Summa Theologiae/Second Part of the Second Part

by Thomas Aquinas

Treatise On The Theological Virtues (Questions 1-46)

• Question 1 - OF FAITH (TEN ARTICLES)
• Question 2 - OF THE ACT OF FAITH (TEN ARTICLES)
• Question 3 - OF THE OUTWARD ACT OF FAITH (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 4 - OF THE VIRTUE ITSLEF OF FAITH (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 5 - OF THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 6 - OF THE CAUSE OF FAITH (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 7 - OF THE EFFECTS OF FAITH (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 8 - OF THE GIFT OF UNDERSTANDING (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 9 - OF THE GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 10 - OF UNVELIEF IN GENERAL (TWELVE ARTICLES)
• Question 11 - OF HERESY (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 12 - OF APOSTASY (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 13 - OF THE SIN OF BLASHPHEMY, IN GENERAL (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 14 - OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 15 - OF THEVICES OPPOSED THE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING (THREE ARTICLES)
• Question 16 - OF THEPRECEPTS OF FAITH, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 17 - OF HOPE, CONSIDERED IN ITSLEF(EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 18 - OF THE SUBJECT OF HOPE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 19 - OF THE GIFT OF FEAR (TWELVE ARTICLES)
• Question 20 - OF DESPAIR (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 21 - OF PRESUMPTION (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 22 - OF THE PRECEPTS REALTING TO HOPE AND FEAR (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 23 - OF CHARITY, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 24 - OF THE SUBJECT OF CHARITY (TWELVE ARTICLES)
• Question 25 - OF THE OBJECT OF CHARITY (TWELVE ARTICLES)
• Question 26 - OF THE ORDER OF CHARITY (THIRTEEN ARTICLES)
• Question 27 - OF THE PRINCIPLE ACT OF CHARITY, WHICH IS TO LOVE (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 28 - OF JOY (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 29 - OF PEACE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 30 - OF MERCY (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 31 - OF BENEFICENCE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 32 - OF ALMSDEEDS (TEN ARTICLES)
• Question 33 - OF FRATERNAL CORRECTION (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 34 - OF HATRED (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 35 - OF SLOTH (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 36 - OF ENVY (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 37 - OF DISCORD, WHICH IS CONTRARY TO PEACE (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 38 - OF CONTENTION (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 39 - OF SCHISM (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 40 - OF WAR (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 41 - OF STRIFE (TWO ARTICLES) (Strife here denotes fighting between individuals)
• Question 42 - OF SEDITION (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 43 - OF SCANDAL (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 44 - OF THE PRECEPTS OF CHARITY (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 45 - OF THE GIFT OF WISDOM (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 46 - OF FOLLY WHICH IS OPPOSED TO WISDOM (THREE ARTICLES)

Treatise On The Cardinal Virtues (Questions 47-122)

• Question 47 - OF PRUDENCE, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF (SIXTEEN ARTICLES)
• Question 48 - OF THE PARTS OF PRUDENCE(ONE ARTICLE)
• Question 49 - OF EACH QUASI-INTEGRAL PART OF PRUDENCE (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 50 - OF THE SUBJECTIVE PARTS OF PRUDENCE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 51 - OF THE VIRTUES WHICH ARE CONNECTED WITH PRUDENCE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 52 - OF THE GIFT OF COUNSEL (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 53 - OF IMPRUDENCE (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 54 - OF NEGLIGENCE (THREE ARTICLES)
• Question 55 - OF VICES OPPOSED TO PRUDENCE BY WAY OF RESEMBLANCE (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 56 - OF THE PRECEPTS RELATING TO PRUDENCE (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 57 - OF RIGHT (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 58 - OF JUSTICE (TWELVE ARTICLES)
• Question 59 - OF INJUSTICE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 60 - OF JUDGMENT (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 61 - OF THE PARTS OF JUSTICE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 62 - OF RESTITUTION (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 63 - VICES OPPOSED TO DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 64 - OF MURDER (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 65 - OF OTHER INJURIES COMMITTED ON THE PERSON (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 66 - OF THEFT AND ROBBERY (NINE ARTICLES)
• Question 67 - OF THE INJUSTICE OF A JUDGE, IN JUDGING (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 68 - OF MATTERS CONCERNING UNJUST ACCUSATION (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 69 - OF SINS COMMITTED AGAINST JUSTICE ON THE PART OF THE DEFENDANT (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 70 - OF INJUSTICE WITH REGARD TO THE PERSON OF THE WITNESS (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 71 - OF INJUSTICE IN JUDGMENT ON THE PART OF COUNSEL (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 72 - OF REVILING (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 73 - OF BACKBITTING (*or detraction) (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 74 - OF TALE-BEARING (*'Susurration,' ie whispering) (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 75 - OF DERISION (*Or mockery) (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 76 - OF CURSING (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 77 - BY SINS COMMITTED IN BUYING AND SELLING (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 78 - BY SINS COMMITTED IN LOANS (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 79 - OF THE QUASI-INTEGRAL PARTS OF JUSTICE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 80 - OF THE POTENTIAL PARTS OF JUSTICE (ONE ARTICLE)
• Question 81 - OF RELIGION (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 82 - OF DEVOTION (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 83 - OF PRAYER (SEVENTEEN ARTICLES)
• Question 84 - OF ADORATION (THREE ARTICLES)
• Question 85 - OF SACRIFICE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 86 - OF OBLATIONS AND FIRST-FRUITS (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 87 - OF TITHES (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 88 - SERVICE BY PROMISE ( TWELVE ARTICLES)
• Question 89 - OF OATHS (TEN ARTICLES)
• Question 90 - OF THE TAKING OF GOD'S NAME BY WAY OF ADJURATION (THREE ARTICLES)
• Question 91 - OF TAKING THE DIVINE NAME FOR THE PURPOSE OF INVOKING IT BY MEANS OF PRAISE (TWELVE ARTICLES)
• Question 92 - OF SUPERSTITION (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 93 - OF SUPERSTITION CONSISTING IN UNDUE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 94 - OF IDOLATRY (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 95 - OF SUPERSTITION IN DIVINATIONS (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 96 - OF SUPERSTITION IN OBSERVANCES (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 97 - OF THE TEMPTATION OF GOD (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 98 - OF PERJURY (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 99 - OF SACRILEGE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 100 - ON SIMONY (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 101 - OF PIETY (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 102 - OF OBSERVANCE, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF, AND OF ITS PARTS (THREE ARTICLES)
• Question 103 - OF DULIA (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 104 - OF OBEDIENCE (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 105 - OF DISOBEDIENCE (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 106 - OF THANKFULNESS OR GRATITUDE (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 107 - OF INGRATITUDE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 108 - OF VENGEANCE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 109 - OF TRUTH (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 110 - OF THE VICES OPPOSED TO TRUTH, AND FIRST OF LYING (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 111 - OF DISSIMULATION AND HYPOCRISY (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 112 - OF BOASTING (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 113 - IRONY* (TWO ARTICLES) (*Irony here must be given the signification of the Greek (eironia), whence it is dericed; dissimulation of one's own good points. )
• Question 114 - OF THE FRIENDLINESS WHICH IS CALLED AFFABILITY (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 115 - OF FLATTERY (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 116 - OF QUARRELLING (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 117 - OF LIBERALITY (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 118 - OF THE VICES OPPOSED TO LIBERALITY, AND IN THE FIRST PLACE, OF COVETOUSNESS (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 119 - OF PRODIGALITY (THREE ARTICLES)
• Question 120 - OF 'EPIKEIA' OR EQUITY (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 121 - OF PIETY (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 122 - OF THE PRECEPTS OF JUSTICE (SIX ARTICLES)

Treatise on Fortitude and Temperance (Questions 123-170)

• Question 123 - OF FORTITUDE (TWELVE ARTICLES)
• Question 124 - OF MARTYRDOM (FIVE ARTICLES)
• Question 125 - OF FEAR* (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 126 - OF FEARLESSNESS (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 127 - OF DARING (*Excessive daring or foolhardiness (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 128 - OF THE PARTS OF FORTITUDE (ONE ARTICLE)
• Question 129 - OF MAGNANIMITY* (EIGHT ARTICLES) (*Not in the ordinary restricted sense but as explained by the author)
• Question 130 - OF PRESUMPTION (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 131 - OF AMBITION (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 132 - OF VAINGLORY (FIVE ARTICLES)
• Question 133 - OF PUSILLANIMITY (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 134 - OF MAGNIFICENCE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 135 - OF MEANNESS* (TWO ARTICLES) (*'Parvificentia,' or doing mean things, just as 'magnificentia' is doing great things.)
• Question 136 - OF PATIENCE (FIVE ARTICLES)
• Question 137 - OF PERSEVERANCE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 138 - OF THE VICES OPPOSED TO PERSEVERANCE (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 139 - OF THE GIFT OF FORTITUDE (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 140 - OF THE PRECEPTS OF FORTITUDE (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 141 - OF TEMPERANCE (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 142 - OF THE VICES OPPOSED TO TEMPERANCE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 143 - OF THE PARTS OF TEMPERANCE, IN GENERAL (ONE ARTICLE)
• Question 144 - OF SHAMEFACEDNESS (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 145 - OF HONESTY* (FOUR ARTICLES) (*Honesty must be taken here in its broad sense as synonymous with moral goodness, from the point of view of decorum.)
• Question 146 - OF ABSTINENCE (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 147 - OF FASTING (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 148 - OF GLUTTONY (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 149 - OF SOBRIETY (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 150 - OF DRUNKENNESS (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 151 - OF CHASTITY (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 152 - OF VIRGINITY (FIVE ARTICLES)
• Question 153 - OF LUST (FIVE ARTICLES)
• Question 154 - OF THE PARTS OF LUST (TWELVE ARTICLES)
• Question 155 - OF CONTINENCE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 156 - OF INCONTINENCE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 157 - OF CLEMENCY AND MEEKNESS (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 158 - OF ANGER (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 159 - OF CRUELTY (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 160 - OF MODESTY (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 161 - OF HUMILITY (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 162 - OF PRIDE (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 163 - OF THE FIRST MAN'S SIN (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 164 - OF THE PUNISHMENTS OF THE FIRST MAN'S SIN (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 165 - OF OUR FIRST PARENTS' TEMPTATION (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 166 - OF STUDIOUSNESS (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 167 - OF CURIOSITY (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 168 - OF MODESTY AS CONSISTING IN THE OUTWARD MOVEMENTS OF THE BODY (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 169 - OF MODESTY IN THE OUTWARD APPAREL (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 170 - OF THE PRECEPTS OF TEMPERANCE (TWO ARTICLES)

Treatise On Gratuitous Graces (Questions 171-182)

• Question 171 - OF PROPHECY (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 172 - OF THE CAUSE OF PROPHECY (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 173 - OF THE MANNER IN WHICH PROPHETIC KNOWLEDGE IS CONVEYED (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 174 - OF THE DIVISION OF PROPHECY (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 175 - OF RAPTURE (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 176 - OF THE GRACE OF TONGUES (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 177 - OF THE GRATUITOUS GRACE CONSISTING IN WORDS (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 178 - OF THE GRACE OF MIRACLES (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 179 - OF THE DIVISION OF LIFE INTO ACTIVE AND CONTEMPLATIVE (TWO ARTICLES)
• Question 180 - OF THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 181 - OF THE ACTIVE LIFE (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 182 - OF THE ACTIVE LIFE IN COMPARISON WITH THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE (FOUR ARTICLES)

Treatise On The States Of Life (Questions 183-189)

• Question 183 - OF MAN'S VARIOUS DUTIES AND STATES IN GENERAL (FOUR ARTICLES)
• Question 184 - OF THE STATE OF PERFECTION IN GENERAL (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 185 - OF THINGS PERTAINING TO THE EPISCOPAL STATE (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 186 - OF THOSE THINGS IN WHICH THE RELIGIOUS STATE PROPERLY CONSIST (TEN ARTICLES)
• Question 187 - OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE COMPETENT TO RELIGIOUS (SIX ARTICLES)
• Question 188 - OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF RELIGIOUS LIFE (EIGHT ARTICLES)
• Question 189 - OF THE ENTRANCE INTO RELIGIOUS LIFE (TEN ARTICLES)