Quodlibet VIII

Abstract

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet I, 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, and human beings. Specifically, the questions deal with God’s divine nature: Did blessed Benedict see the divine essence in his vision of the whole world?; God’s assumed human nature: Was Christ related to the Father and to his mother by one sonship or two? Did Christ die on the cross?; angels: Does an angel’s essence depend upon a bodily place, or is an angel only in a place by virtue of its activity? Can an angel move from place to place without passing through the space in between?; human nature; contrition; confession; relating to clerics; relating to religious; sin; and glory.