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Editor's note | |
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Preface: What the Summa is About | |
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Introduction: The Learning of Men and the Teaching of God | |
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Why we needed to be taught by God | |
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This teaching of God is a new science of God | |
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The language and style of God's teaching | |
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God | |
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What God is Not | |
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Is there a God? | |
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That there is a God needs proof | |
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There is a God | |
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God's simple perfection | |
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God is not, like creatures, made up of parts | |
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Nevertheless God's perfection is all-embracing | |
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What is goodness? | |
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God's goodness | |
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God exists without limit | |
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God is not limited in any way | |
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So God is present everywhere in everything | |
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God does not alter and is not in time | |
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There is only one God | |
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We can know God but not comprehend him | |
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Knowing God in the life to come | |
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Knowing God in this life | |
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We can talk about God but not define him | |
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Can words express what God is? | |
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Words expressing God as related to the world | |
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Names for God | |
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God's Life | |
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God knows | |
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God is his own knowing | |
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God knows everything that exists or that can exist | |
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God knows individuals | |
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God knows the future | |
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God knows propositions | |
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God's ideas | |
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Truth and knowledge | |
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The possibility of falsehood | |
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God lives | |
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God loves | |
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God's will | |
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God is love | |
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God is just and merciful | |
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God plans | |
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God is prudent or provident | |
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Predestination | |
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God acts | |
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God's power | |
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God's happy state | |
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Father, Son and Holy Spirit | |
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How we can conceive of distinct persons in God | |
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Coming forth in God | |
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Relatedness within God | |
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The meaning of person | |
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The three persons | |
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Father | |
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Son, Word and Image | |
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Holy Spirit, Love and Gift | |
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The grammar of the Trinity | |
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The sending of the persons of God | |
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Creation | |
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God as creator | |
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God as source of the world | |
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Creation is God's way of causing | |
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Did the world begin? | |
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The variety and order of creation | |
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Good and bad | |
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Spirit and matter | |
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The world of pure spirits | |
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Knowledge among spirits | |
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Love and will among spirits | |
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The creation of the angels | |
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The seven days of material creation | |
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Man's Place in Creation | |
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Human nature - embodied spirit | |
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What is man? | |
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Man's soul is immortal | |
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Embodied mind | |
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Each man has his own individual mind | |
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Each man has a single soul | |
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The human body | |
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Human abilities - bodily and spiritual | |
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Bodily life | |
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Our senses | |
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Mental ability | |
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Urges, inclinations and desires | |
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Sense-appetite | |
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Will | |
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Mind and will | |
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Emotion and will | |
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Free will | |
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How man knows | |
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Knowing material things | |
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Our dependence on our senses | |
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Abstraction of ideas | |
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The general and the particular | |
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The simple and the composite | |
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What don't we know? | |
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Knowing ourselves | |
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The soul after death | |
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The Genesis of man | |
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God formed man | |
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It is not good for man to be alone | |
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Let us make man after our own image | |
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God made man right | |
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Let him rule the fishes of the sea | |
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Death entered the world through sin | |
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Increase and multiply and fill the earth | |
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Running the World | |
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God's role | |
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Holding everything in existence | |
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Directing the world to its goal | |
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Miracles | |
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The role of creatures | |
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Angels | |
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Devils | |
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Material things | |
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Fate | |
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Men | |
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Journeying to God | |
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Human Life as a Journey to God | |
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Human life has a goal | |
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Acting for goals | |
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The notion of an ultimate goal | |
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God is our ultimate goal | |
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Happiness is seeing God | |
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What happiness brings with it | |
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Happiness is possible | |
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Acting voluntarily | |
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Willing, enjoying and intending goals | |
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Choosing, accepting and employing means | |
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Actions controlled by reason | |
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What makes action good or bad? | |
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Good and bad willing | |
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Good and bad deeds | |
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Some terminology | |
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Feeling | |
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Loving and hating | |
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Desiring | |
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Feeling pleased or sad | |
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Feeling hopeful or despairing | |
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Feeling afraid or feeling bold | |
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Feeling angry | |
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Living Well and Living Badly | |
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Dispositions | |
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What is a disposition? | |
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What sort of things need dispositions? | |
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How do dispositions arise? | |
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Varieties of disposition | |
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Virtue | |
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What is virtue? | |
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Mental virtues - speculative and practical | |
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Moral virtues | |
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The variety of moral virtues | |
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Ranking the virtues | |
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The gifts of the Holy Spirit | |
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The gospel blessings | |
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Sin and vice | |
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What is sin? | |
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Classification of sins | |
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Why we sin | |
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Sinning from ignorance | |
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Sinning from emotion | |
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Sinning from bad will | |
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Does God cause sin? | |
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Does the devil cause sin? | |
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Can sin be inherited? | |
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Sin's effects | |
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Sin's punishment | |
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Fatal sin | |
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Law and Grace | |
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Law | |
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What is law? | |
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Types of law | |
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The effect of law | |
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The eternal law | |
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The law we have in us by nature | |
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Human law | |
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How flexible is human law? | |
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The Old Law | |
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Subdivisions of the Old Law | |
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Moral injunctions of the Old Law | |
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Ritual and judicial injunctions | |
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The New Law | |
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Grace | |
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Why we need God's grace | |
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What is grace? | |
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Sources of grace | |
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Grace works in us to set sinners right | |
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Grace works with us to earn heaven | |
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Living With God - Faith, Hope and Love | |
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Faith | |
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What we believe | |
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The act of believing | |
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The disposition to believe - faith | |
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Knowing and understanding the faith | |
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Disbelief | |
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Heresy | |
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Apostasy | |
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Blasphemy | |
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Hope | |
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The virtue of hope | |
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Fear of God | |
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Despair and presumption | |
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Charity | |
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God's friendship | |
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Growing in love | |
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Whom do we love with charity? | |
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Joy and peace | |
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Compassion | |
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Doing good for people | |
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Giving alms | |
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Brotherly correction | |
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Hatred, apathy and envy | |
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Dissensions and war | |
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Setting (and following) bad example | |
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The commandments to love | |
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The gift of wisdom | |
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Living in the World - Moral Virtue | |
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Prudence | |
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Function of prudence | |
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Analysis of prudence | |
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Imprudence | |
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Justice | |
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Doing the just thing | |
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Being just | |
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Distributive and commutative justice | |
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Injustice | |
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Component parts of justice | |
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Virtues allied to justice | |
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Religion | |
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Interior devotion and prayer | |
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External religious behaviour | |
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Too much religion | |
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Too little religion | |
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Loyalty, respect and obedience | |
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Debts of honour | |
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Equity | |
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The ten commandments | |
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Courage | |
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The virtue of courage | |
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Virtues allied to courage | |
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Moderation | |
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What is moderation? | |
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Moderation in food and drink | |
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Moderation in sex | |
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Virtues allied to moderation | |
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Mildness and clemency | |
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Modesty: humility, studiousness, decent behaviour | |
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Special Walks of Life | |
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Charisms | |
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Prophecy | |
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Charisms related to prophecy | |
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Ways of life | |
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States of life | |
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The notion of a state of life | |
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Perfection in Christian life | |
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States of perfection | |
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The episcopal state | |
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The religious state | |
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The Road to God | |
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Jesus Christ - God and Man | |
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The incarnation | |
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Why did God become man? | |
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Two natures in one person | |
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Christ's grace | |
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Christ's own grace | |
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Christ's grace of headship | |
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Christ's humanity as God's perfect tool | |
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What did Christ know? | |
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The power and the weakness of Christ | |
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Rules for talking about the incarnation | |
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Christ's existence | |
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Christ's will | |
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Christ's activity | |
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Christ's relations to his Father and to us | |
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The Life of Christ | |
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Christ's entry into the world | |
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His virgin mother | |
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He was conceived of the Holy Spirit | |
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Born of the virgin Mary | |
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Christ's life in this world | |
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He was baptized | |
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His public life | |
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His transfiguration | |
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Christ's departure from the world | |
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He suffered | |
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The meaning of Christ's sufferings | |
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The effects of Christ's sufferings | |
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He was dead, and was buried | |
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He descended into hell | |
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He rose again from the dead | |
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He ascended into heaven | |
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He sits at the Father's right, as judge | |
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Living in Christ | |
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The sacraments of Christ | |
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What is a sacrament? | |
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Do we need sacraments? | |
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How the New Law sacraments cause grace | |
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The sacramental mark or character | |
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The power at work in the sacraments | |
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The seven sacraments | |
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Baptism: sacramental rebirth | |
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The sacramental action | |
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The effects of baptism | |
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Confirmation: sacramental maturity | |
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The eucharist: sacramental sacrifice and meal | |
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The sacramental sign | |
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Christ in the sacrament--transubstantiation | |
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Christ in the sacrament--the real presence | |
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The properties of bread and wine | |
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The words of consecration | |
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The sacrament of love | |
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Taking communion | |
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Sacramental penitence | |
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The sacrament of penitence | |
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The virtue of repentance | |
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Index of quotations | |
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Select bibliography | |
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Index | |