Contents

Faith
1. Scope of the Present Work
2. Arrangement of Topics Concerning Faith

The Divine Trinity
3. Existence of God
4. Immobility of God
5. Eternity of God
6. Necessity of God’s Existence
7. Everlasting Existence of God
8. Absence of Succession in God
9. Simplicity of God
10. Identity of God with His Essence
11. Identity of Essence and Existence in God
12. God Not Contained under Any Genus
13. God Not a Genus
14. God Not a Species Predicated of Individuals
15. Unicity of God
16. God Not a Body
17. God Neither the Form of a Body Nor a Force in a Body
18. Infinity of God According to Essence
19. Infinite Power of God
20. Absence of Imperfection in God’s Infinity
21. Eminent Existence in God of All Perfections Found in Creatures
22. Unity of All Perfections in God
23. Absence of Accidents in God
24. God’s Simplicity Not Contradicted by the Multiplicity of Names Applied to Him
25. Names of God Not Synonymous
26. Impossibility of Defining God
27. Analogy of Terms Predicated of God and of Other Beings
28. Intelligence of God
29. God’s Intelligence Not Potential or Habitual but Actual
30. God’s Essence the Only Species in His Understanding
31. Identity Between God and His Intelligence
32. Volition of God
33. Identity of God’s Will with His Intellect
34. Identity Between God’s Will and His Willing
35. Foregoing Truths Embraced in One Article of Faith
36. Philosophical Character of this Doctrine
37. Word in God
38. Word as Conception
39. Relation of the Word to the Father
40. Generation in God
41. Son Equal to the Father in Existence and Essence
42. Teaching in Catholic Faith
43. Divine Word Not Distinct from the Father in Time, Species, or Nature
44. Conclusion from the Foregoing
45. God in Himself as Beloved in Lover
46. Love in God as Spirit
47. Holiness of the Spirit in God
48. Love in God Not Accidental
49. Procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son
50. Trinity of Divine Persons and the Unity of the Divine Essence
51. Seeming Contradiction in the Trinity
52. Solution of the Difficulty: Distinction in God According to Relations
53. Nature of the Relations Whereby the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit Are Distinguished
54. Relations in God Not Accidental
55. Personal Distinction in God Through the Relations
56. Impossibility of More than Three Persons in God
57. Properties of the Father
58. Properties of the Son and the Holy Spirit
59. Why These Properties Are Called Notions
60. Number of Relations and the Number of Persons
61. Dependence of the Hypostases on the Personal Properties
62. Effect of Intellectual Removal of Personal Properties on the Divine Essence
63. Personal Acts and Personal Properties
64. Generation with Respect to the Father and with Respect to the Son
65. Nature of the Distinction Between Notional Acts and Notional Properties
66. Identity Between the Relative Properties and the Divine Essence
67. Divine Properties Not Externally Affixed
68. Effects Produced by God
69. Creation from Nothing
70. Creation Possible for God Alone
71. Matter Not the Cause of Diversity in Things
72. Cause of Diversity
73. Diversity in Things According to Degree and Order
74. Incorporeal Substances Requisite for the Perfection of the Universe
75. Intellectual Substances
76. Freedom of Choice in Intellectual Substances
77. Order and Degree among Intellectual Beings
78. Order and Degree in Intellectual Operation
79. Inferiority of Man’s Intellectual Nature
80. Different Kinds of Intellect and Ways of Understanding
81. Reception of Intelligible Forms in the Possible Intellect
82. Man’s Need of Sense Faculties for Understanding
83. Necessity of the Agent Intellect
84. Incorruptibility of the Human Soul
85. Unity of the Possible Intellect
86. Agent Intellect Not One in All Men
87. Possible Intellect and the Agent Intellect as Residing in the Essence of the Soul
88. Way These Two Faculties Are United in the Same Essence of the Soul
89. Radication of All the Faculties in the Essence of the Soul
90. Unicity of the Soul
91. Arguments Advanced to Show a Multiplicity of Souls in Man
92. Refutation of the Preceding Objections
93. Production of the Rational Soul
94. Rational Soul Not Derived from God’s Substance
95. Immediate Creation by God
96. Voluntariness of God’s Activity
97. Immutability of God in His Activity
98. Question of the Eternity of Motion
99. Controversy on the Eternity of Matter
100. Finality of God’s Creative Activity
101. Divine Goodness as the Ultimate End the Reason for Diversity in Things
102. Reason for Diversity in Things
103. Divine Goodness as the End of All Action and Movement in Creatures
104. End of the Intellectual Creature
105. Knowledge of the Divine Essence by the Created Intellect
106. Fruition of Natural Desire in the Beatific Vision
107. Beatitude Essentially in the Act of the Intellect
108. Error of Placing Happiness in Creatures
109. Essential Goodness of God and the Participated Goodness of Creatures
110. God’s Goodness Incapable of Being Lost
111. Insecurity of the Creature’s Goodness
112. Defectibility of the Creature’s Goodness in Activity
113. Twofold Principle of Activity and the Possibility of Defect Therein
114. Meaning of Good and Evil in Things
115. Impossibility of an Evil Nature
116. Good and Evil as Specific Differences and as Contraries
117. Impossibility of Essential or Supreme Evil
118. Foundation of Evil in Good as its Substratum
119. Two Kinds of Evil
120. Three Kinds of Action, and the Evil of Sin
121. Evil of Punishment
122. Punishment Variously Opposed to the Will
123. Universality of Divine Providence
124. God’s Plan of Ruling Lower Creatures by Higher Creatures
125. Government of Lower Intellectual Substances by Higher Intellectual Substances
126. Rank and Order of the Angels
127. Control of Lower Bodies, but Not of the Human Intellect, by Higher Bodies
128. Indirect Influence of Heavenly Bodies on the Human Intellect Through the Senses
129. Movement of Man’s Will by God
130. Government of the World by God
131. Immediate Disposing of All Things by God
132. Objections to God’s Particular Providence
133. Solution of the Foregoing Objections
134. God’s Detailed Knowledge of Contingent Futures
135. God’s Existence in All Things by Power, Essence, and Presence
136. Working of Miracles Proper to God Alone
137. Fortuitous Events
138. Fate and its Nature
139. Contingency of Some Effects
140. Divine Providence Compatible with Contingency
141. Providence and Evil
142. God’s Goodness and the Permission of Evil
143. God’s Special Providence over Man by Grace
144. Remission of Sin by the Gifts of Grace
145. No Sin Unforgivable
146. Remission of Sin by God Alone
147. Some Articles of Faith on the Effects of Divine Government
148. All Creation for Man
149. Ultimate End of Man
150. Consummation of Man in Eternity
151. Reunion with the Body Requisite for the Soul’s Perfect Happiness
152. Separation of the Body from the Soul Both Natural and Contrary to Nature
153. Soul’s Resumption of the Same Body
154. Miraculous Nature of the Resurrection
155. Resurrection to New Life
156. Cessation of Nutrition and Reproduction after the Resurrection
157. Resurrection of All the Bodily Members
158. Absence of Defects in the Resurrection
159. Resurrection Restricted to What Is Necessary for True Human Nature
160. God’s Action in Supplying What Is Lacking in the Body
161. Solution of Possible Objections
162. Resurrection of the Dead as an Article of Faith
163. Nature of Risen Man’s Activity
164. Vision of God in His Essence
165. Supreme Perfection and Happiness in the Vision of God
166. Confirmation in Good in the Beatific Vision
167. Complete Subjection of the Body to the Soul
168. Qualities of the Glorified Body
169. Renovation of Man and of Material Nature
170. Renovation Restricted to Certain Classes of Creatures
171. Cessation of Motion in Heavenly Bodies
172. Man’s Reward or Misery According to His Works
173. Reward and Misery Postponed to the next World
174. Wretchedness Flowing from the Punishment of Loss
175. Forgiveness of Sin in the next World
176. Properties of the Bodies of the Damned
177. Suffering Compatible with Incorruptibility in the Bodies of the Damned
178. Punishment of the Damned Prior to the Resurrection
179. Spiritual and Corporal Punishment of the Damned
180. Soul and Corporeal Fire
181. Punishments of Purgatory for Unexpiated Mortal Sins
182. Punishment in Purgatory for Venial Sins
183. Eternal Punishment for Momentary Sin Not Incompatible with Divine Justice
184. Eternal Lot of Other Spiritual Substances Comparable with That of Souls

Humanity of Christ
185. Faith in the Humanity of Christ
186. Commands Laid on the First Man, and His Perfection in the Pristine State
187. State of Original Justice
188. Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
189. Seduction of Eve by the Devil
190. Woman’s Sin
191. Man’s Sin
192. Effect of the Sin as Regards the Rebellion of the Lower Faculties Against Reason
193. Punishment as Regards the Necessity of Dying
194. Evils Affecting Intellect and Will
195. Transmission of These Evils to Posterity
196. Privation of Original Justice as Sin in Adam’s Descendants
197. Not All Sins Transmitted to Posterity
198. Insufficiency of Adams Merit to Restore Nature
199. Reparation of Human Nature by Christ
200. Restoration of Man by God Through the Incarnation
201. Other Reasons for the Incarnation
202. Error of Photinus Concerning the Incarnation
203. Error of Nestorius about the Incarnation
204. Error of Arius About the Incarnation
205. Error of Apollinaris in Regard to the Incarnation
206. Error of Eutyches Regarding Union in Nature
207. Refutation of the Manichaean Error Concerning the Nature of Christ’s Body
208. Reality of Christ’s Earthly Body, Against Valentinus
209. Teaching of Faith about the Incarnation
210. Exclusion of Two Supposita in Christ
211. One Suppositum and One Person in Christ
212. Unity and Multiplicity in Christ
213. Perfection of Grace and Wisdom in Christ
214. Fullness of Christ’s Grace
215. Infinitude of Christ’s Grace
216. Fullness of Christ’s Wisdom
217. Matter of Christ’s Body
218. Formation of Christ’s Body
219. Cause of the Formation of Christ’s Body
220. Explanation of the Article in the Creed on the Conception and Birth of Christ
221. Christ’s Birth from a Virgin
222. Mother of Christ
223. Holy Spirit Not the Father of Christ
224. Sanctification of Christ’s Mother
225. Perpetual Virginity of Christ’s Mother
226. Defects Assumed by Christ
227. Why Christ Willed to Die
228. Death of the Cross
229. Death of Christ
230. Voluntary Character of Christ’s Death
231. Passion of Christ as Regards His Body
232. Passibility of Christ’s Soul
233. Prayer of Christ
234. Burial of Christ
235. Descent of Christ into Hell
236. Resurrection of Christ
237. Qualities of the Risen Christ
238. Arguments Demonstrating Christ’s Resurrection
239. Twofold Life Restored in Man by Christ
240. Twofold Reward of Christ’s Humiliation
241. Christ as Judge
242. All Judgment Given to the Son
243. Universality of the Judgment
244. Procedure and Place of the Judgment
245. Role of the Saints in the Judgment
246. Foregoing Teachings Comprised in Articles of Faith

Hope
1. Necessity of the Virtue of Hope
2. Prayer and Hope
3. Lord’s Prayer
4. Why We must Pray to God for What We Hope
5. Why We Are to Say “Our Father,” not “My Father”
6. God’s Power to Grant Our Petitions
7. Objects of Hope
8. First Petition: Desire for Perfect Knowledge of God
9. Second Petition: Prayer for Participation in God’s Glory
10. Possibility of Reaching the Kingdom

. . .it is here where St. Thomas Aquinas’ work on earth is ended by his deat