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Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Theology
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Chapters 201
  1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION ≈ 41 min
  2. QUESTION ONE WHAT SACRED DOCTRINE IS, AND WHAT IT CONCERNS ≈ 1 min
  3. ARTICLE ONE Whether Another Doctrine is Necessary, besides the Philosophical Sciences ≈ 5 min
  4. ARTICLE TWO Whether Sacred Doctrine is a Science ≈ 3 min
  5. ARTICLE THREE Whether Sacred Doctrine is a Single Science ≈ 3 min
  6. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Sacred Doctrine is a Practical Science ≈ 2 min
  7. ARTICLE FIVE Whether Sacred Doctrine is Nobler than other Sciences ≈ 5 min
  8. ARTICLE SIX Whether Sacred Doctrine is Wisdom ≈ 6 min
  9. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether God is the Subject of This Science ≈ 4 min
  10. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether Sacred Doctrine Proceeds by Argument ≈ 6 min
  11. ARTICLE NINE Whether Sacred Doctrine should Use Metaphors ≈ 5 min
  12. ARTICLE TEN Whether One Passage of Sacred Scripture may have Several Interpretations ≈ 6 min
  13. ARTICLE ONE Whether it is Self-Evident that God Exists ≈ 7 min
  14. ARTICLE TWO Whether God’s Existence can be Demonstrated ≈ 5 min
  15. ARTICLE THREE Whether God Exists ≈ 10 min
  16. QUESTION THREE OF THE SIMPLE NATURE OF GOD ≈ 2 min
  17. ARTICLE ONE Whether God is a Body ≈ 7 min
  18. ARTICLE TWO Whether there is Composition of Form and Matter in God ≈ 4 min
  19. ARTICLE THREE Whether God is the Same as his Essence, or Nature ≈ 5 min
  20. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Essence and Existence are the Same in God ≈ 6 min
  21. ARTICLE FIVE Whether God Belongs to a Genus ≈ 6 min
  22. ARTICLE SIX Whether there is any Accident in God ≈ 4 min
  23. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether God is Altogether Simple ≈ 5 min
  24. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether God Enters into the Composition of Other Things ≈ 6 min
  25. ARTICLE ONE Whether God is Perfect ≈ 4 min
  26. ARTICLE TWO Whether the Perfections of all Things are in God ≈ 6 min
  27. ARTICLE THREE Whether any Creature can be Like God ≈ 15 min
  28. ARTICLE ONE Whether there is Love in God ≈ 8 min
  29. ARTICLE TWO Whether God Loves all Things ≈ 6 min
  30. ARTICLE THREE Whether God Loves All Things Equally ≈ 4 min
  31. ARTICLE FOUR Whether God Always Loves Better Things the More ≈ 10 min
  32. ARTICLE ONE Whether There Is Justice in God ≈ 8 min
  33. ARTICLE TWO Whether God’s Justice is Truth ≈ 3 min
  34. ARTICLE THREE Whether there is Mercy in God ≈ 4 min
  35. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Justice and Mercy are Present in all God’s Works ≈ 7 min
  36. ARTICLE ONE Whether Providence is Appropriately Ascribed to God ≈ 6 min
  37. ARTICLE TWO Whether All Things are under Divine Providence ≈ 12 min
  38. ARTICLE THREE Whether God Provides for All Things Directly ≈ 5 min
  39. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Providence Imposes a Necessity on what it Provides ≈ 4 min
  40. QUESTION TWENTY-THREE OF PREDESTINATION ≈ 1 min
  41. ARTICLE ONE Whether Men are Predestined by God ≈ 6 min
  42. ARTICLE TWO Whether Predestination Implies Anything in the Predestined ≈ 6 min
  43. ARTICLE THREE Whether God Rejects Any Man ≈ 5 min
  44. ARTICLE FOUR Whether the Predestined are Chosen by God ≈ 5 min
  45. ARTICLE FIVE Whether the Foreknowledge of Merits is the Cause of Predestination ≈ 14 min
  46. ARTICLE SIX Whether Predestination is Certain ≈ 5 min
  47. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether the Number of the Predestined is Certain ≈ 9 min
  48. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether Predestination can be Furthered by the Prayers of the Devout ≈ 6 min
  49. ARTICLE ONE Whether Original Sin is a Habit ≈ 5 min
  50. ARTICLE TWO Whether there are Many Original Sins in One Man ≈ 5 min
  51. ARTICLE THREE Whether Original Sin is Desire ≈ 5 min
  52. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Original Sin is in All Men Equally ≈ 5 min
  53. QUESTION EIGHTY-FIVE THE EFFECTS OF SIN ≈ 1 min
  54. ARTICLE ONE Whether Sin Diminishes Natural Good ≈ 6 min
  55. ARTICLE TWO Whether the Whole Good of Human Nature can be Destroyed by Sin ≈ 7 min
  56. ARTICLE THREE Whether Weakness, Ignorance, Malice, and Desire are Rightly Named as the Wounds of Nature Due to Sin ≈ 6 min
  57. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Privation of Mode, Species, and Order is the Effect of Sin ≈ 4 min
  58. ARTICLE FIVE Whether Death and Other Defects of the Body are the Effects of Sin ≈ 7 min
  59. ARTICLE SIX Whether Death and Other Defects are Natural to Man ≈ 8 min
  60. QUESTION ONE HUNDRED AND NINE CONCERNING THE EXTERNAL PRINCIPLE OF HUMAN ACTIONS, THAT IS, THE GRACE OF GOD ≈ 2 min
  61. ARTICLE ONE Whether a Man can Know any Truth without Grace ≈ 8 min
  62. ARTICLE TWO Whether a Man can Will or do Good without Grace ≈ 7 min
  63. ARTICLE THREE Whether a Man can Love God above All Things by His Natural Powers alone, without Grace ≈ 7 min
  64. ARTICLE FOUR Whether a Man can fulfil the Commandments of the Law by His Natural Powers, without Grace ≈ 5 min
  65. ARTICLE FIVE Whether a Man can Merit Eternal Life, without Grace ≈ 5 min
  66. ARTICLE SIX Whether without Grace a Man can Prepare Himself for Grace ≈ 7 min
  67. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether a Man can rise from Sin without the Help of Grace ≈ 6 min
  68. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether a Man can avoid Sin, without Grace ≈ 8 min
  69. ARTICLE NINE Whether, after receiving Grace, a Man can do Good and avoid Sin, without further help of Grace ≈ 6 min
  70. ARTICLE TEN Whether a Man in Grace needs the help of Grace in order to Persevere ≈ 5 min
  71. ARTICLE ONE Whether Grace denotes Something in the Soul ≈ 8 min
  72. ARTICLE TWO Whether Grace is a Quality of the Soul ≈ 7 min
  73. ARTICLE THREE Whether Grace is the same as Virtue ≈ 6 min
  74. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Grace is in the Soul’s Essence as its Subject, or in One of its Powers ≈ 6 min
  75. ARTICLE ONE Whether Grace is appropriately divided into Sanctifying Grace and Free Grace ≈ 6 min
  76. ARTICLE TWO Whether Grace is appropriately divided into Operative and Co-operative Grace ≈ 7 min
  77. ARTICLE THREE Whether Grace is Appropriately Divided into Prevenient and Subsequent Grace ≈ 5 min
  78. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Free Grace is Appropriately Divided by the Apostle ≈ 9 min
  79. ARTICLE FIVE Whether Free Grace is Nobler than Sanctifying Grace ≈ 5 min
  80. ARTICLE ONE Whether God is the Sole Cause of Grace ≈ 4 min
  81. ARTICLE TWO Whether a Preparation or Disposition for Grace is required on the part of man ≈ 6 min
  82. ARTICLE THREE Whether Grace is Bound to be given to One Who Prepares Himself for Grace, or Who does what He can ≈ 5 min
  83. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Grace is greater in One Man than in Another ≈ 5 min
  84. ARTICLE FIVE Whether a Man can know that He has Grace ≈ 8 min
  85. QUESTION ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN THE EFFECTS OF GRACE ≈ 1 min
  86. ARTICLE ONE Whether the Justification of the Ungodly is the Remission of Sins ≈ 6 min
  87. ARTICLE TWO Whether an Infusion of Grace is required for the Remission of Guilt, which is the Justification of the Ungod ≈ 6 min
  88. ARTICLE THREE Whether a Movement of the Free Will is required for the Justification of the Ungodly ≈ 8 min
  89. ARTICLE FOUR Whether a Movement of Faith is reojuired for the Justification of the Ungodly ≈ 5 min
  90. ARTICLE FIVE Whether a Movement of the Free Will against Sin is required for the justification of the ungodly ≈ 5 min
  91. ARTICLE SIX Whether the Remission of Sins should be Numbered with the things reequired for the Justification of the Ungo ≈ 5 min
  92. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether the Justification of the Ungodly is achieved Instantaneously or Gradually ≈ 12 min
  93. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether the Infusion of Grace is the First of the Things required for the Justification of the Ungodly, Ac ≈ 7 min
  94. ARTICLE NINE Whether the Justification of the Ungodly is the Greatest Work of God ≈ 6 min
  95. ARTICLE TEN Whether the Justification of the Ungodly is a Miracle ≈ 6 min
  96. QUESTION ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN CONCERNING MERIT, WHICH IS THE EFFECT OF CO-OPERATIVE GRACE ≈ 1 min
  97. ARTICLE ONE Whether a Man can Merit Anything from God ≈ 6 min
  98. ARTICLE TWO Whether One can Merit Eternal Life without Grace ≈ 6 min
  99. ARTICLE THREE Whether a Man in Grace can Merit Eternal Life Condignly ≈ 5 min
  100. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Grace is the Principle of Merit through Charity more Principally than through Other Virtues ≈ 6 min
  101. ARTICLE FIVE Whether a Man can Merit the First Grace for Himself ≈ 5 min
  102. ARTICLE SIX Whether a Man can Merit the First Grace for Another ≈ 5 min
  103. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether aMan can Merit His Restoration after aLapse ≈ 5 min
  104. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether a Man can Merit an Increase of Grace or Charity ≈ 5 min
  105. ARTICLE NINE Whether a Man can Merit Perseverance ≈ 5 min
  106. ARTICLE TEN Whether Temporal Goods can be Merited ≈ 7 min
  107. QUESTION ONE THE OBJECT OF FAITH ≈ 1 min
  108. ARTICLE ONE Whether the Object of Faith is the First Truth ≈ 5 min
  109. ARTICLE TWO Whether the Object of Faith is Something Complex, in the Form of a Proposition ≈ 4 min
  110. ARTICLE THREE Whether what is False can be Held in Faith ≈ 6 min
  111. ARTICLE FOUR Whether the Object of Faith can be Something Seen ≈ 4 min
  112. ARTICLE FIVE Whether the Things of Faith can be Known Scientifically ≈ 7 min
  113. ARTICLE SIX Whether Matters of Faith ought to be Divided into Certain Articles ≈ 7 min
  114. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether the Articles of Faith have Increased with the Passing of Time ≈ 10 min
  115. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether the Articles of Faith are appropriately Enumerated ≈ 11 min
  116. ARTICLE NINE Whether the Articles of Faith are appropriately Set Forth in a Symbol ≈ 8 min
  117. ARTICLE TEN Whether it is for the Chief Pontiff to Draw Up the Symbol of the Faith ≈ 7 min
  118. QUESTION TWO THE ACT OF FAITH ≈ 1 min
  119. ARTICLE ONE Whether to Believe is to Think with Assent ≈ 6 min
  120. ARTICLE TWO Whether to Believe God, to Believe that there is a God, and to Believe in God are rightly Distinguished as A ≈ 5 min
  121. ARTICLE THREE Whether, for Salvation, it is Necessary to Believe Anything which is Beyond Natural Reason ≈ 6 min
  122. ARTICLE FOUR Whether it is Necessary to Believe such Things as can be Proved by Natural Reason ≈ 5 min
  123. ARTICLE FIVE Whether a Man is required to Believe Anything Explicitly ≈ 7 min
  124. ARTICLE SIX Whether all Men Equally are required to have Explicit Faith ≈ 5 min
  125. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether Explicit Belief in the Mystery of the Incarnation of Christ is Necessary for the Salvation of Ever ≈ 10 min
  126. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether Explicit Belief in the Trinity is Necessary for Salvation ≈ 5 min
  127. ARTICLE NINE Whether to Believe is Meritorious ≈ 6 min
  128. ARTICLE TEN Whether a Reason in Support of the Things of Faith Diminishes the Merit of Faith ≈ 7 min
  129. ARTICLE ONE Whether Confession is an Act of Faith ≈ 4 min
  130. ARTICLE TWO Whether Confession of Faith is Necessary for Salvation ≈ 6 min
  131. QUESTION FOUR THE VIRTUE ITSELF OF FAITH ≈ 1 min
  132. ARTICLE ONE Whether this is a Satisfactory Definition of Faith: Faith is the Substance of Things Hoped for, the Evidence ≈ 11 min
  133. ARTICLE TWO Whether Faith is in the Intellect as its Subject ≈ 6 min
  134. ARTICLE THREE Whether Charity is the Form of Faith ≈ 4 min
  135. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Unformed Faith can become Formed, or Vice Versa ≈ 7 min
  136. ARTICLE FIVE Whether Faith is a Virtue ≈ 7 min
  137. ARTICLE SIX Whether Faith is a Single Virtue ≈ 4 min
  138. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether Faith is the First of the Virtues ≈ 8 min
  139. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether Faith is more Certain than Science and the Other Intellectual Virtues ≈ 6 min
  140. ARTICLE ONE Whether Angels and Man had Faith in their First State ≈ 8 min
  141. ARTICLE TWO Whether Devils Have Faith ≈ 5 min
  142. ARTICLE THREE Whether One Who Disbelieves One Article of Faith can Have Unformed Faith in the Other Articles ≈ 6 min
  143. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Faith can be Greater in One Than in Another ≈ 6 min
  144. ARTICLE ONE Whether Faith is Infused into Man by God ≈ 5 min
  145. ARTICLE TWO Whether Unformed Faith is a Gift of God ≈ 7 min
  146. ARTICLE ONE Whether Fear is an Effect of Faith ≈ 5 min
  147. ARTICLE TWO Whether Purification of the Heart is an Effect of Faith ≈ 3 min
  148. QUESTION SEVENTEEN OF HOPE, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF ≈ 1 min
  149. ARTICLE ONE Whether Hope is a Virtue ≈ 5 min
  150. ARTICLE TWO Whether Eternal Blessedness is the Proper Object of Hope ≈ 5 min
  151. ARTICLE THREE Whether One can Hope for the Eternal Blessedness of Another ≈ 4 min
  152. ARTICLE FOUR Whether One may Lawfully Hope in Man ≈ 4 min
  153. ARTICLE FIVE Whether Hope is a Theological Virtue ≈ 6 min
  154. ARTICLE SIX Whether Hope is Distinct from the other Theological Virtues ≈ 4 min
  155. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether Hope precedes Faith ≈ 3 min
  156. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether Charity is Prior to Hope ≈ 5 min
  157. ARTICLE ONE Whether Hope is in the Will as its Subject ≈ 5 min
  158. ARTICLE TWO Whether there is Hope in the Blessed ≈ 6 min
  159. ARTICLE THREE Whether there is Hope in the Damned ≈ 6 min
  160. ARTICLE FOUR Whether the Hope of Wayfarers is Certain ≈ 3 min
  161. QUESTION NINETEEN THE GIFT OF FEAR ≈ 1 min
  162. ARTICLE ONE Whether God can be Feared ≈ 4 min
  163. ARTICLE TWO Whether Fear is appropriately Divided into Filial, Initial, Servile, and Worldly Fear ≈ 7 min
  164. ARTICLE THREE Whether Worldly Fear is always Evil ≈ 5 min
  165. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Servile Fear is Good ≈ 5 min
  166. ARTICLE FIVE Whether Servile Fear is substantially the Same as Filial Fear ≈ 4 min
  167. ARTICLE SIX Whether Servile Fear Remains when Charity is Present ≈ 5 min
  168. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether Fear is the Beginning of Wisdom ≈ 5 min
  169. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether Initial Fear Differs Substantially from Filial Fear ≈ 4 min
  170. ARTICLE NINE Whether Fear is a Gift of the Holy Spirit ≈ 8 min
  171. ARTICLE TEN Whether Fear Diminishes as Charity Increases ≈ 4 min
  172. ARTICLE ELEVEN Whether Fear Remains in Heaven ≈ 6 min
  173. ARTICLE TWELVE Whether Poverty of Spirit is the Beatitude which Corresponds to the Gift of Fear ≈ 6 min
  174. ARTICLE ONE Whether Despair is a Sin ≈ 6 min
  175. ARTICLE TWO Whether there can be Despair without Unbelief ≈ 5 min
  176. ARTICLE THREE Whether Despair is the Greatest of Sins ≈ 5 min
  177. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Despair Arises from Listlessness ≈ 5 min
  178. ARTICLE ONE Whether Presumption Relies on God, or on One’s Own Power ≈ 6 min
  179. ARTICLE TWO Whether Presumption is a Sin ≈ 4 min
  180. ARTICLE THREE Whether Presumption is Opposed to Fear rather than to Hope ≈ 5 min
  181. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Presumption is Caused by Vainglory ≈ 3 min
  182. ARTICLE ONE Whether Charity is Friendship ≈ 6 min
  183. ARTICLE TWO Whether Charity is Something Created in the Soul ≈ 8 min
  184. ARTICLE THREE Whether Charity is a Virtue ≈ 6 min
  185. ARTICLE FOUR Whether Charity is a Specific Virtue ≈ 4 min
  186. ARTICLE FIVE Whether Charity is a Single Virtue ≈ 4 min
  187. ARTICLE SIX Whether Charity is the Most Excellent of the Virtues ≈ 6 min
  188. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether there can be any True Virtue without Charity ≈ 7 min
  189. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether Charity is the Form of the Virtues ≈ 4 min
  190. QUESTION TWENTY-SEVEN OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT OF CHARITY, WHICH IS TO LOVE ≈ 1 min
  191. ARTICLE ONE Whether to be Loved is More Proper to Charity than to Love ≈ 5 min
  192. ARTICLE TWO Whether the Love which is an Act of Charity is the Same as Benevolence ≈ 5 min
  193. ARTICLE THREE Whether by Charity God is to be Loved on Account of Himself ≈ 6 min
  194. ARTICLE FOUR Whether God can be Loved Immediately in this Life ≈ 5 min
  195. ARTICLE FIVE Whether God can be Loved Wholly ≈ 3 min
  196. ARTICLE SIX Whether Love to God ought to have a Mode ≈ 7 min
  197. ARTICLE SEVEN Whether it is more Meritorious to Love an Enemy than to Love a Friend ≈ 6 min
  198. ARTICLE EIGHT Whether it is more Meritorious to Love One’s Neighbour than to Love God ≈ 5 min
  199. BIBLIOGRAPHY ≈ 14 min
  200. CONTENTS ≈ 19 min
  201. ENDNOTES ≈ 12 min
AuthorSaint Thomas Aquinas
LanguageEnglish
Era1200s
CategoriesTheology
Length201 chapters · ≈ 19 h 43 min read
FormatsWeb Book · EPUB

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