Father Mark Reads St. Thomas Aquinas: Recent Episodes

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Season 1: Summa Contra Gentiles, Book IV, which considers salvation. Season 2: The first part of Summa Theologica, III Pars, which considers the Incarnation.

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Are there different souls in man, nutritive, sensitive, and intellectual?

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Is there only one human intellect?

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Is the intellectual principle the form of the body?

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Is the human soul incorruptible?

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Is the soul of the same species as an angel?

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Is man the soul?

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Is the soul composed of form and matter?

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Are the souls of brute animals subsistent?

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Is the human soul a subsistent thing?

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Is the human soul a body?

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Is Christ the mediator as man?

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Is Christ the mediator between God and man?

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Should we venerate the relics of the saints?

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Should we worship images of Christ as we worship the Creator?

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Should we worship Christ's cross as we worship the Creator?

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Should we worship the Mother of God as we worship the Creator?

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Are Christ's humanity and Godhead to be adored with the same adoration?

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Is Christ's humanity to be adored as the Creator is adored?

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Is Christ's predestination the cause of ours?

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Is Christ's predestination the exemplar of ours?

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Is it befitting that Christ should be "predestinated?"

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"Christ as man was predestinated to be the Son of God." True or false?

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Is it proper to the rational nature to be adopted by God?

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Is Christ as man the adopted son of God?

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Does the whole Trinity adopt?

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Is it fitting for God to adopt children?

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Is Christ's priesthood eternal?

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Is Christ a priest of the order of Melchizedek?

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Does Christ's priesthood expiate sins?

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Does Christ benefit from His own priesthood?

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Was it fitting for Christ to be a priest?

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Was Christ both priest and victim?

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Were Christ's prayers always heard?

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Did Christ pray for Himself, or only for others?

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Is it becoming for Christ to pray?

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Did Christ pray in His sensuality?

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Is Christ subject to Himself?

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Is Christ subject to the Father?

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Did Christ merit anything for Himself?

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Did Christ merit for others?

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Does Christ have several human operations?

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Does Christ have both divine and human operations, distinct from each other?

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Did Christ always will what the Father willed?

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Was their conduct between Christ's will and the Father's will?

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Does Christ have more than one human will?

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Does Christ have free will?

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Are there two wills in Christ, human and divine?

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Is there a sensitive will, as well as a rational will?

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Is Christ one or two?

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Is this true: Christ as Man is God?

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Is this true: Christ as Man is a Person?

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Is Christ as man a creature, or the Creator?

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Did Christ as Man begin to be?

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Is this true: Christ is a creature?

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Is this true: Man was made God?

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Can we say that what belongs to the human nature of Christ belongs to the divine nature also?

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Is this true: God was made man?

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When we speak of Christ, can we speak of human things as pertaining to God?

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Can we call Christ a "lordly man?"

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Is this true: Man is God?

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Is this true: God is man?

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Did Christ experience wonder?

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Did Christ get angry?

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Was Christ simultaneously a "wayfarer" and a "comprehensor?"

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Did Christ fear?

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Could Christ feel pain?

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Did Christ feel sorrow?

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Did Christ experience passions in His soul?

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Was Christ ignorant of anything?

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Was the fomes of sin in Christ?

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Was there sin in Christ?

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Did Christ contract mortality by His birth?

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Should Christ have assumed mortal flesh, subject to suffering?

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Did Christ necessarily subject Himself to death and suffering?

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Should Christ have assumed all human bodily defects?

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Did Christ's soul have omnipotence over His own body?

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Was Christ omnipotent when it came to the execution of His human will?

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Is Christ's soul omnipotent in changing created things?

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Is Christ's soul omnipotent?

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Did Christ know all things by acquired/empiric knowledge?

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Did Christ learn from other human beings?

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Did Christ learn from angels?

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Did Christ advance in knowledge?

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Was Christ's infused knowledge habitual?

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Was Christ's infused knowledge distinguished by differing habits?

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Was Christ's infused knowledge greater than the knowledge of the angels?

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Was Christ's infused knowledge discursive?

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Does Christ know all things by knowledge infused into His mind from above?

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Did Christ's mind use sensory images?

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Does the soul of Christ know God better than any other creature does?

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Does the soul of Christ know the infinite?

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Does the soul of Christ comprehend God?

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Does the soul of Christ know all things by seeing God?

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Did Christ acquire knowledge?

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Does Christ have "infused" knowledge?

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Does Christ have the beatific knowledge of the saints in heaven?

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Does Christ have any knowledge other than His divine knowledge?

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Is Antichrist the Head of the wicked?

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Is the devil the Head of the wicked?

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Is Christ the Head of the angels?

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Is Christ the sole Head of the Church?

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Are Christ's grace as a man, and His grace as Head of the Church, the same grace?

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Is Christ the Head of all mankind?

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Is Christ the Head of both soul and body?

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Is Christ the Head of the Church?

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Which came first in Christ? The grace of union or habitual grace?

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Could the grace of Christ have increased?

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Is the grace of Christ infinite?

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Does Christ have the "fullness" of grace?

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Does Christ alone have the fullness of grace?

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Did Christ have "gratuitous" graces?

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Was Christ a prophet?

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The Gifts of the Holy Spirit in Christ

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The Gift of fear in Christ

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Did Christ have hope in God?

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Did Christ have faith in God?

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Whether Christ's soul needed grace

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Whether Christ possessed all the virtues

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Did God assume the whole human nature through the medium of its parts?

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Did God assume human nature through the medium of grace?

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Did the Word assume the human soul before assuming the body?

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Did the Word assume flesh before assuming a human soul?

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The Word assumed a soul by assuming a mind. 

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The Son of God assumed a body by assuming a soul. 

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Did the Word of God assume a human soul?

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Does Christ have a human mind?

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Maybe God should have assumed a body made of heavenly material?

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Should God have assumed a flesh-and- blood human body?

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Should God have assumed the human nature of all individual human beings?

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Should God have assumed human nature in the abstract?

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Should God have assumed the human nature of a descendant of Adam?

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Was human nature more assumable by the Son of God than any other nature?

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Did the Son of God assume a human person?

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Was it most fitting for the Son to become incarnate, rather than the Father or the Holy Spirit?

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Whether several Divine Persons can assume one human nature

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Can a Divine Person assume several human natures?

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Can we conceive of God assuming human nature without knowing about the Trinity?

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Can one Divine Person assume human nature without the other two?

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Could the Father have become Incarnate? Could the Holy Spirit?

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Did it befit the Divine nature to assume human nature?

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Did it befit a Divine Person to assume human nature?

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Was the grace of union "natural" to Christ?

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Did anyone merit the Incarnation?

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Whether the union of God and man in Christ is the greatest of all unions. 

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Did the Incarnation take place by grace?

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Is the union of God and man something created? Or is it the Creator?

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Whether assumption is the same as union.

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Was human nature united to the Word of God accidentally?

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Did the union of the Incarnate Word take place in the suppositum, also known as the hypostasis?

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Did the union of the Incarnate Word occur in the nature?

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Did the union of the Incarnate Word occur in the Person?

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Did Christ come to wash away original sin or actual sin?

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Should Christ have come at the end of time?

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Should Christ have come at the beginning of time?

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Would God have become man if we had never sinned?

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Was it necessary for our salvation that God become man?

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Was it fitting for God to become incarnate?

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The motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Church, involves great struggle. 

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Transforming the culture

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How the Gospel of Life moves us to particular acts of charity, especially within the family.

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Gospel of Life evangelization. Proclaiming and celebrating. 

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"Legal" abortion?

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Euthanasia. Distinguishing it from refusing burdensome medical care. Palliative care that hastens death. Finding meaning in suffering. 

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The crime of abortion

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Thou Shalt Not Kill. Self-defense. The death penalty. 

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How the Bible deals with pregnancy, and with old age. Also, the Law of Life, and is revelation on the cross. 

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The gift of eternal life, mankind's responsibility for life, cooperating with God through procreation 

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The teaching of the Bible about the meaning of human life

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The blood of Christ, source of our hope and pro-life commitment

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The blinding of consciences, when the first principles of democracy are betrayed

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Cain and Abel, the Culture of Death. WARNING: Intense examination of conscience. Remember that God is merciful, and He forgives the penitent and brings good out of evil.

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Beginning of the encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae

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The dammed souls remain unchangeably fixed on evil.

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The blessed souls remain unchangeably fixed on the good. 

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The state of the cosmos after the Judgment 

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The Last Judgment 

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Unchangeableness of will in purgatory

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Why souls separated from the body cannot change their wills from good to evil, or vice versa

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Immediate reward or punishment after death, or purgatory. 

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The spiritual sufferings of the damned.

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The bodily sufferings of the damned.

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With a place in the heavens

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The blessed will be incapable of suffering. 

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We will rise male and female, as we are now. 

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Flesh and blood, but incorruptible and immortal. 

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We will rise in bodies of the same nature we have now, flesh and blood. 

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No eating or sex after the resurrection

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We will rise immortal, never to die again. 

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Answers to the objections against faith in the resurrection

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Objections to faith in the resurrection

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The resurrection of the body. 

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The sacrament of matrimony

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Clergymen need not be virtuous to give the sacraments

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The order of Bishops and the pope

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The "minor" orders

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The sacrament of extreme unction

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The sacrament of holy orders 

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The sacrament of Penance

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Repentance after Baptism

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Can an initiated Christian sin?

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Solution to the difficulty with the breaking of the bread at Mass.

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Leavened or unleavened bread?

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Comment on "these words are spirit and life. "

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Solution to difficulties regarding the sensible qualities of the consecrated Host and chalice. 

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How the consecrated Sacrament retains the capacity to nourish or inebriate, or to rot or burn

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Solution to difficulties regarding the place of the Body and Blood of Christ

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Objections to the Real Presence. 

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Transubstantiation explained

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The Holy Eucharist

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Baptism

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Confirmation 

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The sacraments mirror natural bodily life. 

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On having visible sacraments

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Sacraments of the Law and of the Gospel

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Replies to the objections about the suitability of the Incarnation. 

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Demonstration of the suitability of the Incarnation

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Objections purporting to show the unsuitability of the Incarnation. 

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Objections to the doctrine of original sin

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Christian doctrine on original sin

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Solution to the objections about original sin

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Answers to arguments against the Incarnation. 

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But Christ is not the Son of the Holy Spirit. 

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We cannot call Christ a "creature" without some qualification. 

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We rightly attribute the Incarnation to the Holy Spirit. 

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The Word assumed a fully "formed" soul and body, at the moment of Christ's conception. 

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The Christ  was fittingly born of a virgin.

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God assumed body and soul to Himself at the moment of Christ's conception. 

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The Word most suitably united Himself to human nature. 

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St. Thomas' proposed solution for the one-Person-with-two-natures problem

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Metaphysical objections to the Incarnation. 

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Summary of doctrine on the Incarnation that saves the "communication of idioms" used in Scripture.

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Christ is one Person, one individual.

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The divine will and the human will of Christ are distinct from each other.

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Christ's soul and body were truly united, like ours, and His human nature was truly united to the eternal Word.

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The union of God and man in Christ did NOT involve one nature subsuming the other.

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Jesus Christ is one Person.

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Christ has a rational human soul.

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Christ has a human soul. 

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Christ's body is human flesh and bone. 

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The Word of God took human flesh to Himself; He did not change into human flesh. 

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Christ came from heaven, then returned. The divine took humanity to Himself; the human did not attain divine glory by its own power. 

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Christ did not merely appear to be human. He was and is fully and truly human. 

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The Incarnation

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There are only three divine Persons.

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The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son.

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Refutation of arguments against filioque

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St. Thomas answers objection outlined in Chap. 16, which try to identify the Holy Spirit as a creature, rather than as divine. 

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How the Holy Spirit moves us to God. 

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The effects on all of creation attributed to the Holy Spirit.

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The effects on human beings attributed to the Holy Spirit. 

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St. Thomas completes the psychological analogy. The Holy Spirit corresponds with God's love.

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The Holy Spirit is a subsistent Person, not a mental quality, or the divine essence.

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St. Thomas demonstrates from Scripture that the Holy Spirit is God.

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Is the Holy Spirit a creature?

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With the Father and the Son: the Holy Spirit.

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Explanation of "the divine Wisdom"

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St. Tho.as develops the psychological analogy. He arrives at the ideas necessary to answer the objections raised in Chapter Ten.

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Answers to the objections raised in Chapter Ten

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St. Thomas introduces the "psychological analogy," to provide an answer to the apparent impossibility of the Christian doctrine of God.

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Arguments against the Scriptural truth of divine generation

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St. Thomas resolves questions about Scripture raised by Photinus and Sabellius.

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How to understand correctly the Scripture verses cited by the Arians

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St. Thomas begins his refutation of Arianism.

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The Arian heresy

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Contra Sabellianism. The Father and the Son are one God, two distinct Persons. 

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St. Thomas refutes the heresy of "Adoptionism."

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The Son of God is divine

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Father and Son in God

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St. Thomas cites Job as a Prologue and explains how we will proceed to know God in Book IV