Notice to the Reader The Full Introduction (a fuller version of the one published herein), extensive commentary in the form of ?webnotes,? and a bibliography are all available at the website of the Catholic University of America Press (http://cuapress.cua.edu). This printed volume contains an abbreviated introduction and brief notes on the text, as explained below. Contents Acknowledgments ### Brief Introduction ### Abbreviations ### 1. In I Sententiarum Distinction 1 [in part] ### Question 1: On enjoyment and use ### Article 1: Whether to enjoy is an act of intellect ### Distinction 17 (Paris version, 1252?1256) ### Question 1: On charity as something created in the soul ### Division of the text ### Article 1: Whether charity is something created in the soul ### Article 2: Whether charity is an accident ### Article 3: Whether charity is given according to natural capacity ### Article 4: Whether he who has charity can know for certain that he has it ### Article 5: Whether charity is to be loved from charity ### Notes on the text ### Question 2: On charity?s increase and decrease ### Division of the text ### Article 1: Whether charity admits of increase ### Article 2: Whether charity increases by way of addition ### Article 3: Whether charity is increased by any act of charity ### Article 4: Whether charity?s increase has a limit ### Article 5: Whether charity admits of decrease ### Notes on the text ### Distinction 17 (Lectura romana, 1265?1266) ### Question 1: On charity as something created in the soul ### Article 1: Whether a supernatural light is required in order to love God ### Article 2: Whether that [supernatural gift] is something created or uncreated ### Article 3: Whether that [supernatural gift] is an accident ### Article 4: Whether a man can know for certain that he has charity ### Question 2: On charity?s increase and decrease ### Article 1: Whether charity admits of increase ### Article 2: How much charity can increase ### Article 3: Whether charity grows by way of addition ### Article 4: Whether charity admits of decrease ### 2. In II Sententiarum Distinction 3 [in part] ### Question 4: Whether angels in that natural state, granting that they had not been created in grace, would have loved God above themselves and more than themselves ### Distinction 38 [in part] ### Article 1: Whether there is only a single end of right wills ### Article 2: Whether beatitude or charity is the common and single end of right wills ### 3. In III Sententiarum Distinction 23 [in part] ### Question 1: On virtues in general ### Article 4: On the division of virtues into intellectual, moral, and theological ### Subquestion 3: Whether theological virtues ought to be distinguished from both kinds of virtue ### Article 5: Whether there are more than three theological virtues ### Question 3: On the formation of faith ### Article 1: The formation of faith through charity ### Subquestion 1: Whether faith is formed through charity ### Subquestion 2: Whether unformed faith is a virtue ### Subquestion 3: Whether formed and unformed faith differ in species ### Article 4: The change from unformed faith to formed faith ### Subquestion 1: Whether unformed faith is emptied out at the coming of charity ### Subquestion 2: Whether the act of unformed faith is emptied out at the coming of charity ### Subquestion 3: Whether unformed faith becomes formed at the coming of charity ### Distinction 27: Love and Charity in Themselves ### Division of the text ### Question 1: On love in general ### Article 1: What is love? ### Article 2: Whether love is only in the concupiscible power ### Article 3: Whether love is the first and foremost affection of the soul ### Article 4: Whether knowledge is higher than love ### Question 2: On charity ### Article 1: What is charity? ### Article 2: Whether charity is a virtue ### Article 3: Whether reason is the subject of charity ### Article 4: Whether charity is one virtue or many ### Subquestion 1: Whether charity is a single virtue ### Subquestion 2: Whether charity is distinct from other virtues ### Subquestion 3: Whether charity is the form of the other virtues ### Subquestion 4: Whether there can be an unformed charity ### Question 3: On the act of charity for God ### Article 1: Whether God can be immediately loved by wayfarers ### Article 2: Whether God can be totally loved ### Article 3: Whether the love by which we love God has any measure ### Article 4: Whether the mode of loving specified in the commandment can be fulfilled in the wayfaring state ### Notes on the text ### Distinction 28: Objects of Charity ### Division of the text ### Article 1: Whether virtues should be loved from charity ### Article 2: Whether irrational creatures are to be loved from charity ### Article 3: Whether angels are to be loved from charity ### Article 4: Whether we ought to have charity for evil people ### Article 5: Whether demons are to be loved from charity ### Article 6: Whether man ought to love himself from charity ### Article 7: Whether our bodies are to be loved from charity ### Notes on the text ### Distinction 29: The Order of Charity ### Division of the text ### Article 1: Whether charity has an order ### Article 2: Whether the order of charity is to be looked to regarding affection or effect ### Article 3: Whether God is to be loved above all things from charity ### Article 4: Whether the love of God permits consideration of a wage ### Article 5: Whether from charity a man ought to love himself more than his neighbor ### Article 6: Whether from charity a man ought to love strangers more than those who are close to him ### Article 7: Concerning the order of charity to be observed among those who are close to us ### Article 8: Concerning charity?s perfection and degrees ### Subquestion 1: Whether the degrees of charity are fittingly distinguished ### Subquestion 2: Whether all are bound to perfect charity ### Subquestion 3: Whether one who has attained perfect charity is bound to everything that belongs to perfection ### Notes on the text ### Distinction 30: The Commandment of Charity ### Division of the text ### Article 1: Whether all are bound to love enemies ### Article 2: Whether all are bound to show signs of friendship to enemies ### Article 3: Whether it is of greater merit to love a friend or an enemy ### Article 4: Whether to love one?s neighbor is more meritorious than to love God ### Article 5: Whether merit consists chiefly in charity ### Notes on the text ### Distinction 31: Charity?s Duration ### Division of the text ### Question 1: On the emptying out of charity through sin ### Article 1: Whether one who has charity can lose it ### Article 2: On the Book of Life ### Subquestion 1: Whether the Book of Life is something created ### Subquestion 2: Whether the Book of Life has to do with God ### Subquestion 3: Whether anything can be said to be erased from the Book of Life ### Article 3: Whether any charity can resist any temptation ### Article 4: On the charity with which a man rises up from sin ### Subquestion 1: Whether a man always rises up from sin with less charity than before ### Subquestion 2: Whether a man always rises up from sin with greater charity than before ### Subquestion 3: Whether a man rises up from sin with a charity at least equal to that which he had before ### Responses to subquestions 1?3 ### Question 2: On the emptying out of charity through glory ### Article 1: Whether faith and hope are emptied out in the fatherland ### Subquestion 1: Whether faith is emptied out in the state of glory ### Subquestion 2: Whether hope is emptied out in the state of glory ### Subquestion 3: Whether anything of faith and hope remains in the state of glory ### Article 2: Whether the charity of the wayfaring state will be emptied out in the fatherland ### Article 3: Whether the order of love obtaining in this life is also to be found in Christ or in the saints who are in the fatherland ### Subquestion 1: ?with regard to love of enemies ### Subquestion 2: ?with respect to love of self and neighbor ### Subquestion 3: Whom Christ loved more, Peter or John ### Article 4: Whether the knowledge that we have here below will be entirely taken away in the fatherland ### Notes on the text ### Distinction 32: God?s Love for Creatures ### Division of the text ### Article 1: Whether it accords with God?s nature that he love a creature ### Article 2: Whether God loves every creature ### Article 3: Whether God has loved creatures from eternity ### Article 4: Whether God loves all things equally ### Article 5: On the comparison of things loved by God ### Subquestion 1: Whether God loves the now-just man foreknown to be lost more than the sinner predestined to be saved ### Subquestion 2: Whether God loves the penitent more than the innocent ### Subquestion 3: Whether God loves man more than angel ### Subquestion 4: Whether God loves the human race more than he loves Christ ### Notes on the text ### Distinction 36 [in part] ### Article 6: Whether a commandment contains the requirement that it be fulfilled charitably ### 4. IN IV SENTENTIARUM Distinction 49 [in part] ### Question 1: On beatitude ### Article 1: On that in which beatitude consists ### Subquestion 1: Whether beatitude consists in goods of the body ### Subquestion 2: Whether beatitude consists more in things belonging to will or in things belonging to intellect ### Subquestion 3: Whether beatitude consists in an act of the practical or of the speculative intellect ### Subquestion 4: Whether beatitude can be had in this life ### Article 2: On beatitude as created and uncreated ### Subquestion 1: Whether beatitude is something uncreated ### Subquestion 2: Whether happiness is an act ### Subquestion 3: Whether man?s beatitude is the same thing as eternal life ### Subquestion 4: Whether beatitude is the same thing as peace ### Subquestion 5: Whether beatitude is the same thing as the kingdom of God ### Article 3: On appetite for beatitude ### Subquestion 1: Whether all have appetite for beatitude ### Subquestion 2: Whether someone can have appetite for misery ### Subquestion 3: Whether one merits by having appetite for beatitude ### Subquestion 4: Whether everything is willed for the sake of beatitude ### Article 4: On participation in beatitude ### Subquestion 1: Whether the beatitude of the saints is going to be greater after the last judgment than it was before ### Subquestion 2: Whether beatitude will be equally participated in by all ### Subquestion 3: Whether the degrees of beatitude ought to be called ?dwelling places? ### Subquestion 4: Whether diversity of dwelling places follows upon different degrees of charity ### Appendix I: Scriptum and ST Parallels on Love and Charity in General Appendix II: English Translations of the Scriptum Index of Names ### Index of Scriptural Citations ###
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