Quodlibet III

Abstract

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.