTION OF THE EUCHARIST THE EUCHARISTIC HEART OF JESUS AND THE DAILY AND CEASELESS GIFT OF HIMSELF

XXIII THE PEACE OF JESUS DURING HIS PASSION

THE FULLNESS OF GRACE AND REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING PEACE IN SUFFERING

XXIV JESUS, PRIEST AND VICTIM ON THE CROSS

DIVINE STRENGTH IN WEAKNESS THE FORTITUDE OF THE SAVIOR IN HIS IMMOLATION

XXV CHRIST’S VICTORY OVER DEATH

WHAT WE MUST BELIEVE ABOUT: CHRIST’S VICTORY OVER SIN CHRIST’S VICTORY OVER DEATH, THE SIGN OF HIS VICTORY OVER SIN

XXVI THE PRINCIPAL PRIEST OF THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

IN WHAT SENSE JESUS IS THE PRINCIPAL PRIEST OF THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS CHRIST’S INTERIOR OBLATION ALWAYS ALIVE IN HIS HEART

XXVII THE INFINITE VALUE OF EACH MASS OFFERED UP BY OUR LORD

THE INFINITE VALUE OF THE MASS WHAT EFFECTS CAN THE MASS PRODUCE IN US?

XXVIII SOVEREIGN REDEMPTION AND ITS FRUITS IN MARY

THE PRESERVATIVE REDEMPTION HOW CAN THESE THINGS BE RECONCILED? THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PRESERVATIVE REDEMPTION

XXIX THE INTIMACY OF CHRIST XXX OUR PARTICIPATION IN THE MYSTERIES OF OUR LORD’S LIFE

THE MEANING OF THE INCARNATION FOR CERTAIN CONTEMPLATIVES

XXXI THE GRACE OF CHRIST AND THE MYSTICS OUTSIDE THE CHURCH

NATURAL PRE-MYSTICISM AND SUPERNATURAL MYSTICISM 1. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE PROBLEM II. ELEMENTS OF THE SOLUTION NATURAL KNOWLEDGE AND NATURAL LOVE OF GOD SUPERIOR INSPIRATION AND ITS VARIOUS FORMS THE ORDER OF POSSIBILITY AND THE ORDER OF EXISTENCE

XXXII EPILOGUE

GLORY TO GOD THE FATHER THE SON THE HOLY GHOST

PREDESTINATION

CONTENTS PREDESTINATION

PREFACE TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

PART I THE TEACHING OF THE CHURCH AND THE THEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

CHAPTER I THE SIGNIFICANCE AND REALITY OF PREDESTINATION ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE CHAPTER II THE TEACHING OF THE CHURCH

DECLARATIONS OF THE CHURCH AGAINST PELAGIANISM AND SEMIPELAGIANISM DECLARATIONS OF THE CHURCH AGAINST PREDESTINARIANISM

CHAPTER III THE PRINCIPAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE PROBLEM AND THE METHOD OF PROCEDURE

THE DIFFICULTIES THE METHOD TO BE FOLLOWED

CHAPTER IV THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE THEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

THE SYSTEMS COMPARED

CHAPTER V THE STANDPOINT OF ST. AUGUSTINE AND HIS FIRST DISCIPLES

THE GRATUITY OF PREDESTINATION ACCORDING TO ST. AUGUSTINE ST. AUGUSTINE’S FIRST DISCIPLES

PART II THE PRINCIPAL SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEM OF PREDESTINATION SECTION I THE VIEWS OF PREDESTINATION HELD BY THE SCHOLARS OF THE MIDDLE AGES

CHAPTER I THE THEOLOGIANS PRIOR TO ST. THOMAS

ST. ANSELM PETER LOMBARD ALEXANDER OF HALES ST. BONAVENTURE ST. ALBERT THE GREAT

CHAPTER II THE DOCTRINAL PRINCIPLES OF ST. THOMAS

THE PRINCIPLE OF THE THOMIST SYNTHESIS THE UNIVERSAL WILL TO SAVE THE PRINCIPLE OF PREDILECTION AND WHAT THE ANTECEDENT AND CONSEQUENT WILLS

CHAPTER III THE NATURE AND REASON OF PREDESTINATION ACCORDING TO ST. THOMAS CHAPTER IV THE SCRIPTURAL BACKGROUND FOR THE TEACHING OF ST. THOMAS

EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS THE GRATUITY OF PREDESTINATION IN THE THEOLOGICAL SUMMA THE PRINCIPAL DIFFICULTY CONCLUSION

CHAPTER V PREDESTINATION AND THE VIEWS OF THE FIRST THOMISTS CHAPTER VI PREDESTINATION ACCORDING TO THE TEACHING OF DUNS SCOTUS

CONCLUSIONS

SECTION II PREDESTINATION ACCORDING TO THE TENETS OF PROTESTANTISM AND JANSENISM

CHAPTER I PROTESTANTISM

CONDEMNATION OF THE PROTESTANT THESES

CHAPTER II BAIANISM AND JANSENISM

SECTION III PREDESTINATION ACCORDING TO THE TEACHING OF THE POST-TRIDENTINE THEOLOGIANS

CHAPTER I PREDESTINATION ACCORDING TO THE THEORY ADVOCATED BY MOLINA AND THE MOLINISTS

WHAT MOLINISM AFFIRMS PRINCIPLES OF MOLINISM WHAT IS THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENT IN MOLINISM? THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIONS RAISED AGAINST MOLINISM

CHAPTER II PREDESTINATION AS EXPLAINED BY THE CONGRUISM OF ST. ROBERT BELLARMINE AND SUAREZ

EXPOSITION OF THIS DOCTRINE THE INHERENT DIFFICULTIES OF THE CONGRUISM

CHAPTER III THE CONGRUISM OF THE SORBONNE

THE DIFFICULTIES IN THE CONGRUISM OF THE SORBONNE

CHAPTER IV PREDESTINATION ACCORDING TO THE TEACHING OF THE POST-TRIDENTINE AUGUSTINIANS CHAPTER V PREDESTINATION ACCORDING TO THE TEACHING OF THE POST-TRIDENTINE THOMISTS

PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THEY AGREE THE PRINCIPLE OF PREDILECTION THE GRATUITY OF PREDESTINATION POINT ON WHICH THE THOMISTS DIFFER THE CLEAR AND OBSCURE POINTS IN THOMISM

SYNTHESIS

CHAPTER I HOW SHALL WE DEFINE PREDESTINATION?

IS THIS CONCEPTION OF PREDESTINATION THE KIND WHICH SCRIPTURE SPEAKS OF? HOW SHALL WE DEFINE REPROBATION?

CHAPTER II THE CAUSE OF PREDESTINATION CHAPTER III THE MOTIVE FOR REPROBATION CHAPTER IV ON THE CERTAINTY OF PREDESTINATION

THE INFALLIBILITY OF PREDESTINATION SIGNS OF PREDESTINATION IS THERE A GREAT NUMBER OF PREDESTINED?

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION

THE TRANSCENDENCE OF THE MYSTERY OF PREDESTINATION

PART III GRACE AND ITS EFFICACY

CHAPTER I EFFICACIOUS GRACE AND SUFFICIENT GRACE ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE AND THE DECLARATIONS OF THE CHURCH

THE PROBLEM DECLARATIONS OF THE CHURCH

CHAPTER II THE DIVINE MOTION IN GENERAL CHAPTER III WHAT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE PHYSICAL PREMOTION CHAPTER IV WHAT PHYSICAL PREMOTION ACTUALLY IS ACCORDING TO CLASSIC THOMISM CHAPTER V CONFORMITY OF THIS DOCTRINE WITH THE MIND OF ST. THOMAS CHAPTER VI THE DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH PHYSICAL PREMOTION OPERATES CHAPTER VII REASONS FOR AFFIRMING PHYSICAL PREMOTION

GENERAL REASONS FOR ADMITTING PHYSICAL PREMOTION PHYSICAL PREMOTION AND THE DIVINE DECREES AS PREDETERMINING PHYSICAL PREMOTION AND THE

CHAPTER VIII THE DIVINE MOTION AND THE FREEDOM OF OUR SALUTARY ACTS CHAPTER IX THE DIVINE MOTION AND THE PHYSICAL ACT OF SIN

PRINCIPLE THE DIVINE CAUSALITY AND THE PHYSICAL ACT OF SIN OBJECTIONS CONCLUSION

APPENDIX I INFALLIBLY EFFICACIOUS GRACE AND SALUTARY ACTS EASY TO PERFORM

A NEW OPINION THE TRUE THEORY OF GONZALEZ, THE THOMIST

APPENDIX II THE OPINION OF FATHER BILLOT, S.J., ON THE DIVINE MOTION APPENDIX III A REPLY TO SOME WELL-KNOWN OBJECTIONS AGAINST PREMOTION

CATECHISM OF MOTION

APPENDIX IV THE THOMIST ORIGIN OF THE DOCTRINE OF PREDETER- MINING DECREES AND DR. H. SCHWAMM’S RECENT WORK

CRITICISM

PROVIDENCE

CONTENTS PROVIDENCE

Foreword Translator’s Preface

PART I THE EXISTENCE OF GOD AND OF PROVIDENCE

1. God The Prime Mover Of Corporeal And Spiritual Beings

THERE IS MOTION IN THE WORLD, FROM THE LOWEST ORDER OF BEINGS TO THE HIGHEST. ALL MOTION REQUIRES A MOVER EVERY MOTION REQUIRES A SUPREME MOVER IS THE FIRST MOVER OF CORPOREAL AND SPIRITUAL BEINGS NECESSARILY SPIRITUAL? THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUPREME MOVER

2. The Order In The Universe, And Providence

THE FACT: THE ORDER PREVAILING IN THE UNIVERSE A MEANS CANNOT BE DIRECTED TO AN END EXCEPT BY AN INTELLIGENT DESIGNER

3. God, The Supreme Being And Supreme Truth

THE FACT: THE DEGREES OF PERFECTION THE PRINCIPLE: THE MORE AND THE LESS PERFECT PRESUPPOSE PERFECTION ITSELF

4. God The Sovereign Good And The Desire For Happiness

1) THE FACT OF EXPERIENCE: TRUE, SUBSTANTIAL, AND ENDURING HAPPINESS CANNOT BE FOUND IN ANY PASSING GOOD 2) THE PRINCIPLE BY WHICH WE ASCEND TO GOD 3) THE TERM OF THIS ASCENT 4) WHAT DOES NOT COME WITHIN THE EXIGENCIES OF OUR NATURE

5. God, The Ultimate Foundation Of Duty

1) THE ORDERING OF OUR WILL TO MORAL GOOD 2) THE ORDERING OF OUR WILL TO MORAL GOOD PRESUPPOSES A DIVINE INTELLIGENT DESIGNER THE MORAL SANCTION

6. On The Nature Of God

THE PROBLEM THE VARIOUS SOLUTIONS GOD IS THE ETERNALLY SUBSISTING BEING THE DEITY

PART II THE PERFECTIONS OF GOD WHICH HIS PROVIDENCE PRESUPPOSES

7. The Divine Simplicity

THE DIVINE SIMPLICITY AND ITS REFLECTIONS THE PERFECT IMAGE OF GOD’S SIMPLICITY

8. The Infinity Of God

THE A PRIORI PROOF OF THE DIVINE INFINITY THE A POSTERIORI PROOF OF THE DIVINE INFINITY WE ARE MADE FOR THE INFINITE

9. The Immensity Of God

THE GENERAL PRESENCE OF GOD BY HIS IMMENSITY THE SPECIAL PRESENCE OF GOD IN THE JUST THE UNIQUE PRESENCE OF GOD IN THE HUMANITY OF JESUS

10. The Eternity Of God

WHAT IS ETERNITY? ETERNITY AND THE VALUE OF TIME

11. The Divine Incomprehensibility

THE HIGH LIGHTS IN THE DIVINITY THE LIGHT-TRANSCENDING DARKNESS IN GOD

12. The Wisdom Of God

WHAT ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND BY WISDOM? THE DIVINE WISDOM IN ITSELF THE DIVINE WISDOM COMPARED WITH THE HIGHEST HUMAN WISDOM

13. The Will And Holy Love Of God

THE LOVE OF GOD FOR HIMSELF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS LOVE GOD’S LOVE FOR US THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS LOVE THE WILL OF EXPRESSION AND THE WILL OF GOOD PLEASURE IN GOD

PART III PROVIDENCE ACCORDING TO REVELATION

14. The Notion Of Providence 15. The Characteristics Of Providence According To The Old Testament

A UNIVERSAL AND INFALLIBLE PROVIDENCE DIRECTS ALL THINGS TO A GOOD PURPOSE

16. The Hidden Ways Of Providence And The Book Of Job

THE MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LORD’S REPLY THE TRIALS OF THE JUST SERVE A HIGHER PURPOSE

17. Providence According To The Gospel

THE HIGHER GOOD TO WHICH ALL THINGS ARE DIRECTED BY PROVIDENCE THE LIGHT AND SHADE IN THE PROVIDENTIAL PLAN

18. Providence And Prayer

PROVIDENCE, THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF EFFICACY IN PRAYER PRAYER, AN ACT OF WORSHIP PAID TO PROVIDENCE PRAYER CO-OPERATES IN THE DIVINE GOVERNANCE

PART IV SELF-ABANDONMENT TO PROVIDENCE

19. Why And In What Matters We Should Abandon Ourselves To Providence

WHY WE SHOULD ABANDON OURSELVES TO DIVINE PROVIDENCE IN WHAT MATTERS WE SHOULD ABANDON OURSELVES TO DIVINE PROVIDENCE

20. The Manner In Which We Must Abandon Ourselves To Providence

ON THE VARIOUS WAYS OF ABANDONING ONESELF TO PROVIDENCE ACCORDING TO THE NATURE OF THE EVENT THE SPIRIT THAT SHOULD ANIMATE OUR SELF-ABANDONMENT TO PROVIDENCE

21. Providence And The Duty Of The Present Moment

THE DUTY OF THE PRESENT MOMENT AS THE SAINTS UNDERSTOOD IT THE HEART OF JESUS IS A “SOURCE OF GRACES EVER NEW.” THE TEACHING OF SCRIPTURE AND THEOLOGY ON THE DUTY OF THE PRESENT MOMENT

22. The Grace Of The Present Moment And Fidelity In Little Things

THE SPIRITUAL RICHES CONTAINED IN THE PRESENT MOMENT FIDELITY IN LITTLE THINGS

23. The Attitude Of Providence Toward Those Who Abandon Themselves Completely To It

IN WHAT WAY GOD GUIDES THOSE SOULS THAT ABANDON THEMSELVES TO HIM THE SOUL THAT ABANDONS ITSELF TO GOD IS DEFENDED BY HIM AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF ITS SPIRITUAL WELFARE GOD QUICKENS MORE AND MORE THE INTERIOR LIFE OF SOULS THAT ABANDON THEMSELVES TO HIM ACT OF SELF-ABANDONMENT

24. Providence And The Way Of Perfection

IN WHAT CHRISTIAN PERFECTION ESPECIALLY CONSISTS PERFECTION AND THE PRECEPT OF LOVE PERFECTION AND THE LIGHT WHICH THE GIFT OF WISDOM IMPARTS IN PRAYER: THE VISITATION OF THE LORD CONCLUSION: THE GENERAL CALL

PART V PROVIDENCE, JUSTICE AND MERCY

25. Providence And Divine Justice

PROVIDENCE AND JUSTICE IN THE COURSE OF OUR EARTHLY EXISTENCE PROVIDENCE AND JUSTICE AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH GOD’S PROVIDENCE AND JUSTICE IN THE NEXT LIFE

26. Providence And Mercy

PROVIDENCE AND MERCY IN THE COURSE OF OUR PRESENT LIFE PROVIDENCE AND MERCY AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH PROVIDENCE AND MERCY AFTER DEATH

27. Providence And The Grace Of A Happy Death

THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH AND THE ERRORS OPPOSED TO IT CAN WE MERIT THE GRACE OF A HAPPY DEATH? HOW THE GRACE OF A HAPPY DEATH MAY BE OBTAINED THROUGH PRAYER THE MYSTERY OF SALVATION

28. Providence And Charity Toward Our Neighbor

THE PRIMARY OBJECT AND FORMAL MOTIVE OF CHARITY THE SECONDARY OBJECT OF CHARITY THE PRACTICE OF FRATERNAL CHARITY AND THE WATCHFULNESS OF PROVIDENCE

29. Providence And The Communion Of Saints

THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS ACCORDING TO HOLY SCRIPTURE THE RELATION OF THE MEMBERS WITH CHRIST THE MEDIATOR AND WITH GOD THE RELATIONS OF THE MEMBERS WITH ONE ANOTHER

30. The End And Purpose Of The Divine Governance

THE INCOMPLETE INTIMATION ETERNAL LIFE ACCORDING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT THE BEATIFIC VISION AND THE LOVE FOR GOD OF WHICH IT IS THE SOURCE

REALITY

CONTENTS REALITY: A SYNTHESIS OF THOMISTIC THOUGHT

Preface Chapter 1 Philosophical Writings

HERE COME FIRST THE COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE BRIEF ANALYSIS ON INTERPRETATION

LATER ANALYTICS

THE PHYSICA DE COELO ET MUNDO DE ANIMA METAPHYSICA

THE INTRODUCTION ONTOLOGY NATURAL THEOLOGY

COMMENTARIES ON THE ETHICS

THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS THE POLITICA

Chapter 2 Theological Works Chapter 3 The Thomistic Commentators

First Part Metaphysical Synthesis Of Thomism

Chapter 4 Intelligible Being And First Principles Chapter 5 Act And Potency

ARTICLE ONE: POTENCY REALLY DISTINCT FROM ACT ARTICLE TWO: ACT LIMITED BY POTENCY ARTICLE THREE THE IDEA OF BEING METAPHYSICAL IDEA OF GOD CONSEQUENCES OF THIS DISTINCTION ARTICLE FOUR

Second Part Theology and De Deo Uno

Chapter 6 The Nature Of Theological Work

ARTICLE ONE: THE PROPER OBJECT OF THEOLOGY ARTICLE TWO: STEPS IN THEOLOGICAL PROCEDURE ARTICLE THREE: THE EVOLUTION OF DOGMA

Chapter 7 The Proofs Of God’s Existence Chapter 8 Divine Eminence

ARTICLE ONE: THE ESSENTIALLY SUPERNATURAL CHARACTER OF THE BEATIFIC VISION ARTICLE TWO: ANALOGICAL KNOWLEDGE OF GOD ARTICLE THREE: COROLLARIES

Chapter 9 God’s Knowledge

ARTICLE 1: GOD’S KNOWLEDGE IN GENERAL ARTICLE 2: GOD’S KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONDITIONAL FUTURE

Chapter 10 God’s Will And God’s Love

ARTICLE ONE: GOD’S SOVEREIGN FREEDOM OF WILL ARTICLE TWO: THE CAUSALITY OF GOD’S WILL ARTICLE THREE: THE THOMISTIC DILEMMA ARTICLE FOUR: DIFFICULTIES SUMMARY

Chapter 11 Providence And Predestination

ARTICLE ONE: DIVINE PROVIDENCE ARTICLE TWO: PREDESTINATION

Chapter 12 Omnipotence

ARTICLE TWO: DIVINE PRESERVATION ARTICLE THREE: DIVINE MOTION

Third Part The Blessed Trinity

Chapter 13 Augustine And Thomas Chapter 14 The Divine Processions Chapter 15 The Divine Relations Chapter 16 The Divine Persons Chapter 17 The Notional Acts Chapter 18 Equality And Union Chapter 19 The Trinity Naturally Unknowable Chapter 20 Proper Names And Appropriations Chapter 21 The Indwelling Of The Blessed Trinity

Fourth Part Angel and Man

Chapter 22 The Sources Chapter 23 Angelic Nature And Knowledge Chapter 24 The Angelic Will Chapter 25 Angelic Merit And Demerit Chapter 26 The Treatise On Man Chapter 27 The Nature Of The Soul Chapter 28 The Union Of Soul With Body Chapter 29 The Faculties Of The Soul Chapter 30 The Separated Soul Chapter 31 Original Sin

Fifth Part Redemptive Incarnation

Chapter 32 Introduction Chapter 33 The Hypostatic Union Chapter 34 Consequences Of The Hypostatic Union Chapter 35 Freedom And Impeccability Chapter 36 Christ’s Victory And Passion Chapter 37 Mariology

ARTICLE ONE: MARY’S PREDESTINATION ARTICLE TWO: THE DIVINE MATERNITY ARTICLE THREE: MARY’S SANCTITY ARTICLE FOUR: MARY’S UNIVERSAL MEDIATION

Sixth Part The Sacraments of the Church

Chapter 38 The Sacraments In General Chapter 39 Transubstantiation Chapter 40 The Sacrifice Of The Mass Chapter 41 Attrition And Contrition Chapter 42 The Reviviscence Of Merit Chapter 43 The Treatise On The Church Chapter 44 The Soul’s Immutability After Death

Seventh Part Moral Theology and Spirituality

Chapter 45 Man’s Ultimate Purpose And Goal Chapter 46 Human Acts

ARTICLE ONE: PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN ACTS ARTICLE TWO: CONSCIENCE AND PROBABILISM ARTICLE THREE: THE PASSIONS

Chapter 47 Virtues And Vices

ARTICLE ONE: HABITS ARTICLE TWO: CLASSIFICATION OF VIRTUES ARTICLE THREE: THE GIFTS ARTICLE FOUR: THE VICES ARTICLE FIVE: SIN

Chapter 48 Law Chapter 49 A Treatise On Grace

ARTICLE ONE: THE NECESSITY OF GRACE ARTICLE TWO: THE ESSENCE OF GRACE ARTICLE THREE: DIVISION OF GRACE ARTICLE FOUR: GRACE, SUFFICIENT AND EFFICACIOUS ARTICLE FIVE: THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF GRACE ARTICLE SIX: JUSTIFICATION A TREATISE ON GRACE ARTICLE SEVEN: THE MERITS OF THE JUST

Chapter 50 The Theological Virtues

ARTICLE ONE: FAITH ARTICLE TWO: HOPE ARTICLE THREE: CHARITY

Chapter 51 The Moral Virtues

ARTICLE ONE: PRUDENCE ARTICLE TWO: JUSTICE ARTICLE THREE: FORTITUDE

Chapter 52 Christian Perfection Chapter 53 Charismatic Graces Chapter 54 Conclusion

ARTICLE ONE: THOMISM AND ECLECTICISM ARTICLE TWO: THE ASSIMILATIVE POWER OF THOMISM

Eighth Part Developments and Confirmations

Chapter 55 The Twenty-Four Thomistic Theses

ORIGIN OF THE TWENTY-FOUR THESES FORGETTING THE TWENTY-FOUR THESES

Chapter 56 Realism And First Principles

CONTRADICTION AND EXAGGERATED REALISM CONTRADICTION AND NOMINALISM CONTRADICTION AND LIMITED REALISM REALISM AND THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSALITY

Chapter 57 Realism And Pragmatism

I. PRAGMATISM AND ITS VARIATIONS II. THE TWO NOTIONS COMPARED III. PRAGMATIC CONSEQUENCES PRAGMATISM MUST RETURN TO TRADITION DIFFICULTIES

Chapter 58 Ontological Personality

LET US SUMMARIZE

Chapter 59 Efficacious Grace

THE PROBLEM THE DIVINE WILL, ANTECEDENT AND CONSEQUENT THE SUPREME PRINCIPLES CONSEQUENCES THE MYSTERY CONCLUSION

THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE CROSS OF JESUS

CONTENTS THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE CROSS OF JESUS

INTRODUCTION

DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT THE THEOLOGY OF ST. THOMAS AND THE SPIRITUALITY OF ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

VOLUME 1 PART I GOD’S LOVE FOR Us, OUR RETURN OF LOVE, AND THE MYSTERY OF THE CROSS

CHAPTER I GOD’S LOVE FOR US; OUR RETURN OF LOVE

THE BASIS FOR THE GREAT COMMANDMENT REASON AND THE LOVE OF GOD GOD’S LOVE FOR ALL, THE BASIS OF OUR LOVE FOR HIM OUR RETURN OF LOVE

CHAPTER II THE PROBLEM OF PURE LOVE

ARTICLE I STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

EXTREME AND EVIDENTLY ERRONEOUS PHILOSOPHICAL SOLUTIONS CONTRARY HERESIES TO BE AVOIDED

ARTICLE II THE VIEWS OF ST. BERNARD AND RICHARD OF ST. VICTOR

THE DISINTERESTEDNESS OF TRUE LOVE LOVE OF GOD IN HIS GREAT SERVANTS LOVE ALONE THE BOND OF UNION

ARTICLE III ST. THOMAS’ VIEW

DIFFICULTIES OF THE PRECEDING VIEW THE PRINCIPLE OF ST. THOMAS’ SOLUTION SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM CONFIRMATION OF THE THOMISTIC SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF LOVE THE END OF OUR PRIMORDIAL NATURAL INCLINATION NATURE AND CHARITY NATURE AND SIN

ARTICLE IV ST. THOMAS AND NEWTON

CHAPTER III LOVE OF GOD AND THE INDWELLING OF THE BLESSED TRINITY

ARTICLE I THE SPECIAL PRESENCE OF THE BLESSED TRINITY IN THE JUST

GOD’S SPECIAL PRESENCE AS REVEALED IN SCRIPTURE THEOLOGICAL VIEWS ON GOD’S SPECIAL PRESENCE ST. THOMAS’ VIEW

ARTICLE II THE NATURE OF MAN’S QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

THE ROLE OF QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE THE INVISIBLE MISSIONS OF THE DIVINE PERSONS AND THE MYSTICAL LIFE

NOTES EXPERIENCE OR QUASI-EXPERIENCE?

THE QUESTION OF A PURELY NATURAL IMMEDIATE APPREHENSION OF GOD

CHAPTER IV LOVE OF GOD AND THE MYSTERY OF THE OSS

ARTICLE I OUR LORD’S FULLNESS OF GRACE AND ARDENT DESIRE FOR THE CROSS

THE PERSONALITY OF THE WORD MADE FLESH CHRIST’S FULLNESS OF GRACE CHRIST AND HIS CROSS PONDUS CRUCIS ET PONDUS GLORIAE THE MOTIVE OF THE INCARNATION HIS HOUR

ARTICLE II THE PASSION AND PEACE OF CHRIST

THE SEVEN WORDS PEACE IN ANGUISH THE CROSS AND THE BEATIFIC VISION THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST THE UNION OF PEACE AND SORROW THE HARMONY WITHIN OUR DYING LORD THE LESSON OF CALVARY

CHAPTER V THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST

NATURE OF THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST HOW INCORPORATION INTO CHRIST IS EFFECTED THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS

PART II THE LOVE OF GOD AND MORTIFICATION

CHAPTER VI MORTIFICATION OR ACTIVE PURIFICATION

ARTICLE I PRACTICAL NATURALISM ARTICLE II THE NECESSITY OF MORTIFICATION ARTICLE III PRINCIPLES OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS CONCERNING NECESSARY PURIFICATION

CHAPTER VII MORTIFICATION AND THE RESULTS OF ORIGINAL SIN

ARTICLE I THE RESULTS OF ORIGINAL SIN IN THE BAPTIZED ARTICLE II THE NATURE OF THE WOUNDS RESULTING FROM ORIGINAL SIN ARTICLE III THE GRADUAL HEALING OF THE WOUNDS OF ORIGINAL SIN

CHAPTER VIII MORTIFICATION AND THE RESULTS OF PERSONAL SIN

ARTICLE I THE REMISSION OF SIN ARTICLE II MORTIFICATION AND THE REMISSION OF PUNISHMENT DUE TO SIN ARTICLE III DESTRUCTION OF THE REMAINS OF SIN BY MORTIFICATION ARTICLE IV RESISTANCE TO TEMPTATION

CHAPTER IX TWO METHODS OF EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE

ARTICLE I AN EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE WITH REFERENCE TO THE SEVEN CAPITAL SINS ARTICLE II EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE WITH REFERENCE TO THE HIERARCHY OF THE VIRTUES

CHAPTER X MORTIFICATION AND OUR SUPERNATURAL END

ARTICLE I MORTIFICATION AND OUR INORDINATE TENDENCIES ARTICLE II MORTIFICATION OF NATURAL ACTIVITY

CHAPTER XI IMPERFECTION

THE LESSER GOOD—AN EVIL? THE LESSER EVIL CONFORMITY TO THE DIVINE WILL DIFFICULTIES ABOUT THE QUESTION OF IMPERFECTION IMPORTANT THOMISTIC TEXTS THE CRUX OF THE QUESTION THE BASIS FOR THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN IMPERFECTION AND VENIAL SIN

CHAPTER XII THE FLOWER OF MORTIFICATION: CONSECRATED VIRGINITY

THE EVANGELICAL COUNSEL VIRGINITY AND THE OTHER VIRTUES THE CONSECRATION OF VIRGINS VIRGINITY, CONTEMPLATION, AND DIVINE UNION

PART III THE LAWS OF PROGRESS IN LOVE OF GOD

CHAPTER XIII ST. THOMAS’ DOCTRINE ON THE INCREASE OF CHARITY AND MERITORIOUS ACTS

ARTICLE I THE GROWTH OF CHARITY ARTICLE II THE ACTS AND GROWTH OF CHARITY

THE GROWTH OF CHARITY DURING LIFE

CHAPTER XIV CHARITY AND VENIAL SIN CHAPTER XV NORMAL SPIRITUAL PROGRESS AND DAILY COMMUNION

EFFECTS OF FERVENT DAILY COMMUNION HOLY COMMUNION AND ARRESTED PROGRESS CONDITIONS FOR FERVENT COMMUNION CHARITY AND THE GIFT OF WISDOM

VOLUME 2 PART I CROSSES OF THE SENSES

CHAPTER I THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SENSES

ARTICLE I THE NECESSITY FOR PURIFICATION ARTICLE II PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SENSES ARTICLE III A CAUSAL EXPLANATION OF THE STATE OF PURIFICATION

CHAPTER II WHAT IS TO BE DONE DURING THE NIGHT OF THE SENSES CHAPTER III EFFECTS OF THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SENSES

PURIFICATION OF ME SENSUOUS APPETENCY

CHAPTER IV TRIALS ORDINARILY ACCOMPANYING THE NIGHT OF THE SENSES

THE REASON FOR THE TEMPTATIONS OF THIS PERIOD CONCUPISCENCE AND GRACE THE FRUITS OF PATIENCE AND MEEKNESS THE TIME FOR THE NIGHT OF THE SENSES

CHAPTER V THE UNION WITH GOD ORDINARILY FOLLOWING THE NIGHT OF THE SENSES

THE VIEW OF ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS ST. TERESA’S TESTIMONY THE VALUE OF THE HIDDEN LIFE

PART II CROSSES OF THE SOUL PURIFYING GRACES OF THE NIGHT OF THE SOUL

CHAPTER VI THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SOUL AS DESCRIBED BY ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

THE NECESSITY FOR THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SOUL DESCRIPTION OF THE NIGHT OF THE SOUL THE THEOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF PASSIVE PURIFICATION: ITS CAUSES AND END

CHAPTER VII THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF FAITH

TRIALS ACCOMPANYING THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SOUL HUMILITY AND PIETY ON TRIAL IMPERFECTIONS THAT STAND IN THE WAY OF A LIFE OF DEEP FAITH GOD’S PURIFICATION OF OUR FAITH A HIGHER LAW IN THE ORDER OF GRACE

CHAPTER VIII THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF HOPE

GOD’S PART IN THE PURGATION OF HOPE SATAN’S PART IN THE PURGATION OF HOPE PURE HOPE AND TRUE ABANDONMENT TO GOD’S WILL

CHAPTER IX THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF CHARITY

THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF THE PURGATION OF CHARITY PARTICIPATION IN OUR LORD’S VICTIMHOOD

CHAPTER X CHARACTERISTIC SIGNS OF THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SOUL

SUFFERINGS OF A PENAL RATHER THAN OF A PURIFYING NATURE OBSCURE FORMS OF PASSIVE PURIFICATION THREE CHARACTERISTIC SIGNS OF THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SOUL THE ATTENTION OF ALL THE POWERS IS PLUNGED INTO THE ABYSS OF DIVINE LOVE.

PART III THE LIFE OF UNION THROUGH JESUS AND MARY

CHAPTER XI THE ABIDING OF THE BLESSED TRINITY IN PURIFIED SOULS AND TRANSFORMING UNION

THE INDWELLING OF THE BLESSED TRINITY: SOURCE AND END OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE DIVINE UNION AND THE HIGHER LAWS OF THE ORDER OF GRACE TRANSFORMING UNION AS DESCRIBED BY ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS THE LIFE OF UNION AND THE INVISIBLE MISSIONS OF THE DIVINE PERSONS EVIDENCE IN ST. TERESA’S WRITINGS

CHAPTER XII THE PLACE OF THE UNITIVE LIFE AND THE MYSTICAL ORDER

A COMPARISON OF THE VIEWS OF ST. ALPHONSUS WITH THE THOUGHT OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS ARTICLE I THE SPIRITUALITY OF ST. ALPHONSUS: ITS GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS ARTICLE II A COMPARISON OF THE SPIRITUALITY OF ST. ALPHONSUS WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF ST. THOMAS AND THE DOCTRINE OF ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

DIVERSITY OF METHOD COMPARISON OF METHOD: A PATH TO COMPARISON OF DOCTRINE AN EXAMINATION OF SOME DIFFICULTIES

CHAPTER XIII THE UNITY AND SUBLIMITY OF THE APOSTOLIC LIFE: A SYNTHESIS OF CONTEMPLATION AND ACTION

ARTICLE I THE APOSTOLIC LIFE: ITS DIFFICULTY AND SUPERIORITY ARTICLE II THE SPECIAL END OF THE APOSTOLIC LIFE ARTICLE III THE ELEMENTS OF RELIGIOUS LIFE IN APOSTOLIC ORDERS

CHAPTER XIV THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST AND THE LIFE OF UNION

ARTICLE I CHRIST’S PRIESTHOOD IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS ARTICLE II THE PERFECTION OF CHRIST’S PRIESTHOOD ARTICLE III THE FORMAL CAUSE OF CHRIST’S PRIESTHOOD

CHAPTER XV THE KINGSHIP OF CHRIST

ARTICLE I CHRIST’S UNIVERSAL KINGSHIP IN HOLY SCRIPTURE ARTICLE II THE NATURE, BASIS, AND EXCELLENCE OF CHRIST’S KINGSHIP ARTICLE III THE EXERCISE OF CHRIST’S ROYAL POWER

CHAPTER XVI EXEMPLAR FOR OUR FREE WILL: CHRIST’S IMPECCABLE LIBERTY

ARTICLE I THE WORLD’S NOTION OF LIBERTY ARTICLE II CHRIST’S LIBERTY ON EARTH ARTICLE III THE LIBERTY OF THE SAINTS

CHAPTER XVII MARY, MODEL OF THE LIFE OF REPARATION

ARTICLE I MARY MEDIATRIX AND THE GRACE OF FINAL PERSEVERANCE ARTICLE II THE MYSTERY OF MARY’S SORROWS

THE CAUSE OF MARY’S SUFFERINGS THE FRUITFULNESS OF MARY’S SUFFERINGS

CHAPTER XVIII ST. JOSEPH: MODEL OF THE HIDDEN LIFE AND FIRST AMONG THE SAINTS

THE REQUISITE FOR AN EXCEPTIONAL DIVINE MISSION: EXCEPTIONAL SANCTITY ST. JOSEPH’S EXCEPTIONAL MISSION ST. JOSEPH’S SUPERNATURAL VIRTUES AND GIFTS

CHAPTER XIX THE SOUL OF THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

THE EVERLASTING OBLATION OF OUR LORD, THE ETERNAL PRIEST CHRIST’S CONTINUAL OFFERING DURING HIS LIFE ON EARTH COUNCIL OF TRENT IDENTITY OF SUBSTANCE IN CHRIST’S SACRIFICE ON THE CROSS AND IN THE MASS BEYOND THE LAWS OF SPACE AND TIME HOW TO UNITE OURSELVES TO THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS MARY’S OBLATION OUR PERSONAL OFFERING

EPILOGUE THE NARROW PATH OF PERFECTION AND THE FULL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ILLUMINATIVE AND UNITIVE WAYS CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY GHOST CONSECRATION OF THE SOUL TO THE HOLY GHOST THE WAY OF THE CROSS ACCORDING TO ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

1. JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH 2. JESUS IS MADE TO BEAR HIS CROSS 3. JESUS FALLS BENEATH THE WEIGHT OF THE CROSS 4. JESUS MEETS HIS BLESSED MOTHER 5. SIMON OF CYRENE HELPS JESUS TO CARRY HIS CROSS 6. VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS 7. JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME 8. JESUS CONSOLES THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM 9. JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME 10. JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS 11. JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS 12. JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS 13. JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS AND LAID IN THE ARMS OF HIS MOTHER 14. JESUS IS PLACED IN THE SEPULCHER

THE MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY

THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES

1. THE ANNUNCIATION 2. THE VISITATION 3. THE NATIVITY 4. THE PRESENTATION OF JESUS IN THE TEMPLE 5. THE FINDING OF JESUS IN THE TEMPLE

THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

1. THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN 2. THE SCOURGING 3. THE CROWNING OF THORNS 4. THE CARRYING OF THE CROSS 5. THE CRUCIFIXION

THE GLORIOUS MYSTERIES

1. THE RESURRECTION 2. THE ASCENSION 3. PENTECOST 4. THE ASSUMPTION 5. THE CORONATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

THE MOTHER OF THE SAVIOUR

CONTENTS THE MOTHER OF THE SAVIOUR

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE AUTHOR’S PREFACE

PART I The Divine Maternity and the Plenitude of Grace

Chapter 1 THE DIVINE MATERNITY: ITS EMINENT DIGNITY

THE PROBLEM STATED Article 1 THE PREDESTINATION OF MARY

MARY’S PREDESTINATION TO THE DIVINE MATERNITY PRECEDED HER PREDESTINATION TO THE FULLNESS OF GLORY AND GRACE. THE GRATUITOUSNESS OF THE PREDESTINATION OF MARY.

Article 2 OTHER REASONS FOR ASSERTING THE PRE-EMINENCE OF THE DIVINE MATERNITY

THE VALUE OF A DIGNITY OF THE HYPOSTATIC ORDER THE REASON WHY SO MANY GRACES WERE CONFERRED ON MARY THE MOTIVE OF THE CULT OF HYPERDULIA CONSEQUENCES OF THE PRINCIPLES THUS FAR OUTLINED

Chapter 2 MARY’S FIRST PLENITUDE OF GRACE

Article 1 THE DIFFERENT PLENITUDES OF GRACE Article 2 THE PRIVILEGE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

THE DOGMATIC DEFINITION THE TESTIMONY OF THE SCRIPTURES THE TESTIMONY OF TRADITION THEOLOGICAL REASONS FOR ADMITTING THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ST. THOMAS AND THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Article 3 WAS MARY EXEMPT FROM EVERY FAULT, EVEN VENIAL?

NOTE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN IMPERFECTION AND VENIAL SIN

Article 4 THE PERFECTION OF MARY’S FIRST GRACE

MARY’S INITIAL GRACE COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE SAINTS

Article 5 THE CONSEQUENCE OF MARY’S PLENITUDE OF GRACE

WAS MARY’S USE OF REASON AND FREE WILL IN HER MOTHER’S WOMB ONLY TRANSITORY AND INTERRUPTED?

Chapter 3 MARY’S PLENITUDE OF GRACE AT AND AFTER THE INCARNATION

Article 1 MARY’S SPIRITUAL PROGRESS UP TO THE ANNUNCIATION

THE RAPIDITY OF THE GROWTH OF CHARITY IN MARY MARY’S PROGRESS BY MERIT AND PRAYER NOTE WHEN IN OUR LIVES DO THE LESS FERVENT OR REMISS ACTS OF CHARITY OBTAIN THE INCREASE OF CHARITY DUE TO THEM? WHEN DO THE LESS FERVENT ACTS OBTAIN IT?

Article 2 MARY’S WONDERFUL INCREASE IN GRACE AT THE ANNUNCIATION

THE REASON FOR MARY’S INCREASE IN GRACE AND CHARITY AT THE INCARNATION

Article 3 THE VISITATION AND THE “MAGNIFICAT”

1. THE VISITATION 2. GOD HAS DONE GREAT THINGS IN MARY 3. GOD RAISES UP THE HUMBLE AND THROUGH THEM TRIUMPHS OVER THE PRIDE OF THE MIGHTY

Article 4 MARY’S PERPETUAL VIRGINITY

THE VIRGINAL CONCEPTION THE VIRGINAL BIRTH THE PERPETUAL VIRGINITY OF MARY AFTER THE SAVIOUR’S BIRTH

Article 5 THE PRINCIPAL MYSTERIES WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO MARY’S INCREASE IN GRACE AFTER THE INCARNATION

THE NATIVITY THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT THE HIDDEN LIFE OF NAZARETH THE CAUSE OF MARY’S DOLORS ON CALVARY AND THE INTENSITY OF HER LOVE OF GOD AND OF HER SON AND OF SOULS PENTECOST MARY, MODEL OF DEVOTION TO THE EUCHARIST MARY FOUND IN THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS THE POINT OF CONTACT OF THE CULTS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH

Article 6 MARY’S INTELLECTUAL ENDOWMENTS AND HER PRINCIPAL VIRTUES

MARY’S FAITH ENLIGHTENED BY THE GIFTS SPECIAL PRIVILEGES OF HER INTELLECT MARY’S PRINCIPAL VIRTUES

Chapter 4 THE FINAL PLENITUDE OF MARY’S GRACE

Article 1 MARY’S FULLNESS OF GRACE AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH Article 2 THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN Article 3 THE FINAL PLENITUDE OF GRACE IN HEAVEN

MARY’S ESSENTIAL BEATITUDE MARY’S ACCIDENTAL BEATITUDE

PART II Mary, Mother of all Men Her Universal Mediation and Our Interior Life

INTRODUCTION TO PART II Chapter 1 THE MOTHER OF THE REDEEMER AND OF ALL MEN

Article 1 THE MOTHER OF THE SAVIOUR ASSOCIATED WITH HIS REDEMPTIVE WORK

MARY BECAME MOTHER OF THE SAVIOUR BY HER CONSENT HOW WAS THE MOTHER OF THE REDEEMER TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH HIS WORK?

Article 2 THE MOTHER OF ALL MEN

IN WHAT SENSE IS MARY OUR MOTHER? WHEN DID MARY BECOME OUR MOTHER? WHAT IS THE EXTENSION OF MARY’S MATERNITY? MARY, EXEMPLARY CAUSE OF THE ELECT

Chapter 2 MARY’S UNIVERSAL MEDIATION DURING HER EARTHLY EXISTENCE

Article 1 MARY’S UNIVERSAL MEDIATION IN GENERAL

WHAT IS MEANT BY MARY’S UNIVERSAL MEDIATION? THE TESTIMONY OF TRADITION THEOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS

Article 2 MARY’S MERITS FOR US

NATURE AND EXTENT OF HER MERITS THE THREE KINDS OF MERIT MARY’S MERIT DE CONGRUO FOR US WHAT IS THE EXTENSION OF MARY’S MERIT FOR US?

Article 3 THE SUFFERINGS OF MARY AS CO-REDEMPTRIX

HOW DID MARY MAKE SATISFACTION FOR US? THE DEPTH AND FRUITFULNESS OF MARY’S SUFFERINGS AS CO-REDEMPTRIX MARY’S PARTICIPATION AS CO-REDEMPTRIX IN THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST

Chapter 3 MARY’S UNIVERSAL MEDIATION IN HEAVEN

Article 1 MARY’S POWER OF INTERCESSION Article 2 MARY AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF GRACE

NOTE THE MODE OF PRESENCE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN IN SOULS UNITED TO HER VIRTUAL OR DYNAMIC CONTACT AFFECTIVE PRESENCE

Article 3 THE UNIVERSALITY OF MARY’S MEDIATION AND ITS DEFINABILITY

DEFINABILITY OF THE DOCTRINE WHAT IS THE PRECISE MEANING OF THIS UNIVERSALITY? SOME DIFFICULTIES CONCLUSION

Chapter 4 MOTHER OF MERCY

Article 1 GREATNESS AND POWER OF THIS MATERNITY Article 2 PRINCIPAL MANIFESTATIONS OF MERCY

HEALTH OF THE SICK REFUGE OF SINNERS CONSOLER OF THE AFFLICTED REFUGE OF SINNERS HELP OF CHRISTIANS NOTE

Chapter 5 MARY’S UNIVERSAL QUEENSHIP

Article 1 HER QUEENSHIP IN GENERAL Article 2 SPECIAL ASPECTS OF MARY’S QUEENSHIP

QUEEN OF ANGELS QUEEN OF PATRIARCHS QUEEN OF PROPHETS QUEEN OF APOSTLES QUEEN OF MARTYRS QUEEN OF CONFESSORS MARY AND PRIESTS QUEEN OF VIRGINS MARY AND CONSECRATED SOULS

Chapter 6 TRUE DEVOTION TO OUR LADY

Article 1 THE CULT OF HYPERDULIA AND THE BENEFITS IT CONFERS

NATURE AND FOUNDATION OF THE CULT OF MARY WHAT ARE THE FRUITS OF THIS CULT? OBJECTIONS

Article 2 THE ROSARY: A SCHOOL OF CONTEMPLATION

THE THREE GREAT MYSTERIES OF SALVATION THE ROSARY AND CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER THE SPIRIT OF THE ROSARY AS ST. DOMINIC CONCEIVED IT

Article 3 CONSECRATION TO MARY

WHAT DOES THIS CONSECRATION MEAN? WHAT IN OUR GOOD WORKS IS COMMUNICABLE TO OTHERS? FRUITS OF THIS CONSECRATION

Article 4 MYSTICAL UNION WITH MARY

PARTICIPATION IN MARY’S HUMILITY AND FAITH GREAT CONFIDENCE IN GOD THROUGH MARY THE GRACE OF PURE LOVE AND OF TRANSFORMATION OF SOUL GRACE OF INTIMACY WITH MARY

Article 5 THE CONSECRATION OF THE HUMAN RACE TO MARY FOR THE PEACE OF THE WORLD

Chapter 7 THE PREDESTINATION OF ST. JOSEPH AND HIS EMINENT SANCTITY

HIS PRE-EMINENCE OVER THE OTHER SAINTS THE REASON FOR ST. JOSEPH’S PRE-EMINENCE TO WHAT ORDER DOES ST. JOSEPH’S EXCEPTIONAL MISSION BELONG? ST. JOSEPH’S PREDESTINATION IS ONE WITH THE DECREE OF THE INCARNATION THE SPECIAL CHARACTER OF ST. JOSEPH’S MISSION THE VIRTUES AND GIFTS OF ST. JOSEPH ST. JOSEPH’S ROLE IN THE SANCTIFICATION OF SOULS

THE ONE GOD

CONTENTS THE ONE GOD

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE INTRODUCTION

THE IMPORTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE THEOLOGICAL SUMMA OF ST. THOMAS THE METHOD OF ST. THOMAS ESPECIALLY THE STRUCTURE OF THE ARTICLES OF THE THEOLOGICAL SUMMA ON THE VARIOUS JUDGMENTS ABOUT THIS METHOD ON THE ARISTOTELIAN FOUNDATION OF ST. THOMAS’ METHOD ON THE INDUCTIVE SEARCH FOR DEFINITIONS ON THE MIDDLE TERM IN DEMONSTRATION ON THE PERFECT UNION OF ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS IN THE ANGELIC DOCTOR’S METHOD THE DOCTRINE OF ST. THOMAS PROCEEDS FROM THE FULLNESS OF HIS CONTEMPLATION THE RELATION BETWEEN THE STUDY OF THEOLOGY AND THE INTERIOR LIFE THE INDEBTEDNESS OF THE INTERIOR LIFE TO STUDY WHAT THE STUDY OF THEOLOGY OWES TO THE INTERIOR LIFE THE FRUIT OF THIS MUTUAL INFLUENCE

PROLOGUE TO THE THEOLOGICAL SUMMA CHAPTER I QUESTION 1

THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF SACRED DOCTRINE FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER BESIDES PHILOSOPHY ANY FURTHER DOCTRINE IS REQUIRED SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER SACRED DOCTRINE IS A SCIENCE

SOLUTION OF THE OBJECTIONS

THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER SACRED DOCTRINE IS ONE SCIENCE FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER SACRED DOCTRINE IS A PRACTICAL SCIENCE FIFTH ARTICLE WHETHER SACRED DOCTRINE IS NOBLER THAN THE OTHER SCIENCES SIXTH ARTICLE WHETHER SACRED THEOLOGY IS THE SAME AS WISDOM SEVENTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS SCIENCE EIGHTH ARTICLE WHETHER SACRED DOCTRINE IS A MATTER OF ARGUMENT NINTH ARTICLE WHETHER HOLY SCRIPTURE SHOULD USE METAPHORS TENTH ARTICLE WHETHER IN HOLY SCRIPTURE A WORD MAY HAVE SEVERAL SENSES

CHAPTER II QUESTION 2

PROLOGUE

THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IS SELF-EVIDENT

THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT AND THE OPINIONS OF MODERN PHILOSOPHERS THE DECLARATIONS OF THE CHURCH ABOUT ONTOLOGISM

SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER IT CAN BE DEMONSTRATED THAT GOD EXISTS THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER GOD EXISTS

THE UNIVERSALITY AND ORDER OF THESE PROOFS THE ORDER IN WHICH THESE FIVE PROOFS ARE PRESENTED IS THERE A MOST GENERAL PROOF THAT INCLUDES CONFUSEDLY THESE FIVE PROOFS? THE FIRST PROOF: FROM MOTION THE SECOND PROOF: FROM THE NATURE OF EFFICIENT CAUSE THE THIRD PROOF: FROM THE CONTINGENCY OF THINGS IN THE WORLD THE FOURTH PROOF: FROM THE GRADES OF PERFECTION IN BEINGS THE FIFTH PROOF: FROM THE ORDER OR THE GOVERNANCE IN THE WORLD THE ONE END TO WHICH THESE FIVE PROOFS CONVERGE

CHAPTER III QUESTION 3

INTRODUCTION ON GOD’S NATURE AND HIS ATTRIBUTES IN GENERAL

WHAT FORMALLY CONSTITUTES GOD’S NATURE ACCORDING TO OUR CONCEPTION OF IT THE VARIOUS OPINIONS AS TO WHAT CONSTITUTES THE DIVINE NATURE THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES IN GENERAL HOW THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTE IS DEFINED HOW THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES ARE CLASSIFIED HOW THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES ARE DISTINCT FROM ONE ANOTHER AND FROM THE DIVINE ESSENCE THE SIMPLICITY OF GOD

PROLOGUE FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS A BODY SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS COMPOSED OF MATTER AND FORM THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS THE SAME AS HIS ESSENCE OR NATURE FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER ESSENCE AND EXISTENCE ARE THE SAME IN GOD

CONFIRMATION OF THE THESIS FROM THE SOLUTION OF THE OBJECTIONS

FIFTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS CONTAINED IN A GENUS SIXTH ARTICLE WHETHER IN GOD THERE ARE ANY ACCIDENTS SEVENTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS ALTOGETHER SIMPLE EIGHTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD ENTERS INTO THE COMPOSITION OF OTHER THINGS

1. THE FORMS OF PANTHEISM KNOWN TO ST. THOMAS 2. WHERE AND HOW ST. THOMAS REFUTED THE ABOVE-MENTIONED TYPES OF PANTHEISM 3. HOW MODERN PANTHEISM CAN BE REFUTED BY INVOKING THE PRINCIPLES FORMULATED BY ST. THOMAS

CHAPTER IV QUESTION 4

THE PERFECTION OF GOD FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER COD IS PERFECT SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER THE PERFECTIONS OF ALL THINGS ARE IN GOD THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER ANY CREATURE CAN BE LIRE COD

CHAPTER V QUESTION 5

OF GOODNESS IN GENERAL FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER GOODNESS DIFFERS REALLY FROM BEING SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER GOODNESS IS PRIOR IN IDEA TO BEING THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER EVERY BEING IS GOOD FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOODNESS HAS THE ASPECT OF A FINAL CAUSE FIFTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE ESSENCE OF GOODNESS CONSISTS IN MODE, SPECIES, AND ORDER SIXTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOODNESS IS RIGHTLY DIVIDED INTO THE VIRTUOUS, THE USEFUL, AND THE PLEASANT

CHAPTER VI QUESTION 6

THE GOODNESS OF GOD FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS GOOD SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS THE SUPREME GOOD THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER TO BE ESSENTIALLY GOOD BELONGS TO GOD ALONE FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER ALL THINGS ARE GOOD BY THE DIVINE GOODNESS

CHAPTER VII QUESTION 7

THE INFINITY OF GOD FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS INFINITE SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER ANYTHING BUT GOD CAN BE ESSENTIALLY INFINITE THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER AN ACTUALLY INFINITE MAGNITUDE CAN EXIST FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER AN INFINITE MULTITUDE CAN EXIST

RECAPITULATION

CHAPTER VIII QUESTION 8

THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IN THINGS FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS IN ALL THINGS

OBJECTIONS OF SCOTUS AND THE SCOTISTS

SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS EVERYWHERE THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS EVERYWHERE BY ESSENCE, PRESENCE, AND POWER FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER TO BE EVERYWHERE BELONGS TO GOD ALONE

CHAPTER IX QUESTION 9

THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS ALTOGETHER IMMUTABLE SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER TO BE IMMUTABLE BELONGS TO GOD ALONE

CHAPTER X QUESTION 10

THE ETERNITY OF GOD FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER THIS IS A GOOD DEFINITION OF ETERNITY: “THE SIMULTANEOUSLY-WHOLE AND PERFECT POSSESSION OF INTERMINABLE LIFE” SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS ETERNAL THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER TO BE ETERNAL BELONGS TO GOD ALONE FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER ETERNITY DIFFERS FROM TIME FIFTH ARTICLE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AEVITERNITY AND TIME SIXTH ARTICLE WHETHER THERE IS ONLY ONE AEVITERNITY

CHAPTER XI QUESTION 11

THE UNITY OF GOD FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER ONE ADDS ANYTHING TO BEING SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER ONE AND MANY ARE OPPOSED TO EACH OTHER THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS ONE FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS SUPREMELY ONE

CHAPTER XII QUESTION 12

THE KNOWABILITY OF GOD FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER ANY CREATED INTELLECT CAN SEE THE ESSENCE OF GOD

WHAT IS DEFINED TO BE OF FAITH ABOUT THE BEATIFIC VISION CONDEMNED ERRORS THE TESTIMONY OF SACRED SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION CONCERNING THE BEATIFIC VISION THE BEATIFIC VISION AND THE VIEWS THE VARIOUS OPINIONS OF THE THEOLOGIANS THE MORE COMMON OPINION AMONG THE THOMISTS BRIEF SUMMARY OF THIS REPLY

SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER THE ESSENCE OF GOD IS SEEN BY THE CREATED INTELLECT THROUGH AN IMAGE

SOLUTION OF OBJECTIONS

THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER THE ESSENCE OF GOD CAN BE SEEN WITH BODILY EYES FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER ANY CREATED INTELLECT BY ITS NATURAL POWERS CAN SEE THE DIVINE ESSENCE

THE ADEQUATE OBJECT OF OUR INTELLECT OBJECTIONS OF SCOTUS

FIFTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE CREATED INTELLECT NEEDS ANY CREATED LIGHT IN ORDER TO SEE THE ESSENCE OF GOD

THE VARIOUS OPINIONS OF THEOLOGIANS BEFORE AND AFTER THE COUNCIL OF VIENNE HOW ST. THOMAS PROVES THE NECESSITY OF THE LIGHT OF GLORY SOLUTION OF OBJECTIONS SECOND SERIES OF OBJECTIONS, TO SHOW THAT THE LIGHT OF GLORY IS SOMETHING REPUGNANT

SIXTH ARTICLE WHETHER, OF THOSE WHO SEE THE ESSENCE OF GOD, ONE SEES MORE PERFECTLY THAN ANOTHER SEVENTH ARTICLE WHETHER THOSE WHO SEE THE ESSENCE OF GOD COMPREHEND HIM EIGHTH ARTICLE WHETHER THOSE WHO SEE THE ESSENCE OF GOD SEE ALL IN GOD NINTH ARTICLE WHETHER WHAT IS SEEN IN GOD, BY THOSE WHO SEE THE DIVINE ESSENCE, IS SEEN THROUGH ANY SIMILITUDE TENTH ARTICLE WHETHER THOSE WHO SEE THE ESSENCE OF GOD SEE ALL THEY SEE IN IT AT THE SAME TIME ELEVENTH ARTICLE WHETHER ANYONE IN THIS LIFE CAN SEE THE ESSENCE OF GOD TWELFTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD CAN BE KNOWN IN THIS LIFE BY NATURAL REASON THIRTEENTH ARTICLE WHETHER BY GRACE A HIGHER KNOWLEDGE OF GOD CAN BE OBTAINED THAN BY NATURAL REASON

CHAPTER XIII QUESTION 13

THE NAMES OF GOD FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER A NAME CAN BE GIVEN TO GOD SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER ANY NAME CAN BE APPLIED TO GOD SUBSTANTIALLY THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER ANY NAME CAN DE APPLIED TO GOD IN ITS LITERAL SENSE FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER NAMES APPLIED TO GOD ARE SYNONYMOUS FIFTH ARTICLE WHETHER WHAT IS SAID OF GOD AND OF CREATURES IS UNIVOCALLY PREDICATED OF THEM

SOLUTION OF OBJECTIONS

SIXTH ARTICLE WHETHER NAMES PREDICATED OF GOD ARE PREDICATED PRIMARILY OF CREATURES SEVENTH ARTICLE WHETHER NAMES WHICH IMPLY RELATION TO CREATURES ARE APPLIED TO GOD TEMPORALLY

THE DOCTRINE OF ST. THOMAS COMPARED WITH THE TEACHINGS OF SCOTUS AND SUAREZ THE EMINENCE OF THE DEITY

EIGHTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE NAME “GOD” IS A NAME OF THE NATURE NINTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE NAME ‘‘GOD’ IS COMMUNICABLE TENTH ARTICLE WHETHER THIS NAME “GOD” IS PREDICATED UNIVOCALLY OF THE TRUE GOD, OF IDOLS, AND OF THE JUST ELEVENTH ARTICLE WHETHER THIS NAME “HE WHO IS” IS THE MOST PROPER NAME OF GOD TWELFTH ARTICLE WHETHER AFFIRMATIVE PROPOSITIONS CAN BE FORMED ABOUT GOD

CHAPTER XIV QUESTION 14

GOD’S KNOWLEDGE FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER THERE IS KNOWLEDGE IN GOD

SOLUTION OF OBJECTIONS

SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER GOD UNDERSTANDS HIMSELF THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER GOD COMPREHENDS HIMSELF FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE ACT OF GOD’S INTELLECT IS HIS SUBSTANCE FIFTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD KNOWS THINGS OTHER THAN HIMSELF

SOLUTION OF OBJECTIONS

SIXTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD KNOWS THINGS OTHER THAN HIMSELF BY PROPER KNOWLEDGE SEVENTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IS DISCURSIVE EIGHTH ARTICLE WHETHER GODS KNOWLEDGE IS THE CAUSE OF THINGS

SOLUTION OF OBJECTIONS

NINTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD HAS KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS THAT ARE NOT TENTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD KNOWS EVIL THINGS ELEVENTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD KNOWS SINGULAR THINGS TWELFTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD CAN KNOW INFINITE THINGS THIRTEENTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD’S KNOWLEDGE IS OF FUTURE THINGS

I. MOLINIST INTERPRETATION II. HOW FUTURE THINGS ARE PRESENT IN ETERNITY III. THOMIST SOLUTION OF THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE CONCLUSION OF THIS ARTICLE IV. THE “SCIENTIA MEDIA” CRITICISM OF THE THEORY OF THE SCIENTIA MEDIA ON THE VARIOUS WAYS OF EXPLAINING THE SCIENTIA MEDIA RECAPITULATION WHAT MUST BE SAID OF THE OTHER OPINIONS CONCERNING THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF CONDITIONED FUTURES

FOURTEENTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD KNOWS ENUNCIABLE THINGS FIFTEENTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD’S KNOWLEDGE IS INVARIABLE SIXTEENTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD HAS A SPECULATIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS

CHAPTER XV QUESTION 15

OF IDEAS FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER THERE ARE IDEAS SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER THERE ARE MANY IDEAS IN GOD THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER THERE ARE IDEAS OF ALL THINGS THAT GOD KNOWS

CHAPTER XVI QUESTION 16

OF TRUTH

CHAPTER XVII QUESTION 17

OF FALSITY

CHAPTER XVIII QUESTION 18

THE LIFE OF GOD

CHAPTER XIX QUESTION 19

THE WILL OF GOD FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER THERE IS WILL IN GOD SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER GOD WILLS THINGS APART FROM HIMSELF THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER WHATEVER GOD WILLS, HE WILLS NECESSARILY

THE SOLUTION OF THE OBJECTIONS CONFIRMS THIS PROOF

FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE WILL OF GOD IS THE CAUSE OF THINGS FIFTH ARTICLE WHETHER ANY CAUSE CAN BE ASSIGNED TO THE DIVINE WILL SIXTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE WILL OF GOD IS ALWAYS FULFILLED

THE ANTECEDENT WILL OF GOD TEACHING OF ST. THOMAS ON THE UNIVERSAL WILL TO SAVE I. WHAT IS OF FAITH IN WHAT SENSE CHRIST DIED FOR ALL CRITICISM OF MOLINA’S OPINION IV. SOLUTION OF OBJECTIONS

SEVENTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE WILL OF GOD IS CHANGEABLE EIGHTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE WILL OF GOD IMPOSES NECESSITY ON THINGS WILLED

SOLUTION OF THE OBJECTIONS IN THIS ARTICLE SOLUTION OF THE OBJECTIONS OF OPPONENTS EFFICACIOUS GRACE IN ITS RELATION TO HUMAN LIBERTY SOLUTION OF OBJECTIONS WHETHER SUFFICIENT GRACE IS AN INSUFFICIENT HELP SOLUTION OF OBJECTIONS WHETHER THE INTRINSIC EFFICACY OF THE DIVINE DECREES AND GRACE BEARS ANY RESEMBLANCE TO CALVINISM SOLUTION OF OBJECTIONS

NINTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD WILLS EVILS TENTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD HAS FREE WILL ELEVENTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE WILL OF EXPRESSION IS TO BE DISTINGUISHED IN GOD TWELFTH ARTICLE WHETHER EWE EXPRESSIONS OF WILL ARE RIGHTLY ASSIGNED TO THE DIVINE WILL APPENDIX ON GOD’S PERSONALITY IN OPPOSITION TO PANTHEISM THE SANCTITY OF GOD

CHAPTER XX QUESTION 20

GOD’S LOVE FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER LOVE EXISTS IN GOD SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER GOD LOVES ALL THINGS THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER GOD LOVES ALL THINGS EQUALLY FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD ALWAYS LOVES THE BETTER THINGS MORE

CHAPTER XXI QUESTION 21

THE JUSTICE AND MERCY OF GOD FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER THERE IS JUSTICE IN GOD SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER THE JUSTICE OF GOD IS TRUTH COROLLARIES THE PRINCIPAL ACTS OF DIVINE JUSTICE THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER MERCY CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO GOD FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER IN EVERY WORK OF GOD THERE ARE MERCY AND JUSTICE

CHAPTER XXII QUESTION 22

THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD CONFIRMATION OF THIS CONCLUSION BY THE SOLUTION OF THE DIFFICULTIES PRESENTED IN THIS ARTICLE SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER EVERYTHING IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD

THE SOLUTION OF THE DIFFICULTIES CONFIRMS THIS PROOF PROVIDENCE AND CHANCE PROVIDENCE AND EVIL OTHER SPECIAL DIFFICULTIES

THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER GOD HAS IMMEDIATE PROVIDENCE OVER EVERYTHING

THIS ANSWER CONFIRMED BY THE SOLUTION OF THE OBJECTIONS

FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER PROVIDENCE IMPOSES ANY NECESSITY ON THINGS FORESEEN

THIS CONCLUSION CONFIRMED BY THE SOLUTION OF THE DIFFICULTIES

CHAPTER XXIII QUESTION 23

PREDESTINATION TESTIMONY OF HOLY SCRIPTURE THE TEACHING OF THE CHURCH AGAINST MUTUALLY THE DECLARATION OF THE CHURCH AGAINST PELAGIANISM AND SEMIPELAGIANISM

A. AGAINST PELAGIANISM AND SEMIPELAGIANISM B. AGAINST PREDESTINARIANISM, CALVINISM, AND JANSENISM

THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE THEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER MEN ARE PREDESTINED BY GOD SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER PREDESTINATION PLACES ANYTHING IN THE PREDESTINED THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER GOD REPROBATES ANY MAN FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE PREDESTINED ARE ELECTED BY GOD FIFTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF MERITS IS THE CAUSE OF PREDESTINATION

THE MOTIVE FOR NEGATIVE REPROBATION PREDESTINATION AS A MYSTERY OF MERCY

SIXTH ARTICLE WHETHER PREDESTINATION IS CERTAIN

THE SIGNS OF PREDESTINATION

SEVENTH ARTICLE WHETHER THE NUMBER OF THE PREDESTINED IS CERTAIN EIGHTH ARTICLE WHETHER PREDESTINATION CAN BE FURTHERED BY THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS

CHAPTER XXIV QUESTION 24

THE BOOK OF LIFE FIRST ARTICLE SECOND AND THIRD ARTICLES

CHAPTER XXV QUESTION 25

THE POWER OF GOD FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER THERE IS POWER IN GOD SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER THE POWER OF GOD IS INFINITE THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS OMNIPOTENT FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD CAN MAKE THE PAST NOT TO HAVE BEEN FIFTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD CAN DO WHAT HE DOES NOT SIXTH ARTICLE WHETHER GOD CAN DO BETTER THINGS THAN WHAT HE DOES

CHAPTER XXVI QUESTION 26

OF THE DIVINE BEATITUDE FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER BEATITUDE BELONGS TO GOD SECOND ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS CALLED BLESSED IN RESPECT OF HIS INTELLECT THIRD ARTICLE WHETHER GOD IS THE BEATITUDE OF EACH OF THE BLESSED FOURTH ARTICLE WHETHER ALL OTHER BEATITUDE IS INCLUDED IN THE BEATITUDE OF GOD

THE THREE AGES OF THE INTERIOR LIFE

CONTENTS THE THREE AGES OF THE INTERIOR LIFE: PRELUDE OF ETERNAL LIFE

Preface Translator’s Preface Foreword Introduction

I. THE ONE THING NECESSARY II. THE QUESTION OF THE ONE THING NECESSARY AT THE PRESENT TIME III. THE AIM OF THIS WORK IV. THE OBJECT OF ASCETICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY V. THE METHOD OF ASCETICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY VI. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ASCETICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY AND THEIR RELATIONS TO EACH OTHER VII. DIVISION OF THIS WORK

PART 1 The Sources of the Interior Life and Its End

Prologue Chapter 1 The Life of Grace, Eternal life begun

ETERNAL LIFE PROMISED BY THE SAVIOR TO MEN OF GOOD WILL THE SEED OF ETERNAL LIFE IN US AN IMPORTANT CONSEQUENCE

Chapter 2 The Interior Life and Intimate Conversation with God

CONVERSATION WITH ONESELF INTERIOR CONVERSATION WITH GOD

Chapter 3 The Spiritual Organism

ARTICLE I—THE NATURAL LIFE AND THE SUPERNATURAL LIFE OF THE SOUL ARTICLE II—THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES ARTICLE III—THE MORAL VIRTUES THE ACQUIRED MORAL VIRTUES THE INFUSED MORAL VIRTUES RELATIONS BETWEEN THE INFUSED MORAL VIRTUES AND THE ACQUIRED MORAL VIRTUES ARTICLE IV—THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST THE TEACHING OF SCRIPTURE TRADITION THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST ACCORDING TO ST. THOMAS APPENDIX—THE SUPERHUMAN MODE OF THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST IN WHAT SENSE CAN THE GIFTS HAVE TWO MODES, THAT ON EARTH AND THAT OF HEAVEN? WHETHER THE SUPERHUMAN MODE OF THE GIFTS CAN BE LATENT ARE THERE DEGREES IN DETACHMENT FROM CREATURES? ARE THE PASSIVE PURIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO ELIMINATE MORAL DEFECTS? ARTICLE V—ACTUAL GRACE AND ITS DIVERS FORMS THE NECESSITY OF ACTUAL GRACE THE DIFFERENT ACTUAL GRACES FIDELITY TO GRACE

Chapter 4 The Blessed Trinity Present in Us, Uncreated Source of our Interior Life

THE TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURE THE TESTIMONY OF TRADITION THE THEOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF THIS MYSTERY SPIRITUAL CONSEQUENCES OF THIS DOCTRINE OUR DUTIES TOWARD THE DIVINE GUEST

Chapter 5 The Influence of Christ the Redeemer on His Mystical Body

HOW THE SAVIOR COMMUNICATES TO US THE GRACES WHICH HE FORMERLY MERITED FOR US THE SANCTIFYING INFLUENCE OF THE SAVIOR THROUGH THE EUCHARIST PROGRESSIVE INCORPORATION IN CHRIST AND SANCTITY

Chapter 6 The Influence of Mary Mediatrix

THE MEANING OF UNIVERSAL MEDIATION MARY MEDIATRIX BY HER COOPERATION IN THE SACRIFICE OF THE CROSS MARY OBTAINS AND DISTRIBUTES ALL GRACES

Chapter 7 The Growth of the Life of Grace by Merit, Prayer and the Sacraments

WHY THE LIFE OF GRACE AND CHARITY SHOULD GROW IN US UNTIL DEATH THE INCREASE OF CHARITY BY OUR MERITS THE INCREASE OF THE LIFE OF GRACE THROUGH PRAYER THE INCREASE OF THE LIFE OF GRACE THROUGH THE SACRAMENTS

Chapter 8 The True Nature of Christian Perfection

ERRONEOUS OR INCOMPLETE IDEAS OF PERFECTION THE ESSENCE OF PERFECTION ACCORDING TO ST. PAUL’S INTERPRETATION OF THE GOSPEL SOME EXACT THEOLOGICAL STATEMENTS ON THE NATURE OF PERFECTION THE SUPERIORITY OF CHARITY TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IN THIS LIFE THE LOVE OF CHARITY CANNOT BE ABSOLUTELY CONTINUAL ON EARTH AS IT WILL BE IN HEAVEN

Chapter 9 The Grandeur of Christian Perfection and the Beatitudes

THE BEATITUDES OF THE DELIVERANCE FROM SIN THE BEATITUDES OF THE ACTIVE LIFE OF THE CHRISTIAN THE BEATITUDES OF CONTEMPLATION AND UNION WITH GOD

Chapter 10 Perfection and Heroic Virtue

DOES PERFECTION NECESSARILY REQUIRE GREAT CHARITY? DOES PERFECTION REQUIRE THE HEROIC PRACTICE OF THE VIRTUES?

Chapter 11 Full Christian Perfection and the Passive Purifications

ACTS OF THE OTHER VIRTUES REQUIRED FOR PERFECTION THE PURIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THE FULL PERFECTION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE FULL CHRISTIAN PERFECTION AND CONTEMPLATION

Chapter 12 Perfection and the Precept of the Love of God

IS THE FIRST PRECEPT WITHOUT LIMIT? THE LOVE OF GOD DOES NOT CONSIST IN A GOLDEN MEAN THE DUTY OF ADVANCING ON THE WAY TO ETERNITY

Chapter 13 Perfection and the Evangelical Counsels

THE THREE EVANGELICAL COUNSELS AND THE WOUNDS OF THE SOUL THE THREE EVANGELICAL COUNSELS AND THE RESTORATION OF ORIGINAL HARMONY

Chapter 14 The Special Obligation of the Priest and the Religious to Tend to Perfection

THE NATURE OF THIS SPECIAL OBLIGATION FOR RELIGIOUS THE SPECIAL OBLIGATION OF THE PRIEST TO TEND TO PERFECTION THE IDEAL OF EPISCOPAL PERFECTION ACCORDING TO ST. ISIDORE

Chapter 15 The Three Ages of the Spiritual life According to the Fathers and the Great Spiritual Writers

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM THE TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURE THE TESTIMONY OF TRADITION THE THREE AGES OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE AND THOSE OF THE CORPOREAL LIFE

Chapter 16 Spiritual Reading of Scripture, of the Works and Lives of the Saints

HOLY SCRIPTURE AND THE LIFE OF THE SOUL THE SPIRITUAL WORKS OF THE SAINTS THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS DISPOSITIONS FOR PROFITABLE SPIRITUAL READING

Chapter 17 Spiritual Direction

THE NECESSITY OF DIRECTION THE DIRECTION OF BEGINNERS THE DIRECTION OF PROFICIENTS AND THE PERFECT THE QUALITIES OF THE DIRECTOR AND THE DUTIES OF THE ONE BEING DIRECTED

PART 2 The Purification of the Soul in Beginners

Chapter 18 The Spiritual Age of Beginners

SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE LOVE OF GOD IN ITS EARLY STAGES THE GENEROSITY REQUIRED IN BEGINNERS

Chapter 19 Practical Naturalism and Mortification According to the Gospel

PRACTICAL NATURALISM: OF ACTION AND OF INACTION MORTIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL

Chapter 20 Mortification According to St. Paul and the Reasons for Its Necessity

THE CONSEQUENCES OF ORIGINAL SIN THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR PERSONAL SINS THE INFINITE ELEVATION OF OUR SUPERNATURAL END DEMANDS A SPECIAL MORTIFICATION OR ABNEGATION THE NECCESSITY OF IMITATING JESUS CRUCIFIED

Chapter 21 Sins to be Avoided Their Roots and Their Consequences

THE ROOTS OF THE CAPITAL SINS THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE SEVEN CAPITAL SINS THE EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE SINS OF IGNORANCE, FRAILTY, AND MALICE SINS OF IGNORANCE SINS OF FRAILTY THE SIN OF MALICE

Chapter 22 The Predominant Fault

DEFINITION OF THE PREDOMINANT FAULT HOW TO RECOGNIZE THE PREDOMINANT FAULT HOW TO COMBAT THE PREDOMINANT FAULT NOTE

Chapter 23 Passions to be Regulated

THE PASSIONS FROM THE PSYCHOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW PASSION FROM THE MORAL POINT OF VIEW THE PASSIONS FROM THE ASCETICAL POINT OF VIEW

Chapter 24 The Active Purification of the Senses or of the Sensible Appetites

THE PRINCIPLES TO BE APPLIED THE MORTIFICATION OF SENSUALITY THE MORTIFICATION OF THE IRASCIBLE APPETITE

Chapter 25 The Active Purification of the Imagination and the Memory

THE ACTIVE PURIFICATION OF THE IMAGINATION THE ACTIVE PURIFICATION OF THE MEMORY

Chapter 26 The Active Purification of the Intellect

THE NECESSITY OF THIS PURIFICATION: THE DEFECTS OF OUR INTELLECT THE PRINCIPLE OF THE ACTIVE PURIFICATION OF THE INTELLECT

Chapter 27 The Active Purification of the Will

THE PRINCIPAL DEFECT OF THE WILL: SELF-LOVE THE PURIFICATION OF THE WILL BY PROGRESS IN THE LOVE OF GOD THE SPIRIT OF DETACHMENT

Chapter 28 The Healing of Pride

THE TRUE NATURE OF PRIDE THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF PRIDE THE DEFECTS BORN OF PRIDE THE REMEDY FOR PRIDE

Chapter 29 The Healing of Spiritual Sloth, or Acedia

THE NATURE OF SPIRITUAL SLOTH, OR ACEDIA THE GRAVITY OF SPIRITUAL SLOTH AND ITS RESULTS THE CURE FOR SPIRITUAL SLOTH

Chapter 30 Sacramental Confession

PREPARATION FOR CONFESSION THE CONFESSION ITSELF THE FRUITS OF CONFESSION

Chapter 31 Assistance at Mass, the Source of Sanctification

THE OBLATION EVER LIVING IN THE HEART OF CHRIST THE EFFECTS OF THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS AND OUR INTERIOR DISPOSITIONS HOW TO UNITE OURSELVES TO THE EUCHARISTIC SACRIFICE

Chapter 32 Holy Communion

THE EUCHARIST, THE LIVING BREAD COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN CONDITIONS OF A GOOD COMMUNION THE CONDITIONS OF A FERVENT COMMUNION EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE: COMMUNIONS WITHOUT THANKSGIVING

Chapter 33 The Prayer of Petition

THE NECESSITY OF A STRONG BELIEF IN THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER THE SOURCE OF THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER THE PARTICULAR PETITIONS WE SHOULD MAKE

Chapter 34 Liturgical Prayer

DEFORMED PSALMODY CONTEMPLATIVE CHANT

Chapter 35 The Mental Prayer of Beginners Its Progressive Simplification

THE NATURE OF MENTAL PRAYER; OUR ATTITUDE TOWARD METHODS THE ESSENTIAL ACTS OF PRAYER THE PRAYER OF SIMPLICITY

Chapter 36 How to Attain to the Life of Prayer and Persevere in It

HOW TO ATTAIN TO THIS LIFE HOW TO PERSEVERE IN THE LIFE OF PRAYER

Chapter 37 Retarded Souls

THE NEGLECT OF LITTLE THINGS THE REFUSAL OF SACRIFICES ASKED THE TENDENCY TO DERISION THE UNHAPPY RESULTS OF THIS STATE THE INCLINATION TO EGOISM THAT REMAINS IN US HOW TO BRING ABOUT THE PREDOMINANCE OF THE OTHER INCLINATION, WHICH IS IN THE IMAGE OF GOD

PART 3 The Illuminative Way of Proficients

Chapter 1 The Object of the Third Part and the language of Spiritual Writers Compared with That of Theologians

THE LANGUAGE OF SPIRITUAL WRITERS COMPARED WITH THAT OF THEOLOGIANS THE QUESTION RAISED BY THE LANGUAGE OF THE MYSTICS THE THEOLOGICAL BASES OF THE TERMINOLOGY OF SPIRITUAL WRITERS THE PRINCIPAL TERMS OF THE LANGUAGE OF SPIRITUAL WRITERS MYSTICAL HYPERBOLE COMPARISON OF THE LANGUAGE OF SPIRITUAL WRITERS AND THAT OF THEOLOGIANS WHICH OF THESE TWO TERMINOLOGIES IS THE LOFTIER?

Chapter 2 The Entrance into the Illuminative Way

THE FACT OF THIS SECOND CONVERSION IN THE LIVES OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD THE NECESSITY OF THE SECOND CONVERSION

Chapter 3 The Second Conversion According to Several Spiritual Writers

THE SECOND CONVERSION IN The Dialogue OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA THE SECOND CONVERSION ACCORDING TO BLESSED HENRY SUSO AND TAULER

Chapter 4 The Passive Purification of the Senses and the Entrance into the Illuminative Way

THE NECESSITY OF THIS PURIFICATION HOW THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SENSES IS PRODUCED THE CAUSE OF THIS STATE NOTE

Chapter 5 Conduct to be Observed in the Night of the Senses

FOUR RULES OF DIRECTION RELATIVE TO THIS STATE TRIALS WHICH ORDINARILY ACCOMPANY THE NIGHT OF THE SENSES THE EFFECTS OF THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SENSES

Chapter 6 The Spiritual Age of Proficients Principal Characteristics

THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IN PROFICIENTS THE LOVE OF GOD AND OF SOULS IN PROFICIENTS

Chapter 7 The Spiritual Edifice in Proficients Chapter 8 Prudence and the Interior Life

DEFECTS TO BE AVOIDED ACQUIRED PRUDENCE AND SELF-CONTROL INFUSED PRUDENCE HOLY DISCRETION AND THE GIFT OF COUNSEL

Chapter 9 The Different Forms of Justice and the Education of the Will

COMMUTATIVE AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE IN RELATION TO THE INTERIOR LIFE LEGAL JUSTICE, EQUITY, AND THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER JUSTICE AND CHARITY THE VIRTUES CONNECTED WITH JUSTICE IN CHRISTIAN LIFE

Chapter 10 Patience and Meekness

PATIENCE AND LONGANIMITY, TWIN COLUMNS OF THE INTERIOR LIFE SUPERNATURAL MEEKNESS AND ITS FRUITS

Chapter 11 The Value of Chastity and Its Spiritual Fruitfulness

THE MOTIVE THAT SHOULD INSPIRE CHASTITY THE SPIRITUAL FRUITFULNESS OF CHASTITY

Chapter 12 The Humility of Proficients

HUMILITY TOWARD GOD HUMILITY TOWARD OUR NEIGHBOR

Chapter 13 The Humility of the Word Made Flesh and What Ours Should Be

THE HUMILITY AND MAGNANIMITY OF CHRIST THE UNION OF HUMILITY AND CHRISTIAN DIGNITY APPENDIX: THE GLORY OF THE CROSS

Chapter 14 The Spirit of Poverty

THE VALUE OF VOLUNTARY POVERTY THE FRUITFULNESS OF VOLUNTARY POVERTY THE MERIT OF THE VOWS

Chapter 15 The Grandeur of Obedience

THE TYPE OF SERVITUDE FROM WHICH OBEDIENCE DELIVERS US THE FRUITS OF OBEDIENCE

Chapter 16 Simplicity and Uprightness

DEFECTS OPPOSED TO SIMPLICITY VERACITY AND THE INTERIOR LIFE SUPERIOR SIMPLICITY, THE IMAGE OF THAT OF GOD

Chapter 17 The Spirit of Faith and Its Progress

THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT OF FAITH THE GROWTH OF INFUSED FAITH IN US THE EXCELLENCE AND THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF FAITH A PRACTICAL MANNER OF LIVING BY THE SPIRIT OF FAITH

Chapter 18 Confidence in God; Its Certitude

DEFECTS TO BE AVOIDED THE TRUE NATURE OF CHRISTIAN HOPE THE CERTITUDE OF HOPE THE QUALITIES OF CHRISTIAN HOPE ADMIRABLE EFFECTS OF LIVING HOPE CONFIRMED BY TRIALS

Chapter 19 The love of Conformity to the Divine Will

THE SIGNS OF IMPERFECT LOVE THE NATURE OF CHARITY AND THE MARKS OF ITS PROGRESS THE LOVE OF GOD AND OUR NATURAL DISPOSITIONS PROGRESSIVE CONFORMITY TO THE SIGNIFIED DIVINE WILL

Chapter 20 Fraternal Charity, Radiation of the Love of God

WHY OUR LOVE OF GOD SHOULD EXTEND TO OUR NEIGHBOR EFFICACY OF THE LOVE OF CHARITY THE COMPASS AND ORDER OF CHARITY HOW TO MAKE PROGRESS IN FRATERNAL CHARITY

Chapter 21 Zeal for the Glory of God and the Salvation of Souls

THE MOTIVES OF ZEAL THE QUALITIES OF ZEAL THE SOURCES OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESS AND DIVINE INTIMACY

Chapter 22 Docility to the Holy Ghost

THE INSPIRATIONS OF THE HOLY GHOST THE ASCENDING GRADATION OF THE GIFTS CONDITIONS REQUIRED FOR DOCILITY TO THE HOLY GHOST ACTS WHICH PREPARE THE SOUL FOR DOCILITY TO THE HOLY GHOST THE HARMONIZING OF DOCILITY TO THE HOLY GHOST WITH OBEDIENCE AND PRUDENCE THE FRUITS OF DOCILITY TO THE HOLY GHOST

Chapter 23 The Discerning of Spirits

THE SIGNS OF THE SPIRIT OF NATURE THE SIGNS OF THE SPIRIT OF THE DEVIL THE SIGNS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD

Chapter 24 The Sacrifice of the Mass and Proficients

ADORATION REPARATION PETITION THANKSGIVING

Chapter 25 The Communion of Proficients

THE HOLY TABLE AND THE UNITY OF THE MYSTICAL BODY COMMUNION AND THE GROWTH OF THE MYSTlCAL BODY OF CHRIST COMMUNION AND THE GIFT OF ONESELF

Chapter 26 Devotion to Mary in Proficients

TRUE DEVOTION TO MARY THE DEGREES OF THIS DEVOTION THE FRUITS OF THIS DEVOTION

Chapter 27 The Universal Accessibility of the Mysticism of The Imitation

THE MYSTICAL CHARACTER OF THE IMITATION THE DISPOSITIONS REQUIRED OR THE ASCETICISM OF The Imitation

Chapter 28 Contemplative Prayer

THE PASSAGE FROM ACQUIRED PRAYER TO INITIAL INFUSED PRAYER THE PASSAGE FROM MEDITATION TO CONTEMPLATION ACCORDING TO THE TRADITIONAL TEACHING EXPRESSED BY ST. FRANCIS DE SALES THE PRINCIPLES OF THIS TRADITIONAL TEACHING ACCORDING TO ST. THOMAS THE ACQUIRED PRAYER OF RECOLLECTION AND PASSIVE RECOLLECTION ACCORDING TO ST. TERESA

Chapter 29 The Errors of the Quietists on Contemplation and Pure love

THE QUIETISM OF MOLINOS SEMI-QUIETISM THE PROBLEM OF PURE LOVE IN WHAT THE PRACTICE OF PURE LOVE CONSISTS

Chapter 30 The Degrees of Contemplative Prayer in Proficients

THE PROGRESS OF PRAYER AND THE VIRTUES THE PRAYER OF QUIET THE PRAYER OF SIMPLE UNION CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER AND FERVENT COMMUNION

Chapter 31 Questions Relative to Infused Contemplation

THE PRINCIPAL PROBLEM ACCEPTED DEFINITIONS INTIMATE NATURE OF INFUSED CONTEMPLATION THE PROGRESS OF INFUSED CONTEMPLATION WHAT INFUSED CONTEMPLATION DOES NOT NECESSARILY REQUIRE THE CALL TO CONTEMPLATION THE DIRECTION OF SOULS IN RELATION TO CONTEMPLATION

Chapter 32 The New Elements in Infused Prayer

WHETHER THE CHARACTER OF NEWNESS ALWAYS APPEARS CLEARLY THE EXPLANATION OF THIS TRANSITION REPLY TO A DIFFICULTY THE SPECIAL ILLUMINATION OF THE HOLY GHOST THE SPECIAL ILLUMINATION OF THE GIFT OF WISDOM SUFFICIENT FOR INFUSED CONTEMPLATION

Chapter 33 The Agreement and Differences Between St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross

THE CAUSE OF THESE DIFFERENCES WHETHER THESE DIFFERENCES HAVE A COMMON BASIS A RECENT OBJECTION

PART 4 The Unitive Way of the Perfect Section I The Entrance into the Unitive Way through the Night of the Spirit

DIVISION OF PART IV Chapter 34 The necessity of the Passive Purification of the Spirit, and the Prelude of the Unitive Way

THE DEFECTS OF THE ADVANCED THE DEPTHS OF THE WILL TO BE PURIFIED

Chapter 35 Description of the Passive Purification of the Spirit

THE DARKNESS IN WHICH THE SOUL HAS THE IMPRESSION OF BEING THE REVELATION OF THE MAJESTY OF GOD IN THIS DARKNESS

Chapter 36 The Cause of the Passive Purification of the Spirit

PURIFYING INFUSED LIGHT AND SPIRITUAL FIRE THE INFLUENCE OF THE GIFT OF UNDERSTANDING IN THIS PURIFICATION

Chapter 37 The Transluminous Obscurity

THE EFFECT OF TOO GREAT A LIGHT THE EFFECT OF LIGHT ON WEAK EYES THE FEAR OF CONSENTING OR OF HAVING CONSENTED TO TEMPTATIONS CONFIRMATIONS

Chapter 38 Conduct to Be Observed during the Purification of the Spirit

GENEROUS ACCEPTANCE FAITH IN THE MYSTERY OF THE CROSS FIRM HOPE AND CONSTANT PRAYER THE LOVE OF CONFORMITY AND OF SUBMISSION TO GOD’S GOOD PLEASURE

Chapter 39 The Effects of the Passive Purification of the Spirit in Relation Especially to the Three Theological Virtues

NEGATIVE EFFECTS THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF THIS PURIFICATION THE PURIFICATION OF FAITH THE PURIFICATION OF HOPE THE PURIFICATION OF CHARITY SUFFERINGS THAT SOMETIMES ACCOMPANY THE PASSIVE PURIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT

Chapter 40 The Spiritual Age of the Perfect, Their Union with God

QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL AND ALMOST CONTINUAL KNOWLEDGE OF GOD LOVING GOD WITH ONE’S WHOLE MIND THE INDWELLING OF THE BLESSED TRINITY IN THE PURIFIED SOUL THE SIGNS OF THE INDWELLING OF THE BLESSED TRINITY IN THE PURIFIED SOUL

Chapter 41 A Form of Perfect Life the Way of Spiritual Childhood

THE INNATE QUALITIES OF THE CHILD THE PRINCIPAL VIRTUES OF THE CHILD OF GOD WHAT DISTINGUISHES SPIRITUAL CHILDHOOD FROM NATURAL CHILDHOOD

Section II The Heroic Degree of the Virtues

Chapter 42 The Heroic Degree of the Virtues in General

THE DISTINCTIVE MARKS OF HEROIC VIRTUE THE CONNECTION OF THE VIRTUES AND THEIR HEROIC DEGREE

Chapter 43 Heroic and Contemplative Faith

THE FIRMNESS OF ITS ADHERENCE PROMPTNESS IN REJECTING ERROR THE PENETRATION WHICH CAUSES EVERYTHING TO BE SEEN IN THE LIGHT OF REVELATION THE VICTORY OF HEROIC FAITH OVER THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD

Chapter 44 Heroic Hope and Abandonment

THE INVINCIBLE FIRMNESS OF PERFECT HOPE TRUSTING ABANDONMENT AND UNWAVERING FIDELITY THE HEROIC CONFIDENCE OF THE SAINTS RESTORES HOPE IN THEIR COMPANIONS

Chapter 45 Heroic Charity

HEROIC CHARITY TOWARD GOD PERFECT CONFORMITY TO HIS WILL AND LOVE OF THE CROSS HEROIC CHARITY TOWARD ONE’S NEIGHBOR: THE ARDENT DESIRE FOR HIS SALVATION AND RADIATING GOODNESS TOWARD ALL

Chapter 46 The Heroic Degree of the Christian Moral Virtues

HEROIC HUMILITY AND MEEKNESS HEROIC FORTITUDE AND MAGNANIMITY HEROIC PRUDENCE HEROIC JUSTICE THE HEROIC DEGREE OF THE RELIGIOUS VIRTUES

Chapter 47 The love of Jesus Crucified and of Mary in the Unitive Way

CHRIST’S VICTORY AND ITS RADIATION DEVOTION TO MARY IN THE UNITIVE WAY

Section III The Forms and Degrees of the Unitive Life

Chapter 48 Perfect Apostolic Life and Contemplation

THE EMINENT SOURCE OF THE APOSTOLATE THE CONDITION OF THE APOSTOLATE AND ITS FRUITFULNESS

Chapter 49 The life of Reparation

THE LIFE OF REPARATION IN THE PRIEST THE LIFE OF REPARATION IN ALL THOSE WHO HAVE A HEAVY CROSS TO CARRY A GREAT EXAMPLE THE REPARATORY NIGHT OF THE SPIRIT IN ST. PAUL OF THE CROSS

Chapter 50 The Influence of the Holy Ghost in the Perfect Soul

THE HOLY GHOST, UNCREATED GIFT THE ACTIVITY OF THE UNCREATED GIFT IN OUR SOULS CONCLUSION

Chapter 51 Arid Mystical Union and Ecstatic Union According to St. Teresa

ARID AND PAINFUL MYSTICAL UNION ECSTATIC UNION; ITS MANIFESTATION AND NATURE WHAT DISTINGUISHES RAPTURE FROM ECSTASY THE EFFECTS OF ECSTATIC UNION THE PURIFICATION OF LOVE

Chapter 52 The Transforming Union, Prelude of the Union of Heaven

THE GRACES WHICH SOMETIMES ACCOMPANY THE TRANSFORMING UNION THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF THE TRANSFORMING UNION THE THEOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF THIS STATE THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSFORMING UNION A NOTE ON THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF THE MYSTICAL LIFE 1 THE NAMELESS DEPTH OF THE SOUL AND THE DEITY 2 THE HOLY GHOST LIFTS UP THE SOUL AND PRAYS IN IT 3 DETACHMENT FROM SELF AND ATTACHMENT TO GOD 4 DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF THE TITLE “SPOUSE” 5 THE DESIRE OF THE TRANSFORMING UNION 6 THE INTIMACY OF THE TRANSFORMING UNION 7 THE EQUALITY OF LOVE 8 CONCLUSION

Appendix The Perfection Of Love And The Mystical Union

OR THE MYSTICISM OF A SPIRITUAL CANTICLE BY ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS I. THE PERFECTION OF LOVE AND INFUSED CONTEMPLATION II. THE UNION DESCRIBED IN A Spiritual Canticle IS MYSTICAL III. THE PERFECTION OF LOVE IN THE SPIRITUAL ESPOUSALS ST. 14. THE FLIGHT OF MYSTICAL CONTEMPLATION AND THE STATE OF UNION ST. 24. THE STATE OF THE SPIRITUAL ESPOUSALS, THE STATE OF PERFECT LOVE ST. 26. THE INNER CELLAR AND THE UNION OF MOST INTIMATE LOVE ST. 27. THE STATE OF THE SPIRITUAL ESPOUSALS AND THE COMPLETE IMPULSION OF THE SOUL TOWARD GOD ST. 28. THE SPIRITUAL ESPOUSALS AND THE ACTIVITY OF LOVE ST. 29. THE SOUL LOST TO THE WORLD FOR ITS BELOVED IV. THE PERFECTION OF LOVE IN THE SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE ST. 12. THE SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE AND THE TRANSFORMING UNION ST. 20–21. THE SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE AND THE TOTAL DEATH OF THE PASSIONS ST. 18. THE PERFECT CALM OF THE POWERS AND SENSES ST. 35. THE SOLITUDE OF THE SOUL WITH THE BRIDEGROOM ST. 37–38. PERFECT PURITY AND EQUALITY OF LOVE ST. 39. THE FLAME OF SWEET TRANSFORMATION ST. 40. THE FINAL PREPARATIONS OF THE SOUL NOTE TOWARD A CLOSE UNION, ALMOST ALWAYS AN ACTUALITY THE VALUE OF THE HIDDEN LIFE

PART 5 Extraordinary Graces

Chapter 53 Charisms or Graces Gratis Datae

NATURE AND DIVISION OF THE CHARISMS APPLICATION OF THIS DOCTRINE BY ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Chapter 54 Divine Revelations and Visions

WHAT SHOULD BE THOUGHT OF PRIVATE REVELATIONS SUPERNATURAL VISIONS

Chapter 55 Supernatural Words and Divine Touches

THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF SUPERNATURAL WORDS DIVINE TOUCHES

Chapter 56 Stigmatization and Suggestion

THE TRADITIONAL TEACHING ECSTASY AND STIGMATIZATION LEVITATION LUMINOUS EFFLUVIA FRAGRANT EFFLUVIA PROLONGED ABSTINENCE

Chapter 57 Differences Between Extraordinary Divine Facts and Morbid Phenomena

DIFFERENCES ON THE PART OF THE SUBJECT DIFFERENCES ON THE PART OF THE PHENOMENA DIFFERENCES IN THE EFFECTS AN EXAMINATION OF SOME PARTICULAR FACTS NOTE

Chapter 58 Diabolical Phenomena

OBSESSION POSSESSION A STRIKING EXAMPLE NOTE

EPILOGUE The Axis of the Spiritual Life and its Unity

THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ASCETICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY AS IT HAS OFTEN BEEN PROPOSED SINCE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DISADVANTAGES FROM A WRONG UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIVISION BETWEEN ASCETICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY VARIOUS FORMS OF SIMPLIFIED PRAYER THE AXIS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE AND ASCETICAL THEOLOGY RIGHTLY UNDERSTOOD THE AXIS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE AND TRUE MYSTICAL THEOLOGY

THE BEATIFIC VISION AND ITS NORMAL PRELUDE THE ABSOLUTELY IMMEDIATE VISION OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE THE NORMAL AND IMMEDIATE PRELUDE OF THE BEATIFIC VISION

ADDENDA

ON THE NATURE OF SPIRITUAL THEOLOGY SYNTHESIS OF THE TREATISE ON THE THREE AGES OF THE INTERIOR LIFE

REVEREND REGINALD GARRIGOU-LAGRANGE O.P.

THE THREE WAYS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE

CONTENTS THE THREE WAYS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE

CHAPTER 1 THE LIFE OF GRACE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FIRST CONVERSION

THE NECESSITY OF THE INTERIOR LIFE THE PRINCIPLE OF THE INTERIOR LIFE THE BEGINNING OF ETERNAL LIFE THE IMPORTANCE OF TRUE CONVERSION THE THREE PERIODS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE

CHAPTER 2 THE SECOND CONVERSION: ENTRANCE INTO THE ILLUMINATIVE WAY

THE SECOND CONVERSION OF THE APOSTLES

CHAPTER 3 THE THIRD CONVERSION OR TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOUL: ENTRANCE INTO THE UNITIVE WAY

THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY GHOST UPON THE APOSTLES THE EFFECTS OF THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY GHOST THE PURIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT NECESSARY FOR CHRISTIAN PERFECTION THE NECESSITY OF THE PURIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT HOW DOES GOD PURIFY THE SOUL IN THIS THIRD CONVERSION ?

CHAPTER 4 THE PROBLEM OF THE THREE STAGES OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE IN ASCETICAL AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM PROPOSED DIVISION OF THE THREE STAGES OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE TRANSITION: FIRST CONVERSION, OR JUSTIFICATION

CHAPTER 5 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE THREE STAGES OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE

BEGINNERS PROFICIENTS OR PROGRESSIVES THE PERFECT

CHAPTER 6 THE PEACE OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD: A PRELUDE TO THE LIFE OF HEAVEN

THE DIVINE AWAKENING THE LIVING FLAME WHAT ARE WE TO CONCLUDE FROM THIS DOCTRINE, WHICH MAY APPEAR TOO SUBLIME FOR US POOR MORTALS ? PAX IN VERITATE

THE TRINITY AND GOD THE CREATOR

CONTENTS THE TRINITY AND GOD THE CREATOR

PREFACE INTRODUCTION

1. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS TREATISE 2. THE TEACHING OF THE CHURCH ON THE TRINITY THE TRADITIONAL SYMBOL OF THE TRINITY ERRORS DENYING THE REAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE PERSONS ERRORS DENYING THE DIVINITY OF THE PERSONS TRITHEISM NEW TESTAMENT TESTIMONY ON THE THREE PERSONS SPECIAL TESTIMONIES ABOUT GOD THE FATHER SPECIAL TESTIMONIES ABOUT GOD THE SON SPECIAL TESTIMONIES ABOUT THE HOLY GHOST THE MYSTERY OF THE TRINITY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ANTE-NICENE TESTIMONIES POST-NICENE TESTIMONIES NOTE ON THE EVOLUTION OF DOGMA OR THE PROGRESSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF DOGMA THE AUGUSTINIAN TEACHING PREVAILED FOR THREE REASONS THE DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS’ TREATISE ON THE TRINITY THIS THIRD PART IS SUBDIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS:

CHAPTER I QUESTION 27 THE PROCESSION OF THE DIVINE PERSONS

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE IS ANY PROCESSION IN GOD SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER ANY PROCESSION IN GOD CAN BE CALLED GENERATION

CONCEPTION AND GENERATION ACCORDING TO ST. THOMAS

THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE IS IN GOD ANOTHER PROCESSION BESIDES THE GENERATION OF THE WORD FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO PROCESSIONS IN GOD

DOUBTS ABOUT THIS WHOLE QUESTION

RECAPITULATION

CHAPTER II QUESTION 28 THE DIVINE RELATIONS

PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES ON THE IDEA OF RELATION AND ITS DIVISION FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE ARE REAL RELATIONS IN GOD SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER A RELATION IN GOD IS THE SAME AS HIS ESSENCE

SOLUTION OF THE OBJECTIONS CONFIRMATION FROM THE FOLLOWING INCONGRUITIES

THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE RELATIONS IN GOD ARE REALLY DISTINGUISHED FROM ONE ANOTHER FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE ARE IN GOD ONLY FOUR REAL RELATIONS RECAPITULATION OF QUESTION TWENTY-EIGHT

CHAPTER III QUESTION 29 THE DIVINE PERSONS

FIRST ARTICLE: THE DEFINITION OF PERSON

THE REPLY OF ST. THOMAS AFFIRMS THAT BOETIUS’ DEFINITION IS ACCEPTABLE FOR THESE REASONS: CONFIRMATION. THE VALIDITY OF THIS DEFINITION IS CONFIRMED AS WE SOLVE THE OBJECTIONS THE NATURE OF PERSONALITY COROLLARIES

SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER PERSON IS THE SAME AS HYPOSTASIS, SUBSISTENCE, AND ESSENCE THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE TERM PERSON CAN BE APPLIED TO GOD FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER IN GOD THE TERM PERSON SIGNIFIES RELATION

THE SPECIAL DIFFICULTY IN THE LATIN’S CONCEPT

RECAPITULATION OF QUESTION TWENTY-NINE

CHAPTER IV QUESTION 30 THE PLURALITY OF THE DIVINE PERSONS CHAPTER V QUESTION 31 OF THE UNITY AND PLURALITY OF THE TRINITY

FIRST ARTICLE WHETHER THERE IS A TRINITY IN GOD SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON IS OTHER THAN THE FATHER THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER WE CAN SAY THAT GOD IS ALONE FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER WE CAN SAY THAT GOD THE FATHER IS ALONE

CHAPTER VI QUESTION 32 THE KNOWABILITY OF THE DIVINE PERSONS

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE UNITY OF DIVINE PERSONS CAN BE KNOWN BY NATURAL REASON

RECAPITULATION OF THE SOLUTION OF THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE TRINITY

SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE ARE NOTIONS IN GOD THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE ARE FIVE NOTIONS IN GOD FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER WE MAY HAVE CONTRARY OPINIONS ABOUT THE NOTIONS RECAPITULATION OF QUESTION 32

CHAPTER VII QUESTION 33 THE DIVINE PERSONS IN PARTICULAR—THE PERSON OF THE FATHER

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE FATHER IS A PRINCIPLE SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE NAME FATHER IS PROPERLY THE NAME OF A DIVINE PERSON THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER IN GOD THE NAME FATHER IS PRIMARILY USED WITH A PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER TO BE UNBEGOTTEN IS PROPER TO THE FATHER

CHAPTER VIII QUESTION 34 THE PERSON OF THE SON

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE WORD IN GOD IS A PERSONAL NAME SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE WORD IS THE PROPER NAME OF THE SON THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE NAME WORD IMPLIES A REFERENCE TO CREATURES

CHAPTER IX QUESTION 35 THE IMAGE

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER “IMAGE” IN GOD IS PREDICATED PERSONALLY SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE NAME IMAGE IS PROPER TO THE SON

CHAPTER X QUESTION 36 THE PERSON OF THE HOLY GHOST

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THIS NAME, HOLY SPIRIT OR HOLY GHOST, IS A PROPER NAME OF ONE OF THE DIVINE PERSONS SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE HOLY GHOST PROCEEDS FROM THE SON THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE HOLY GHOST PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER THROUGH THE SON FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE FATHER AND THE SON ARE ONE PRINCIPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST

CHAPTER XI QUESTION 37 LOVE AS THE NAME OF THE HOLY GHOST

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER LOVE IS THE PROPER NAME OF THE HOLY GHOST SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE FATHER AND THE SON LOVE EACH OTHER BY THE HOLY GHOST

CHAPTER XII QUESTION 38 THE GIFT AS THE NAME OF THE HOLY GHOST

PRELIMINARY REMARKS FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER “THE GIFT” IS A PERSONAL NAME SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER “GIFT” IS A PROPER NAME OF THE HOLY GHOST

CHAPTER XIII QUESTION 39 THE DIVINE PERSONS IN COMPARISON WITH THE ESSENCE

DIVISION OF QUESTION 39 FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IN GOD THE ESSENCE IS THE SAME AS A PERSON SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER WE MAY SAY THAT THE THREE PERSONS ARE OF ONE ESSENCE THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE ESSENTIAL NAMES CAN BE PREDICATED SINGLY OF THE THREE PERSONS FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CONCRETE ESSENTIAL TERMS (GOD, NOT DEITY) CAN BE SUBSTITUTED FOR PERSON FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ESSENTIAL TERMS TAKEN IN THE ABSTRACT CAN BE SUBSTITUTED FOR PERSON SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE PERSONS CAN BE PREDICATED OF THE ESSENTIAL NAMES SEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ESSENTIAL TERMS ARE TO BE PROPRIATED TO THE PERSONS EIGHTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE HOLY DOCTORS PROPERLY ATTRIBUTED ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES TO THE PERSONS

CHAPTER XIV QUESTION 40 THE PERSONS IN COMPARISON WITH THE RELATIONS

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER A RELATION IS THE SAME AS A PERSON SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE PERSONS ARE DISTINGUISHED BY THE RELATIONS THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE NOTIONAL ACTS ARE UNDERSTOOD PRIOR TO THE PROPERTIES

CHAPTER XV QUESTION 41 THE PERSONS IN COMPARISON WITH THE NOTIONAL ACTS

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER NOTIONAL ACTS ARE TO BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE PERSONS SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE NOTIONAL ACTS ARE VOLUNTARY THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER A PERSON PROCEEDS FROM SOMETHING OR FROM NOTHING BY THE NOTIONAL ACTS FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER IN GOD THERE IS POTENTIA WITH REGARD TO THE NOTIONAL ACTS FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE POWER TO GENERATE SIGNIFIES THE RELATION AND NOT THE ESSENCE SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER A NOTIONAL ACT CAN TERMINATE IN SEVERAL PERSONS

CHAPTER XVI QUESTION 42 THE EQUALITY AND SIMILARITY OF THE DIVINE PERSONS

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE DIVINE PERSONS ARE EQUAL SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE PROCEEDING PERSON IS COETERNAL WITH HIS PRINCIPAL THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE IS AN ORDER OF NATURE IN THE DIVINE PERSONS FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON IS EQUAL TO THE FATHER IN GREATNESS FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON IS IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IS IN THE SON SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON IS EQUAL TO THE FATHER IN POWER

CHAPTER XVII QUESTION 43 THE MISSION OF THE DIVINE PERSONS

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS FITTING FOR A DIVINE PERSON TO BE SENT SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER A MISSION IS ETERNAL OR ONLY TEMPORAL THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE INVISIBLE MISSION OF A DIVINE PERSON IS MERELY ACCORDING TO GRACE GRATUM FACIENS FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE FATHER IS SENT FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON IS INVISIBLY SENT SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE INVISIBLE MISSION IS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATE IN GRACE SEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE HOLY GHOST IS SENT VISIBLY EIGHTH ARTICLE EPILOGUE: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SUPREME MYSTERY OF THE TRINITY

GOD THE CREATOR THE PLACE OF THIS TREATISE IN THEOLOGY

DIVISION OF THE TREATISE ON GOD THE CREATOR CHAPTER XVIII QUESTION 44 THE FIRST CAUSE OF ALL BEING

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS NECESSARY THAT EVERY BEING BE CREATED BY GOD SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER PRIME MATTER IS CREATED BY GOD THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD IS THE EXEMPLARY CAUSE OF THINGS, OR WHETHER THERE. ARE OTHER MODELS BESIDES HIM FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD IS THE FINAL CAUSE OF ALL THINGS

CHAPTER XIX QUESTION 45 THE EMANATION OF THINGS

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER TO CREATE IS TO MAKE SOMETHING FROM NOTHING SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD CAN CREATE ANYTHING THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER CREATION IS ANYTHING IN THE CREATURE FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER TO BE CREATED IS PROPER TO COMPOSITE AND SUBSISTING BEINGS FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ONLY GOD CAN CREATE SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CREATION IS PROPER TO ANY PER SON WHATEVER SEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS NECESSARY TO FIND A VESTIGE OF THE TRINITY IN CREATURES EIGHTH ARTICLE: WHETHER CREATION IS MINGLED IN THE WORKS OF NATURE AND ART

CHAPTER XX QUESTION 46 THE DURATION OF CREATED BEINGS

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE WORLD OF CREATURES WAS ALWAYS SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER IT IS AN ARTICLE OF FAITH THAT THE WORLD BEGAN THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE CREATION OF THINGS WAS IN THE BEGINNING OF TIME

CHAPTER XXI QUESTION 47 THE DISTINCTION OF THINGS IN GENERAL

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE MULTITUDE AND DISTINCTION OF THINGS IS FROM GOD SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE INEQUALITY OF THINGS IS FROM GOD THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE IS AN ORDER OF AGENTS IN CREATURES FOURTH (THIRD) ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE IS ONLY ONE WORLD

CHAPTER XXII QUESTION 103 THE GOVERNANCE OF THINGS IN GENERAL

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE WORLD IS GOVERNED BY ANYONE SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE END OF THE GOVERNANCE OF THE WORLD IS SOMETHING OUT SIDE THE WORLD THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE WORLD IS GOVERNED BY ONE FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE EFFECT OF DIVINE GOVERNANCE IS ONE ONLY OR PLURAL FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ALL THINGS ARE SUBJECT TO THE DIVINE GOVERNANCE SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ALL THINGS ARE DIRECTLY GOVERNED BY GOD SEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN BEYOND THE ORDER OF DIVINE GOVERNANCE EIGHTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ANYTHING CAN WORK AGAIN ST THE ORDER OF THE DIVINE GOVERNANCE

CHAPTER XXIII QUESTION 104 THE CONSERVATION OF CREATURES

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER CREATURES NEED TO BE CON SERVED IN BEING BY GOD SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD CONSERVES EVERY CREATURE DIRECTLY THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD COULD REDUCE ANYTHING TO NOTHING FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ANYTHING IS EVER REDUCED TO NOTHING

CHAPTER XXIV QUESTION 105 THE CHANGE OF CREATURES BY GOD

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD CAN DIRECTLY MOVE MATTER TO THE FORM SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD CAN DIRECTLY MOVE A BODY THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD DIRECTLY MOVES THE CREATED INTELLECT FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD CAN MOVE THE CREATED WILL FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD OPERATES IN EVERY OPERATION SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER GOD CAN DO ANYTHING OUT SIDE THE ORDER FOUND IN THINGS SEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER EVERYTHING THAT GOD DOES OUTSIDE THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS IS A MIRACLE EIGHTH ARTICLE: WHETHER ONE MIRACLE IS GREATER THAN ANOTHER

CHAPTER XXV QUESTIONS 48, 49 THE DISTINCTION OF THINGS IN PARTICULAR

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER EVIL IS ANY KIND OF NATURE SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER EVIL IS FOUND IN THINGS THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER EVIL IS IN THE GOOD AS IN A SUBJECT FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER EVIL CORRUPTS GOOD COMPLETELY FIFTH ARTICLE: WHETHER EVIL IS COMPLETELY DIVIDED INTO THAT OF PENALTY AND GUILT SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER PENALTY HAS MORE OF EVIL THAN GUILT HAS

CHAPTER XXVI QUESTION 49 THE CAUSE OF EVIL

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER GOOD CAN BE THE CAUSE OF EVIL SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE HIGHEST GOOD, WHICH IS GOD, IS THE CAUSE OF EVIL THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THERE IS ONE SUPREME EVIL WHICH IS THE CAUSE OF ALL EVIL

CHAPTER XXVII QUESTION 50 THE EXISTENCE AND THE SUBSTANCE OF THE ANGELS

FIRST ARTICLE: THE EXISTENCE OF THE ANGELS SECOND ARTICLE: THE TEACHING OF ST. THOMAS COMPARED WITH THAT OF SCOTUS AND SUAREZ THIRD ARTICLE: THE CREATION AND SUBSTANCE OF THE ANGELS QUESTION 61, A. 2 AND 3; QUESTION 50 FOURTH ARTICLE: THE ANGELS ARE PURE SPIRITS WITHOUT A BODY QUESTION 50, A. 1 FIFTH ARTICLE: THE ANGELS ARE ABSOLUTELY IMMATERIAL QUESTION 50, A. 2 SIXTH ARTICLE: HOW THE ANGELS ASSUME BODIES SEVENTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE ANGELS DIFFER IN SPECIES QUESTION 50, A. 4 EIGHTH ARTICLE: WHETHER AN ANGEL IS IN A PLACE QUESTION 52, A. 1

CHAPTER XXVIII QUESTION 54, A. 1 THE ANGELS COGNITIVE FACULTY

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE ANGELS INTELLECTION IS ITS SUBSTANCE SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE INTELLECTION OF THE ANGEL IS ITS BEING THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE ANGELS INTELLECTIVE FACULTY IS ITS ESSENCE

CHAPTER XXIX QUESTION 55 THE MEANS OF ANGELIC COGNITION

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE ANGELS KNOW ALL THINGS BY THEIR ESSENCE AS GOD DOES SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE ANGELS UNDERSTAND THROUGH SPECIES TAKEN FROM THINGS THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE HIGHER ANGELS KNOW BY MORE UNIVERSAL SPECIES THAN THE LOWER ANGELS FOURTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE ANGELS NATURALLY KNOW FUTURE CONTINGENT BEINGS AND THE SECRETS OF HEARTS (Q. 57, A. 3, 4)

CHAPTER XXX QUESTION 60 THE LOVE OF THE ANGELS

FIRST ARTICLE: THE WILL AND THE LIBERTY OF THE ANGELS SECOND ARTICLE: THE ANGELS NATURAL AND ELECTIVE LOVE THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER BY ITS NATURAL LOVE THE ANGEL LOVES GOD MORE THAN ITSELF

CHAPTER XXXI QUESTION 62, A. 4, 5, 6 THE MERITS OF THE ANGELS

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE GOOD ANGELS MERITED THEIR HAPPINESS SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE ANGELS MERITED IN THE FIRST INSTANT THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE ANGELS ATTAINED GRACE AND GLORY ACCORDING TO THE QUANTITY OF THEIR NATURES

CHAPTER XXXII THE GUILT AND OBSTINACY OF THE DEVILS

FIRST ARTICLE: WHETHER THE EVIL OF GUILT CAN BE IN THE ANGELS (Q. 63, A. 1) SECOND ARTICLE: WHETHER THE ANGELS COULD SIN IN THE FIRST INSTANT THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER THE ANGELS COULD HAVE SINNED VENIALLY FOURTH ARTICLE: THE OBSTINACY OF THE DEVILS

CHAPTER XXXIII QUESTION 106 THE ILLUMINATION OF THE ANGELS CHAPTER XXXIV QUESTIONS 108-112 THE HIERARCHIES OF ANGELS CHAPTER XXXV QUESTION 113 THE GUARDIAN ANGELS

FIRST ARTICLE: THE GUARDIANSHIP OF THE ANGELS SECOND ARTICLE: THE DUTIES OF GUARDIAN ANGELS

CHAPTER XXXVI QUESTION 114 THE ASSAULTS OF THE DEVILS CHAPTER XXXVII QUESTIONS 65-74 THE CORPOREAL CREATURE CHAPTER XXXVIII MAN CHAPTER XXXIX THE UNION OF THE SOUL WITH THE BODY CHAPTER XL QUESTIONS 77-83 THE FACULTIES OF THE SOUL CHAPTER XLI THE ACTS OF THE INTELLECTIVE PART OF THE SOUL; HOW THE SOUL KNOWS ITSELF CHAPTER XLII THE SEPARATED SOUL

FIRST ARTICLE: THE SUBSISTENCE OF THE SEPARATED SOUL SECOND ARTICLE: THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SEPARATED SOUL THIRD ARTICLE: THE IMMUTABLE WILL OF SEPARATED SOULS

CHAPTER XLIII THE ORIGIN OF MAN

FIRST ARTICLE: THE CREATION OF OUR FIRST PARENTS SECOND ARTICLE: THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE THIRD ARTICLE: THE PRODUCTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL

CHAPTER XLIV MAN’S ELEVATION TO THE SUPERNATURAL STATE

FIRST ARTICLE: WHAT IS MEANT BY THE SUPERNATURAL SECOND ARTICLE: THE DIFFERENT STATES OF HUMAN NATURE IN RELATION TO GRACE THIRD ARTICLE: WHETHER OUR FIRST PARENTS WERE CONSTITUTED IN THE STATE OF HOLINESS AND JUSTICE, AND WHETHER THIS STATE WAS SUPERNATURAL FOURTH ARTICLE: THE GIFT OF INTEGRITY FIFTH ARTICLE: THE CONDITION OF THE OFFSPRING IN THE STATE OF INNOCENCE SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER SANCTIFYING GRACE WAS A GIFT OF NATURE OR A PERSONAL GIFT IN ADAM

CHAPTER XLV THE FALL OF MAN

FIRST ARTICLE: THE SIN OF OUR FIRST PARENTS SECOND ARTICLE: THE EXISTENCE OF ORIGINAL SIN AND ITS EFFECTS ON ADAM’S POSTERITY THIRD ARTICLE: THE NATURE OF ORIGINAL SIN FOURTH ARTICLE: THE CONSEQUENCES OF ORIGINAL SIN CONCLUSION

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