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
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Is heresy a kind of unbelief? The matter about which it is. Should heretics be tolerated? Should converts be received?| 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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Are sacraments necessary for man's salvation? Were they necessary in the state that preceded sin? Were they necessary in the state after sin and before Christ? Were they necessary after Christ's coming?| www.newadvent.org
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Biography of the English Carmelite, sixth general of the Order. Associated with the brown scapular. Died 1265| www.newadvent.org
Born at Anagni about 1235; died at Rome, 11 October, 1303| www.newadvent.org
The word humility signifies lowliness or submissiveness and it is derived from the Latin humilitas or, as St. Thomas says, from humus, i.e. the earth which is beneath us| 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
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
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Is the Body of Christ in this sacrament truly, or figuratively? Do the substance of bread and wine remain in this sacrament after the consecration? Is it annihilated? Is it changed into the body and blood of Christ? Do the accidents remain after the change? Does the substantial form remain there? Is this change instantaneous? Is it more miraculous than any other change? By what words it may be suitably expressed?| www.newadvent.org
Is vice contrary to virtue? Is vice contrary to nature? Which is worse, a vice or a vicious act? Is a vicious act compatible with virtue? Does every sin include action? The definition of sin proposed by Augustine.| www.newadvent.org
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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
Is God infinite? Is anything besides Him infinite in essence? Can anything be infinite in magnitude? Can an infinite multitude exist?| 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 God perfect? Is God perfect universally, as having in Himself the perfections of all things? Can creatures be said to be like God?| 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
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
The incarnate Son of God and the redeemer of the human race| www.newadvent.org
This term is identical with the English offering (Latin offerre) and the German Opfer| www.newadvent.org
Is the proposition 'God exists' self-evident? Is it demonstrable? Does God exist?| www.newadvent.org
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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
A moral evil| www.newadvent.org
In its ordinary and proper sense, signifiies the most important of the cardinal virtues| www.newadvent.org
Aspects discussed are, I. Antiquity; II. Minister; III. Objects; IV. Efficacy; and V. Rite employed in administering| www.newadvent.org
What is the natural law? What are the precepts of the natural law? Are all acts of virtue prescribed by the natural law? Is the natural law the same in all? Is it changeable? Can it be abolished from the heart of man?| www.newadvent.org
Is the world governed by someone? What is the end of this government? Is the world governed by one? What are the effects of this government? Are all things subject to Divine government? Are all things immediately governed by God? Is the Divine government frustrated in anything? Is anything contrary to the Divine Providence?| 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
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In its widest acceptation, concupiscence is any yearning of the soul for good; in its strict and specific acceptation, a desire of the lower appetite contrary to reason| 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