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
Covered as natural reason and faith| 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 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
Does it belong to man to act for an end? Is this proper to the rational nature? Are a man's actions specified by their end? Is there any last end of human life? Can one man have several last ends? Does man ordain all to the last end? Do all men have the same last end? Do all other creatures concur with man in that last end?| www.newadvent.org
Discusses (1) the definition of 'person', especially with reference to the doctrine of the Incarnation; and (2) the use of the word 'persona' and its Greek equivalents in connection with the Trinitarian disputes.| www.newadvent.org
May be defined as the deferential recognition by word or sign of another's worth or station| www.newadvent.org
Is the proposition 'God exists' self-evident? Is it demonstrable? Does God exist?| 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
Is God a body? Is He composed of matter and form? Is there composition of quiddity, essence or nature, and subject in Him? Is He composed of essence and existence? Is He composed of genus and difference? Is He composed of subject and accident? Is He in any way composite, or wholly simple? Does He enter into composition with other things?| www.newadvent.org
How can you know that God exists? What is He really like? What is His relationship to the universe? What is the Blessed Trinity?| www.newadvent.org