- Summa Theologica - 08 Pars Prima Secundae, Treatise on Habits, Virtues and Vices
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
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The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the Protestant Reformation, subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God's creation, Man, Man's purpose, Christ, the Sacraments, and back to God.
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- Chapters
- Question 49 - OF HABITS IN GENERAL, AS TO THEIR SUBSTANCE (In Four Articles)
- Question 50 - OF THE SUBJECT OF HABITS (In Six Articles)
- Question 51 - OF THE CAUSE OF HABITS, AS TO THEIR FORMATION (In Four Articles)
- Question 52 - OF THE INCREASE OF HABITS (In Three Articles)
- Question 53 - HOW HABITS ARE CORRUPTED OR DIMINISHED (In Three Articles)
- Question 54 - OF THE DISTINCTION OF HABITS (In Four Articles)
- Question 55 - OF THE VIRTUES, AS TO THEIR ESSENCE (In Four Articles)
- Question 56 - OF THE SUBJECT OF VIRTUE (In Six Articles)
- Question 57 - OF THE INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES (In Six Articles)
- Question 58 - OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES (In Five Articles)
- Question 59 - OF MORAL VIRTUE IN RELATION TO THE PASSIONS (In Five Articles)
- Question 60 - HOW THE MORAL VIRTUES DIFFER FROM ONE ANOTHER (In Five Articles)
- Question 61 - OF THE CARDINAL VIRTUES (In Five Articles)
- Question 62 - OF THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES (In Four Articles)
- Question 63 - OF THE CAUSE OF VIRTUES (In Four Articles)
- Question 64 - OF THE MEAN OF VIRTUE (In Four Articles)
- Question 65 - OF THE CONNECTION OF VIRTUES (In Five Articles)
- Question 66 - OF EQUALITY AMONG THE VIRTUES (In Six Articles)
- Question 67 - OF THE DURATION OF VIRTUES AFTER THIS LIFE (In Six Articles)
- Question 68 - OF THE GIFTS (In Eight Articles)
- Question 69 - OF THE BEATITUDES (In Four Articles)
- Question 70 - OF THE FRUITS OF THE HOLY GHOST (In Four Articles)
- Question 71 - OF VICE AND SIN CONSIDERED IN THEMSELVES (In Six Articles)
- Question 72 - OF THE DISTINCTION OF SINS (In Nine Articles)
- Question 73 - OF THE COMPARISON OF ONE SIN WITH ANOTHER (In Ten Articles), part 1
- Question 73 - OF THE COMPARISON OF ONE SIN WITH ANOTHER (In Ten Articles), part 2
- Question 74 - OF THE SUBJECT OF SIN (In Ten Articles), part 1
- Question 74 - OF THE SUBJECT OF SIN (In Ten Articles), part 2
- Question 75 - OF THE CAUSES OF SIN, IN GENERAL (In Four Articles)
- Question 76 - OF THE CAUSES OF SIN, IN PARTICULAR (In Four Articles)
- Question 77 - OF THE CAUSE OF SIN, ON THE PART OF THE SENSITIVE APPETITE (In Eight Articles)
- Question 78 - OF THAT CAUSE OF SIN WHICH IS MALICE (In Four Articles)
- Question 79 - OF THE EXTERNAL CAUSES OF SIN (In Four Articles)
- Question 80 - OF THE CAUSE OF SIN, AS REGARDS THE DEVIL (In Four Articles)
- Question 81 - OF THE CAUSE OF SIN, ON THE PART OF MAN (In Five Articles)
- Question 82 - OF ORIGINAL SIN, AS TO ITS ESSENCE (In Four Articles)
- Question 83 - OF THE SUBJECT OF ORIGINAL SIN (In Four Articles)
- Question 84 - OF THE CAUSE OF SIN, IN RESPECT OF ONE SIN BEING THE CAUSE OF ANOTHER (In Four Articles)
- Question 85 - OF THE EFFECTS OF SIN, AND FIRST, OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE GOOD OF NATURE (In Six Articles)
- Question 86 - OF THE STAIN OF SIN (In Two Articles)
- Question 87 - OF THE DEBT OF PUNISHMENT (In Eight Articles)
- Question 88 - OF VENIAL AND MORTAL SIN (In Six Articles)
- Question 89 - OF VENIAL SIN IN ITSELF (In Six Articles)
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