Quodlibet III

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet XII, which dates from his second Parisian regency (the second time Aquinas functioned as a master in Paris). It contains Aquinas’s answers to questions about were about God, angels, and heaven. Specifically, the questions deal with: God’s existence; God’s power; God’s predestination; angels; the heavens; the human soul; human knowledge; consequences of human knowledge; the sacrament of baptism: the sacrament of penance; an effect of the sacraments; the identity of the Church; the intellectual virtue of truth; the moral virtues; restitution: the office of commentators on sacred scripture; the office of preachers; the office of confessors; the office of vicars; original sin; actual sins of thought; actual sins of action; and punishments.

Quodlibet VI

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet VI, which dates from his second Parisian regency (the second time Aquinas functioned as a master in Paris). It contains Aquinas’s answers to questions about God, angels, human beings, and purely bodily creatures. Specifically, the questions deal with: God: Is the one divine essence counted in addition to each one of the divine persons?; angels: Do they do whatever they do by a command of their will? The second was about their location? Can they be on the top of the empyrean heaven (which was also asked about glorified bodies?; the sacrament of baptism; faith; relating to religion or worship: obedience; alms given by clerics; alms given on behalf of the dead; sins; bodily things; and purely bodily creatures.

Quodlibet II

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet V, which dates from his second Parisian regency (the second time Aquinas functioned as a master in Paris). It contains Aquinas’s answers to questions about God, angels, and human beings. Specifically, the questions deal with: God’s knowledge; God’s power; God’s assumed nature; angels: Is Lucifer the subject of the aevum?; human nature; the sacrament of the Eucharist: Is the form of bread annihilated? Should a priest give an unconsecrated host to an unexposed sinner who asks him to do so?; the sacrament of penance; the sacrament of marriage; relating to the virtues; relating to the commandments; relating to prelates; relating to teachers; relating to religious; and relating to clerics.

Quodlibet X

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet III, which dates from his second Parisian regency (the second time Aquinas functioned as a master in Paris). It contains Aquinas’s answers to questions about God, angels, human beings, and purely bodily creatures. Specifically, the questions deal with: God’s divine nature; God’s assumed human nature; angels; teachers of sacred scripture; becoming a religious: Is it permissible to lead young people to enter the religious life through the obligation of an oath or vow?; being a religious: Can religious (who ought not to have anything of their own either alone or together) give alms from the things that other people give them as alms?; relating to the laity; the soul’s substance; the soul’s knowledge; the soul’s punishment; the body; conscience; penance; and purely bodily creatures.

Quodlibet XII

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet XII, which dates from his second Parisian regency (the second time Aquinas functioned as a master in Paris). It contains Aquinas’s answers to questions about were about God, angels, and heaven. Specifically, the questions deal with: God’s existence; God’s power; God’s predestination; angels; the heavens; the human soul; human knowledge; consequences of human knowledge; the sacrament of baptism: the sacrament of penance; an effect of the sacraments; the identity of the Church; the intellectual virtue of truth; the moral virtues; restitution: the office of commentators on sacred scripture; the office of preachers; the office of confessors; the office of vicars; original sin; actual sins of thought; actual sins of action; and punishments.

Quodlibet I

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet IV, which dates from his second Parisian regency (the second time Aquinas functioned as a master in Paris). It contains Aquinas’s answers to questions about divine things and personal things. Specifically, the questions deal with: God’s knowledge: Does God have multiple ideas?; God’s power: Does God have power? Are there waters above the heavens?; the extent of God’s power; the son’s divine nature; the son’s assumed nature; grace; the sacraments of grace; human acts related to superiors and prelates; human acts related to the intellect; the act of martyrdom; evil acts; and the religious life.

Quodlibet IX

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet II, which dates from his second Parisian regency (the second time Aquinas functioned as a master in Paris). It contains Aquinas’s answers questions about Christ, angels, and human beings. Specifically, the questions deal with Christ: Was Christ numerically the same human being during the three days he was dead? Would any of Christ’s suffering have been enough to redeem the human race without his death?; the composition of angels: Is an angel substantially composed of essence and existence? Is there a difference between an angelic subject and its nature?; the time of the movement of angels; virtues related to divine matters; virtues related to human matters; sins; punishments for sins; and forgiveness of sins.

Quodlibet VII

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet XI, which dates from the first time that Aquinas functioned as a master of theology at the University of Paris. It contains Aquinas’s answers to questions about God, angels, and human beings. Specifically, it deals with: God’s infinity; God’s knowledge; God’s predestination; angels: Do they move in an instant?; the human soul: Are the sensitive and intellective soul one and the same substance?; the human body: Will the numerically same body rise again?; the sacrament of confirmation; the sacrament of the Eucharist; the sacrament of marriage; and fraternal correction.

Quodlibet VIII

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet I, which dates from his second Parisian regency (the second time Aquinas functioned as a master in Paris). It contains Aquinas’s answers to questions about God, angels, and human beings. Specifically, the questions deal with God’s divine nature: Did blessed Benedict see the divine essence in his vision of the whole world?; God’s assumed human nature: Was Christ related to the Father and to his mother by one sonship or two? Did Christ die on the cross?; angels: Does an angel’s essence depend upon a bodily place, or is an angel only in a place by virtue of its activity? Can an angel move from place to place without passing through the space in between?; human nature; contrition; confession; relating to clerics; relating to religious; sin; and glory.

Quodlibet V

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet V, which dates from his second Parisian regency (the second time Aquinas functioned as a master in Paris). It contains Aquinas’s answers to questions about God, angels, and human beings. Specifically, the questions deal with: God’s knowledge; God’s power; God’s assumed nature; angels: Is Lucifer the subject of the aevum?; human nature; the sacrament of the Eucharist: Is the form of bread annihilated? Should a priest give an unconsecrated host to an unexposed sinner who asks him to do so?; the sacrament of penance; the sacrament of marriage; relating to the virtues; relating to the commandments; relating to prelates; relating to teachers; relating to religious; and relating to clerics.