Quodlibet X

Abstract

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet III, 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’s divine nature; God’s assumed human nature; angels; teachers of sacred scripture; becoming a religious: Is it permissible to lead young people to enter the religious life through the obligation of an oath or vow?; being a religious: Can religious (who ought not to have anything of their own either alone or together) give alms from the things that other people give them as alms?; relating to the laity; the soul’s substance; the soul’s knowledge; the soul’s punishment; the body; conscience; penance; and purely bodily creatures.