Quodlibet II

Abstract

This chapter presents Thomas Aquinas’s Quodlibet V, 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 knowledge; God’s power; God’s assumed nature; angels: Is Lucifer the subject of the aevum?; human nature; the sacrament of the Eucharist: Is the form of bread annihilated? Should a priest give an unconsecrated host to an unexposed sinner who asks him to do so?; the sacrament of penance; the sacrament of marriage; relating to the virtues; relating to the commandments; relating to prelates; relating to teachers; relating to religious; and relating to clerics.