Tables of Contents for Truth

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Preface

Introduction

xiii

Truth

What is truth?

Is truth found principally in the intellect or in things?

Is truth only in the intellect joining and separating?

Is there only one truth by which all things are true?

Is some truth besides the First Truth enternal?

Is created truth immutable?

Is truth as applied to God predicated personally or essentially?

Is every other truth from the First Truth?

Is truth in sense?

Is there any false thing?

Is falsity in sense?

Is falsity in the intellect?

God's Knowledge

Is there knowledge in God?

Does God know or understand Himself?

Does God know things other than Himself?

Does God have proper and determinate knowledge of things?

Does God know singular things?

Does the human intellect know singulars?

Does God know the singular as now existing or not existing?

Does God know non-beings, and things which are not, have not been, and will not be?

Does God know infinites?

100

Can God make infinites?

106

Is knowledge predicated of God and man purely equivocally?

110

Does God know singular future contingents?

115

Does God's knowledge change?

124

Is God's knowledge the cause of things?

129

Does God have knowledge of evil things?

133

Ideas

Are there ideas in God?

136

Are there many ideas?

144

Do ideas belong to speculative or only to practical knowledge?

150

Is there in God an idea of evil?

156

Is there in God and idea of first matter?

159

Are there ideas in God of those things which do not exist, will not exist, and have not existed?

161

Are there in God ideas of accidents?

163

Are there in God ideas of singulars?

165

The Divine Word

Can there be a word, properly speaking, in God?

168

Is ``Word'' predicated of God essentially or only personally?

176

Is ``Word'' a proper name of the Holy Spirit?

182

Does the Father utter all creatures in the Word by which He utters Himself?

184

Does the Word imply a relation to creatures?

188

Do things exist more truly in the Word or in themselves?

193

Is the Word related to those things which do not exist, will not exist, and never have existed?

196

Are all created things life in the Word?

197

Providence

To which attribute can God's providence be reduced?

200

Is the world ruled by providence?

207

Does God's providence extend to corruptible things?

212

Are the motions and actions of all bodies here below subject to divine providence?

216

Are human acts ruled by providence?

221

Are brute animals and their acts subject to God's providence?

225

Are sinners ruled by God's providence?

227

Are all material creatures governed by God's providence through angles?

229

Does divine providence dispose bodies here below by means of the celestial bodies?

236

Are human acts governed by God's providence through the instrumentality of celestial bodies?

247

Predestination

Does predestination belong to knowledge of will?

253

Is foreknowledge of merits the cause of or reason for predestination?

260

Is predestination certain?

267

Is the number of predestined certain?

275

Are the predestined certain of their predestination?

281

Can predestination be helped by the prayers of the saints?

282

The Book of Life

Is the Book of Life a created thing?

287

Is the Book of Life predicated of God personally or essentially?

293

Can the Book of Life be appropriated to the Son?

296

Is the Book of Life the same as predestination?

298

Is the Book of Life spoken of in relation to uncreated life?

299

Is the Book of Life spoken of in relation to the natural life of creatures?

302

Does the Book of Life used without qualification refer to the life of grace?

304

Can we speak of a Book of Death as we speak of a Book of Life?

306

The Knowledge of Angels

Do the angels see God through His essence?

309

Do the intellects of beatified angels and men comprehend the divine essence?

316

Can an angel by means of his own natural powers attain the vision of God through His essence?

321

Does an angel, seeing God through His essence, know all things?

329

Is the vision of things in the Word had through like-nesses of them existing in the angelic intellects?

339

Does an angel know himself?

342

Does one angel know another?

347

Does an angel know material things through forms or by knowing his own essence?

356

Are the forms by which angels know material things innate or received from things?

360

Do higher angels know by forms more universal than those by which lower angles know?

366

Do angels know singulars?

369

Do angels know the future?

375

Can angels know the heart's secrets?

380

Can angels know many things at the same time?

383

Is angel's knowledge of things discursive?

391

Should morning knowledge be distinguished from evening knowledge in angels?

396

Is an angel's knowledge adequately divided into morning and evening knowledge?

403

The Communication of Angelic Knowledge

Does one angel illumine another?

407

Is an inferior angel always illumined by a superior angel or is he sometimes illumined directly by God?

415

Does one angel cleanse another when he illumines him?

418

Does one angel speak to another?

422

Do the inferior angels speak to the superior?

428

Is a determinate local distance required in order that one angel can speak to another?

431

Can one angel speak to another in such a way that others will not know what he is saying?

433

Aids to References

437

References

439

Glossary

465

Preface

The Mind

Is the mind, as containing within itself the image of the Trinity, the essence of the soul or one of its powers?

Is there memory in the mind?

Is there memory distinguished from understanding as one power from another?

Does the mind know material things?

Can our mind know material things in their singularity?

Does the human mind receive knowledge from sensible things?

Is the image of the Trinity in the mind as it knows material things or only as it knows eternal things?

Does the mind know itself through its essence or through some species?

Is it through their essence or through some likeness that our mind knows habits which exist in the soul?

Can one know that he has charity?

Can the mind in this life see God through His essence?

Is God's existence self-evedent to the human mind, just as first principles of demonstration, which cannot be thought not to exist?

Can the Trinity of persons in God be known by natural reason?

The Teacher

Can a man or only God teach and be called teacher?

Can one be called his own teacher?

Can a man be taught by an angel?

Is teaching an activity of the contemplative or the active life?

Prophecy

is prophecy a habit or an act?

102

Does prophecy deal with conclusions which can be known scientifically?

110

Is prophecy natural?

114

Is some natural disposition needed for prophecy?

125

Is moral goodness required for prophecy?

128

Do the prophets see in the mirror of eternity?

132

Does God in the revelation made to a prophet imprint on the mind of the prophet new species of things or only intellectual light?

139

Does all prophetic revelation take place through the mediation of an angel?

145

Does a prophet always lose sense-consciousness when he is under the influence of the spirit of prophecy?

147

Is prophecy suitably divided into prophecy of predestination, foreknowledge, and threats?

152

Is there unchangeable truth in Prophecy?

159

Is the prophecy which is according to the sight of understanding alone higher than that which has the sight of understanding alone higher than that which has the sight of understanding together with imagination?

163

Are the grades of prophecy distinguished according to the sight of imagination?

171

Was Moses more outstanding than other prophets?

176

Rapture

What is papture?

180

Did paul see God through His essence when he was enraptured?

186

Can one in this life have his understanding raised to see God through His essence without being carried out of his senses?

190

How great an abstraction is required for our understanding to be albel to see God through His essence?

198

What did the Apostle know and not know about his rapture?

203

Faith

What is belief?

207

What is faith?

213

Is a faith a virtue?

221

What is the subject in which faith exists?

227

Is charity the form of faith?

230

Is formless faith a virtue?

236

Is the habit of formless faith the same as that of formed faith?

238

Is first truth the proper object of faith?

242

Can faith deal with things which are known as scientific conclusions?

247

Is it necessary for man to have faith?

252

Is it necessary to believe explicitly?

258

Is there one faith for moderns and ancients?

264

Higher and Lower Reason

Are understanding and reason different powers in man?

267

Are higher and lower reason different powers?

278

Can sin exist in higher or lower reason?

287

Is deliberate pleasure in bad thoughts (delectatio morosa), which exists in the lower part of reason through consent to the pleasure but without consent to the deed, a mortal sin?

291

Can venial sin exist in higher reason?

298

Synderesis

Is synderesis a power or a habit?

300

Can synderesis err (peccare)?

308

Are there some in whom synderesis is extinguished?

311

Conscience

Is conscience a power, a habit, or an act?

314

Can conscience be mistaken?

322

Does conscience bind?

326

Does a false conscience bind?

329

Does conscience in indifferent matters bind more than the command of a superior, or less?

335

The Knowledge of the First Man in the State of Innocence

Did man in that state know God through His essence?

338

Did man in that state of innocence see God through creatures?

346

Did Adam in the state of innocence have faith about God?

350

Did Adam in the state of innocence have knowledge of all creatures?

352

Did Adam in the state of innocence see the angels through their essence?

359

Could Adam in the state of innocence be mistaken or deceived?

367

Would the children who were born of Adam in the state of innocence have had full knowledge of all things, as Adam did?

374

In the state of innocence would children have had the full use of reason immediately at birth?

378

Knowledge of the Soul after Death

Can the soul understand after death?

383

Does the separated soul know singulars?

393

The Knowledge of Christ

Should we say that there is created knowledge in Christ?

396

Did the soul of Christ see the Word through a habit?

401

Does Christ have other knowledge of things than that by which He knows them in the Word?

405

Does the soul of Christ know in the Word all that the Word knows?

409

Does the soul of Christ now all that God could make?

418

Does the soul of Christ know everything with that knowledge by which it knows things in their proper nature?

423

Aids to References

427

References

429

Glossary

456

Preface

God

Does good add anything to being?

Are being and good interchangeable as to their real subjects?

Is good in its essential character prior to the true?

Is everything good by the first goodness?

Is a created good good by its essence?

Does the good of a creature consist in measure, species, and order as Augustine says?

The Tendency to Good and the Will

Do all things tend to good?

Do all things tend to God Himself?

Is appetite a special power of the soul?

In rational beings is will a power distinct from sense appetite?

Does the will anything necessarily?

Does the will necessarily will whatever it wills?

Does a person merit by willing what he wills necessarily?

Can God force the will?

Can any creature changes the will or influence it?

Are will and intellect the same Power?

Is the will a higher power than the intellect, or is the opposite true?

Does the will move the intellect and the other powers of the soul?

Is intention an act of the will?

Does the will in the same motion will the end and intend the means?

Is Choice an act of the will?

God's Will

Does it belong to God to have a will?

Can the divine will be distinguished into antecedent and consequent?

Is God's will suitably divided into His embracing will and His indicative will?

103

Does God of necessity will whatever He will?

107

Does the divine will impose necessity upon the things willed?

115

Does justice as found among created things depend simply upon the divine will?

118

Are we obliged to conform our will to the divine will?

121

Are we obliged to conform our will to the divine will as regards its object so as to be bound to will what we know God wills?

128

Free choice

Is man endowed with free choice?

133

Is there free choice in brutes?

144

Is there free choice in God?

148

Is free choice a power or not?

151

Is free choice one power or several?

157

Is free choice the will or a power other than the will?

159

Can there be any creature which has its free choice naturally confirmed in good?

162

Can the free choice of a creature be confirmed in good by a gift of grace?

167

Can the free choice of man in this present life be confirmed in good?

171

Can the free choice of any creature be obstinate or unalterably hardened in evil?

174

Can the free choice of man in this present life be obstinate in evil?

183

Can free choice in the state of mortal sin avoid mortal sin without grace?

188

Can a person in the state of grace avoid mortal sin?

201

Is free choice capable of good without grace?

203

Can man without grace prepare himself to have grace?

207

Sensuality

Is sensuality a cognitive or only an appetitive power?

210

Is sensuality one simple power or is it divided into several: the irascible and the concupiscible powers?

216

Are the irascible and the concupiscible powers only in the lower appetite or also in the higher?

221

Does sensuality obey reason?

225

Can there be sin in sensuality?

228

Is the concupiscible power more corrupt and infected than the irascible?

232

Can sensuality be cured in this life of the aforesaid corruption?

236

The Passion of the Soul

How does the soul suffer when saparated from the body?

239

How does the soul suffer while joined to the body?

249

Is passion only in the sense appetitive power?

252

On What grounds are the contrariety and diversity among the passion of the soul based?

261

Are hope, fear, joy, and sadness the four principal passions of the soul?

267

Do we merit by our passions?

273

Does a passion accompanying a meritorious act detract from its merit?

281

Were there any such passions in Christ?

286

Was the passion of pain in the soul of Christ as regards higher reason?

292

Did the pain of the passion which was in Christ's higher reason prevent the joy of fruition, and conversely?

298

Grace

Is Grace something created which is in the soul positively?

307

Is ingratiatory grace the same as charity?

312

Can any creature be the cause of grace?

316

Are the sacraments of the New Law the cause of grace?

326

In one man is there only one ingratiatory grace?

336

Is grace in the essence of the soul?

345

Is grace in the sacraments?

348

the Justification of Sinners

Is the justification of sinners the forgiveness of sins?

351

Can there be forgiveness of sins without grace?

356

Does the justification of sinners require free choice?

364

What motion of free choice is needed for justification: Is a motion toward God required?

375

In the justification of sinners is a motion of free choice toward sin required?

380

Are the infusion of grace and the forgiveness of guilt the same?

383

Does the forgiveness of guilt naturally precede the infusion of grace?

385

In the justification of sinners does the motion of free choice naturally precede the infusion of grace?

390

Is the justification of sinners instantaneous?

396

the grace of Christ

is there created grace in Christ?

403

For Christ's human nature to be united personally to the World is habitual grace required?

408

Is the grace of Christ infinite?

410

Does the grace of headship belong to Christ in His human nature?

415

Is any habitual grace required in Christ for Him to be the head?

422

Could Christ merit?

426

Could Christ merit for others?

429

Could Christ merit in the first instant of his conception?

434

Aids to References

443

References

447

Glossary

480

Index

490