Quodlibet VI

Abstract

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.