Can a man merit anything from God? Without grace, can anyone merit eternal life? May anyone with grace merit eternal life condignly? Is it chiefly through the instrumentality of charity that grace is the principle of merit? May a man merit the first grace for himself? May he merit it for someone else? Can anyone merit restoration after sin? Can he merit for himself an increase of grace or charity? Can he merit final perseverance? Do temporal goods fall under merit?| www.newadvent.org
The definition of 'person'. The comparison of person to essence, subsistence, and hypostasis. Is the name of person becoming to God? What does it signify in Him?| www.newadvent.org
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Is there an order in charity? Should man love God more than his neighbor? More than himself? Should he love himself more than his neighbor? Should man love his neighbor more than his own body? Should he love one neighbor more than another? Should he love more, a neighbor who is better, or one who is more closely united to him? Should he love more, one who is akin to him by blood, or one who is united to him by other ties? Should a man, out of charity, love his son more than his father? Should...| www.newadvent.org
The infinite, as the word indicates, is that which has no end, no limit, no boundary, and therefore cannot be measured by a finite standard, however often applied; it is that which cannot be attained by successive addition, not exhausted by successive subtraction of finite quantities| www.newadvent.org
The arguments for God's existence are variously classified and entitled by different writers, but all agree in recognizing the distinction between a priori, or deductive, and a posteriori, or inductive reasoning in this connection| www.newadvent.org
Is it fitting for God to become incarnate? Was it necessary for the restoration of the human race? If there had been no sin, would God have become incarnate? Did He become incarnate to take away original sin rather than actual? Was it fitting for God to become incarnate from the beginning of the world? Should His Incarnation have been deferred to the end of the world?| www.newadvent.org
Can God be named by us? Are any names applied to God predicated of Him substantially? Are any names applied to God said of Him literally, or are all to be taken metaphorically? Are any names applied to God synonymous? Are some names applied to God and to creatures univocally or equivocally? Supposing they are applied analogically, are they applied first to God or to creatures? Are any names applicable to God from time? Is this name 'God' a name of nature, or of the operation? Is this name 'Go...| www.newadvent.org
Is every human action good, or are there evil actions? Is the good or evil of a human action derived from its object? Is it derived from a circumstance? Is it derived from the end? Is a human action good or evil in its species? Does an action have the species of good or evil from its end? Is the species derived from the end, contained under the species derived from the object, as under its genus, or conversely? Is any action indifferent in its species? Can an individual action be indifferent?...| www.newadvent.org
Is providence suitably assigned to God? Does everything come under divine providence? Is divine providence immediately concerned with all things? Does divine providence impose any necessity upon things foreseen?| www.newadvent.org
May be defined as the deferential recognition by word or sign of another's worth or station| www.newadvent.org
This term is identical with the English offering (Latin offerre) and the German Opfer| www.newadvent.org
By merit (meritum) in general is understood that property of a good work which entitles the doer to receive a reward from him in whose service the work is done| www.newadvent.org
The term church is the name employed in the Teutonic languages to render the Greek ekklesia (ecclesia), the term by which the New Testament writers denote the society founded by Jesus Christ| www.newadvent.org
In its ordinary and proper sense, signifiies the most important of the cardinal virtues| www.newadvent.org