Peter’s denial of, as mortal sin, 120–21
Peter’s denial of, as mortal sin, 120–21
prelates and clerics inheriting patrimony of, 68
rainbow signifying, 308
redemptive power of suffering without death of, 218, 220–22
single existence of, 91, 95–97
as single subsisting individual, 91–95
sonship of, 91, 97–100, 182–84, 346, 347–48
as wisdom, 248
Chrysostom
on children received into religious life, 375–76
on counsels of religious life and commandments, 388–89
on deprivation of beatific vision, 245
on drawing people away from spiritual things, 281
Homilies on Matthew, 245
insults, on tolerating, 427
multiple prebends and, 122
on phylacteries, 440
on relative perfection of secular clergy versus religious, 282, 285–86
on rich people entering the kingdom of heaven, 277
on sin against Holy Spirit, 247–48n105
Church. See also papacy; papal decrees
baptism of Jewish children against parents’ will, customary rejection of, 233
canonized saints, blessedness/damnation of, 125–26
damnable error, (in)ability to commit, 125, 126
heretics wishing to return to, 153, 155–56
identity of current Church with Apostolic Church, 444
keys of the Church/power of the keys, 199, 249, 305–6, 352, 456, 489
marriage, involvement in, 411
preaching on one’s own authority, 453
priests declared as known fornicators by, 173
property of, clerical use of, 325–28
tithes and tithing, 229, 234–37, 319–20, 323–24, 492
Church Militant, 488
Church Triumphant, 488
Cicero
on fate, 433
on moral virtues, 449n81
city, expulsion from, due to factions, 449
clerics and members of religious orders, liv–lix. See also benefices; confessors; counsels of religious life; divine office; obedience, religious vow of; preaching and preachers; prebends; prelates; specific religious orders
abbots, defined, 487
almsgiving by religious, lviii, 279–80
anti-mendicant sentiment and, lv–lvii, lviii–lix
archdeacons and archdeaconry, defined, 487
baptism, power to confer, 171
canons regular, 487
chapters, defined, 488
children without experience keeping commandments, received into religious life, 369–82
confirmation, power to confer, 170–72
contemplative versus active life, lviii–lix, 279, 281–89, 384
deacons, defined, 488
definition of cleric, 488
definition of religious, 491
expulsion of religious from religious life for sinning, 461–62
insults, toleration by members of religious orders, 426–27
meat eating by monks as mortal sin, l–li, 209, 211–13
monastery, defined, 490
oath not to enter religious life, becoming a religious after, 426, 427–28
oath not to enter religious life, making a person take, 267, 278–79
parents, religious assisting, 279, 280–81
patrimony of Christ, inheriting, 68
preacher’s desire for temporal things, 240, 242
priors, defined, 490
reception into religious life, lvii–lviii, 267–79
relative perfection of secular clergy versus religious, lviii–lix, 279, 281–89
remaining in world after taking religious vows, 267, 272–76
sinners, leading into religious life, 267, 276–78
spiritual works versus manual labor, lvi–lvii
studying and teaching theology versus salvation of souls, 202, 203–6
temporal punishment of religious who sin, 461–62
tolerating attacks on religious, lix
young people obligated to religious life by taking vows, lvii–lviii, 267–72
clothing, expensive, xlvii, 149, 152–53
combining and dividing, intellectual acts of, 488
commanding as act of will versus reason, 115, 118–19
commandments. See also specific commandment topics, e.g. parents, lying, etc.
children without experience keeping commandments, received into religious life, 369–82
counsels of religious life and, 369, 383–91, 414–18
dispensations from, 209–10
of first tablet versus second tablet, 209–10, 274, 414–15, 418–19, 488
homicide versus false oaths, as sin, xlix, 79–80, 209–10
manual labor as, lvi–lvii, 34–41
commentaries of Thomas Aquinas, xxxi–xxxii
Commentary on Boethius’s On the Trinity (Thomas Aquinas), 457n113
Commentary on the Sentences (Thomas Aquinas), xxxi
commentators on scripture, 452–53
common public good versus private good, 273, 282
Communion. See Eucharist
compaternity
defined, 488
preparations for receiving sacraments and, 443
Compendium of Theology (Thomas Aquinas), xxxii–xxxiii
compline, 488
conception of Virgin Mary, celebrating feast of, 319–21
concupiscence
defined, 488
impulses or appetites as, li, 366–69
confession and penance
absolution, guilt forgiven by, 351–53
administration of Eucharist and, 198, 201–2
arbitrary nature of penance, 306
children exempt from, 370
divine office, proper penance for failure to say, 305, 306–7
good done for forgiveness of sins, 305–6
keys of the Church/power of the keys, 199, 249, 305–6, 352, 456, 489
Lent, waiting for, 198, 199–200
removal from position because of something heard in, 407–9
written versus spoken, 198–99
confessors
absolution, priest without care of souls giving, 442
hearing confessions on pope’s authority without prelate’s permission, 456–57
parish priest’s knowledge of confession by parishioners, 198, 201–2
confirmation, power to confer, 170–72
conscience
binding of mistaken conscience, 301, 303–4
defined, 302
possible to be mistaken, 301–3
Constantine I the Great (emperor), 233
contemplative versus active life, lviii–lix, 279, 281–89, 384
continence/chastity vows
duty to honor parents by contracting marriage and, 144, 145–46
marriage contracts, effect on, 71, 75–76, 144, 148–49, 289
Contra Impugnantes (Thomas Aquinas), lviiin91
contrition, 197–98, 200, 423–24, 488
cosmology, lxi–lxii
counsels of religious life
commandments and, 369, 383–91, 414–18
defined, 488
created intellects. See angels; human nature and the soul
creation
ability of created intellect to see divine essence directly, 1–4
angels, (not) causing the rational soul, 260–63
God uttering himself and creation by same word, 346–47
knowledge of God regarding first instant when world could have been created, 392–93
number six as creator or creature, 52–53, 55
vegetative and sensitive souls as product of, 115–18
Crucifixion of Christ. See Christ
crusaders
dying while going on crusade versus dying while coming back from crusade, 407, 409–10
married men going on crusade, 351, 353–54
cura animarum. See pastoral concerns
Cyril of Alexandria, Against the Errors of the Greeks, 191n27
Damascene
children received into religious life and, 371, 381
on difference as cause of number, 345
on evil prelates, 70–71
food, on Christ (not) eating after his resurrection, 259
on Incarnation, 67–68
on sanctifying power of Christ, 397–98
on sin going against nature, 297
on souls of heavenly bodies, 436
on substance and activity, 138
on Virgin Mary, 334–35
damnation, xliv–xlv. See also punishment of the damned
bodies of the damned, 23–27
of canonized saints, 125–26
contrite person preferring being in hell to sinning, 197–98
deformities in life, bodies of the damned arising with, 23, 25
envy of the damned, 34
glory of the saints, visibility of, to the damned, 81–83
incorruptibility of bodies of the damned, 23–24
misery of the damned, ability of the blessed to see, 81–83
relatives, wishes of the damned regarding, 81, 83
deacons, 488
the dead. See also separated souls
almsgiving on behalf of, 329–30
cleric with benefice living at school required to say office of, 319–20, 321–22
death of Christ
Christ as numerically same human being while dead, 218–19, 349–50
redemptive power of his suffering without, 218, 220–22
Decretals. See papal decrees
Decretum
bigamy, on dispensation for, 356
on children exempt from penance, 370
on children received into religious life, 370, 371, 372, 373, 373n116, 373–74n119, 375–76, 378
on Church property, 328n48
on common property, 412
on conversion of Jews, 268
on distribution of ecclesiastical ranks, 359
fallen virgin, on God’s power to restore, 395
on multiple prebends, 122
on relative perfection of secular clergy versus religious, 283
on religious vows, 269–70, 277, 278
“state,” use of, 284
deformities in life, bodies of the damned arising with, 23, 25
denunciations, 208
devil/demons
casting lots to know judgment of, 460
knowledge of human thought, 434, 435
Lucifer, as subject of the aevum, 401–5
mortal sin, substantial inhabitation of humans by evil angel during, 260, 263
Dionysius the Areopagite. See Pseudo-Dionysius
dispensations
bigamy, papal dispensation for, 354, 355–57
from commandments, 209–10
confirmation, power to confer, 172
multiple prebends without care of souls in absence of, 120, 122–25
dispositional grace, 95
disputations
decline of, xxxix–xln62
elements or parts of, xxxiv–xxxv
following riskier of two opinions, as sin, xlix, 76, 78–79
in medieval academia, xxiii–xxvii, xxxiii–xxxvi
private, xxxiv
public, xxxiv
theologians, believing false opinions held by, as sin, 264, 266–67
writings of Aquinas based on, xxxiii
dividing and combining, intellectual acts of, 488
divine nature, omnipotence, knowledge, etc. See God
divine office
cleric with benefice at school required to say office of the dead, 319–20, 321–22
compline, 488
defined, 488
matins, defined, 490
prebends in two churches with different offices on same day, 202–3
proper penance for failure to say, 305, 306–7
saying matins for next day late at night, 428–29
vespers, defined, 492
divining or fortune-telling, 459–60
Dominicans, xxviii–xxix, xxx, 212
Dominic Gundissalinus, On Unity, 103–4n32
Donatists, 445
Douay-Rheims Bible, xxii
dying person asked to disclose their state after death, 294, 297–98
dying while going on crusade versus dying while coming back from crusade, 407, 409–10
eating. See food
ecclesiastical judgments, issuing, as spiritual work, 44–45
efficient cause, 488
Empedocles, 342
empyrean heaven
composition of, 342–43
defined, 488
influence on other bodies, 335–37
enemies, the damned rejoicing in punishment of, 298, 299–300
entity, sin as, l
envy of the damned, 34
episcopacy. See prelates
essence
ability of created intellect in blessedness to see God’s essence, 156–57
accident defined by something not included in, 225
angels composed of essence and existence, 222–24
charity increased in, 119–20
Christ’s enjoyment extending to essence of his soul, 13–14
defined, 488
On Being and Essence (Thomas Aquinas), xxxii–xxxiii
one divine essence (not) counted in addition to each of the divine persons, 311–12
a thing and its essence, sameness of, 225
essence, divine
ability of created intellects in blessedness to see, 1–4
essential versus personal existence of God, 430–31
God’s comprehension of, 256
seen in Benedict’s vision, 181–82
eternity
aevum and, 399–400 (see also aevum)
angels, duration of, 131–36
of God, 134
of heavens or the world, 436
On the Eternity of the World (De Aeternitate Mundi; Thomas Aquinas), xxxix
world, proving non-eternity of, 307, 309–10
Eucharist
accidents existing without subject, 100–3
attendance at mass said by priest who is a fornicator, 172–73
confession and administration of, 198, 201–2
defined, 491
excommunicated people excluded from, 172, 173–75
form of bread, annihilation of, 405–6
love of Christ for us, in his suffering versus giving us his body as, 396, 398–99
mixing of wine with another liquid after consecration, 127, 131–33
presence of both body of Christ and bread in same instant, 16, 18–21
qualities existing without quantity, 16, 21–22
transubstantiation, 17–18, 19–20, 102, 216, 253, 405–6, 492
unconsecrated host given to unexposed sinner, 405, 406–7
use of bread in, 199
whole quantity of Christ’s body in, 16–18
Eutyches, 258
evil
as deprivation of good, 245
freedom from, as type of good, 34
God’s knowledge of, by means of good, 160–62
honoring evil prelates, 68, 70–71
On Evil (Thomas Aquinas), xxxiii
as part of intention and will, 80–81
excommunication and excommunicated people, 34, 154, 172, 173–75, 354, 357–58
existence of God, essential versus personal, 430–31
expensive clothing, wearing, xlvii
expulsion from city due to factions, 449
external senses, 488
factions, expulsion from city due to, 449–450
faith
certain adherence of heretic or bad Catholic as act of virtue of, 318–19
Christ, miracles of, 229–31
defined, 340–41
mother’s faith, child born and dying in waterless desert saved by, 315–17
profession of faith necessary for salvation, 121, 199
rule of, 266–67
family. See children, minor; parents; relatives
fasting and keeping vigil, excessive, 412, 413–14, 492
fate, 433
fear, voluntariness of things done out of, 401, 404–5
feeling or thought, blessedness as, 85–86
final cause, 488
fire, punishment of the damned with, 84–85, 243–44, 298–99, 461, 462
first tablet versus second tablet of commandments, 209–10, 274, 414–15, 418–19, 488
First Truth
defined as God, 489
intellective soul knowing everything it knows in, 141–43
flesh, knowing in the. See sexual intercourse
flood, rainbow as sign against, lx–lxi, 307–9
food
angels’ consumption of, 259
Christ (not) eating after his resurrection, 254, 258–59
converted into human nature, xliii–68
love of Christ for us, in his suffering versus giving us his body as, 396, 398–99
meat eating, as mortal sin for monks, l–li, 209, 211–13
forgiveness of sins, 248–51. See also confession and penance
formal cause, 489
form and matter. See matter and form
fornication
abstinence of one marital partner without consent of other and, 353
attendance at mass said by priest who is a fornicator, 172–73
inseparable deformity making it impossible to perform well, 123–24
intent in engaging in, 418–19
intent regarding sin and, 80–81, 121
law of God, as sin against, 78–79
as mortal sin, 274
thinking about pleasure of, lii
fortune-telling or divining, 459–60
Franciscans, lv
fraternal correction, 177–80, 207–8, 354–55
freedom and necessity, 378–79
Galanites, 349
Gauthier, René-Antoine, xxi–xxii, xxxviin58
gender
equal number of people of each gender, in absence of original sin, 300–1
man’s miraculous or natural ability to be virgin and father at same time, 333–35
Gennadius, On Church Dogmas, 117–18, 275, 437
genus and species, 90, 261, 489, 491
Gérard of Abbeville, lvi
Al-Ghazali, Metaphysics, 5–6, 90, 107–8
Glorieux, Palémon, xxiv–xxvn6
glory of the saints. See blessedness
glosses
on ability of the blessed to see God’s essence, 156–57
on almsgiving, 326
on children received into religious life, 382
on consenting to pleasure, as sin, 459
on counsels of religious life, 384
on counsels of religious life and commandments, 384–85, 390
on the damned taking comfort from punishment of enemies, 299
on desire for temporal versus spiritual things, 242
distribution of benefices and, 322–23
on evil prelates, 70
on fate, 434
on heresy and heretics, 154–55
on honoring wealthy people, 149, 150
on knowledge of charity or any other disposition, by those who lack it, 60
on life/existence, 95
on manual labor versus spiritual works, 34, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46–47, 48–49
on Peter’s denial of Christ, 121
on praying for oneself versus someone else, 72, 73
on reaching state of apostleship and evangelical perfection, 419
relative perfection of secular clergy versus religious and, 284–85, 287
on religious vows, 273
on truth, 142
on wearing expensive clothing, 152, 153
on young people taking religious vows, 269
God. See also essence, divine; omnipotence/power of God; Trinity
ability to make matter exist without form, 252–53
ability to make same body be located in two places at once, 252, 253
acting in an instant, 116
created intellect’s ability to see divine essence directly, 1–4
essential versus personal existence of, 430–31
eternity of, 135–36
evil by means of good, knowledge of, 160–62
First Truth defined as, 489
ideas of, xl–xli, 52, 55–57, 338–39
immeasurability, divine, 14–15
infinity of, 158–60
infinity of things, ability to make, 88–91
knowledge, divine, xxxix, 160–62, 392–94
measure of every substance as substance of, 399–400
nature of, xxxvii–xli, 52–55, 181–82, 252–54
number six, as creator or creature, xxxix–xl, 52–55
one divine essence (not) counted in addition to each of the divine persons, 311–12
oneness of, as affirmation versus negation, 127–29
power, God the Father as, 248
predestination and mercy of, 162–64
sin, as turning away from God versus turning toward a changeable good, 330, 331–32, 418
sin against law of, 78–79
uttering himself and creation by same word, 346–47
good
common or public good versus private good, 273, 282
evil as deprivation of, 245
existence and, 223
forgiveness of sins, good done for, 305–6
freedom from evil as type of, 34
God’s knowledge of evil by means of, 160–62
Holy Spirit, as goodness, 248
sin, as turning away from God versus turning toward a changeable good, 330, 331–32, 418
teaching drawing people away from greater good, recanting, 423, 424–25
grace, xlv
of adoption, 489
charity increased in essence, 119–20
commandments and counsels, matters related to, 144–49
continuous infusion of, 350–51
dispositional, 95
Holy Spirit inhabiting human beings with, 263
praying for oneself versus someone else, 71–73
prelates, questions relating to, 68–71
simple vow of continence dissolving marriage contract, 71, 75–76
of union, 489
Greek Orthodox, 363
Gregory I the Great (pope)
on ability of the blessed to see God’s essence, 156–57
on bodily things administered by spiritual substances, 113–14
on bribes, 422–23
on children received into religious life, 369, 370, 371, 375–76, 379, 380
on children saved by faith of parents, 315
on contemplative versus active life, 287–88
on counsels of religious life and commandments, 385, 386n176
divine essence, on St. Benedict’s vision of, 181, 182
on glorified bodies, 215
on good, 425
insults, on tolerating, 426
on Lucifer, 400
on martyrdom, 365
on moral virtues, 448–49
on obedience, 207
on original sin, 300–1, 401, 402–3
on perfection of charity, 283–84
on Peter’s denial of Christ, 121
power, on accepting versus declining, 421–22
on proof of love as action, 413
on reaching state of apostleship and evangelical perfection, 419, 420–21
on redemptive power of Christ’s death, 220
on reputation, 152
on scripture, 33
on spiritual work, 46–47, 50–51
superiority, on desire for, 265
on teachers and students, 264
transmission of souls and, 437
on truth, 425
on wearing expensive clothing, 152, 153
Gregory I the Great (pope), works
Commentary on Ezekiel, 46–47
Dialogues, 113–14, 420–21, 454
Homilies on Ezekiel, 152, 283–84, 369, 385, 419
Morals, 33, 121, 215, 220, 287–88, 300–1, 371, 380, 401, 421
Pastoral Rule, 264, 421–22, 425
Guido de Monte Rocherii, Manipulus curatorum, lx
heavens/heavenly bodies. See also empyrean heaven
eternity of, 436
soul, possession of, 436