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| Abbreviations |
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| Introduction |
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55 | (34) |
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55 | (7) |
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62 | (6) |
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Is Good the Cause of Evil? |
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68 | (7) |
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Is Evil Suitably Divided into the Evil of Moral Wrong and the Evil of Punishment? |
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75 | (5) |
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Does Punishment or Moral Wrong Have More of the Nature of Evil? |
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80 | (9) |
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89 | (52) |
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Is an Act Involved in Every Sin? |
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89 | (6) |
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Does Sin Consist Solely of the Will's Act? |
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95 | (5) |
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Does Sin Consist Chiefly of Acts of the Will? |
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100 | (3) |
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Is Every Act Morally Indifferent? |
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103 | (6) |
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Are Some Acts Morally Indifferent? |
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109 | (5) |
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Do Circumstances Specify Sins or Alter the Species of Sin by Transferring Them into Different Kinds of Sin? |
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114 | (6) |
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Do Circumstances Make Sins More Serious without Imputing Species to Sins? |
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120 | (3) |
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Do Circumstances Make Sins Infinitely More Serious, Namely, so as to Make Venial Sins Mortal? |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (6) |
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Are Sins More Serious Because They Are Contrary to a Greater Good? |
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130 | (2) |
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Does Sin Diminish Natural Good? |
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132 | (5) |
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Can Sin Destroy the Whole Natural Good? |
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137 | (4) |
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Question III On the Causes of Sin |
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141 | (52) |
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141 | (5) |
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Do Acts of Sin Come from God? |
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146 | (3) |
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Does the Devil Cause Sin? |
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149 | (5) |
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Can the Devil by Interior Persuasion Induce Human Beings to Sin? |
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154 | (3) |
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Does the Devil Suggest Every Sin? |
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157 | (1) |
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Regarding Human Sinners, Can Ignorance Cause Sin? |
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158 | (3) |
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161 | (4) |
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Does Ignorance Excuse or Diminish Sin? |
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165 | (3) |
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Can a Person Having Knowledge Sin out of Weakness? |
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168 | (5) |
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Do We Impute Sins out of Weakness to Human Beings as Mortal Sins? |
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173 | (2) |
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Does Weakness Make Sin Less or More Serious? |
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175 | (2) |
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Can a Person Sin out of Malice, That is, Deliberate Malice? |
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177 | (4) |
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Does the Sinner out of Malice Sin More Seriously than the Sinner out of Weakness? |
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181 | (3) |
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Is Every Sin Done out of Malice a Sin against the Holy Spirit? |
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184 | (5) |
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Can Sins against the Holy Spirit Be Forgiven? |
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189 | (4) |
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Question IV On Original Sin |
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193 | (38) |
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Is a Sin Contracted by Physical Descent? |
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193 | (7) |
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200 | (9) |
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Is Flesh or the Soul the Subject in Which Original Sin Inheres? |
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209 | (2) |
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Does Original Sin Inhere in the Powers of the Soul Prior to Being in the Soul's Essence? |
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211 | (3) |
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Does Original Sin Inhere in the Will Prior to Being in Other Powers? |
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214 | (2) |
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Is Original Sin Transmitted by Adam to All Descendants from His Seed? |
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216 | (7) |
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Do Those Begotten Only from Adam's Matter Contract Original Sin? |
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223 | (2) |
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Are the Sins of Immediate Parents Transmitted by Physical Descent to Their Posterity? |
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225 | (6) |
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Question V On the Punishment of Original Sin |
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231 | (22) |
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Is Privation of the Vision of God a Fitting Punishment for Original Sin? |
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231 | (6) |
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Does Original Sin Deserve Punishment of the Senses? |
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237 | (2) |
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Do Those Who Die with Only Original Sin Suffer the Torment of Internal Anguish? |
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239 | (3) |
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Are Death and Other Ills of This Life Punishment of Original Sin? |
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242 | (3) |
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Are Death and Like Ills Natural to Human Beings? |
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245 | (8) |
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Question VI On Human Choice |
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253 | (12) |
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Do Human Beings Have Free Choice in Their Acts, or Do They Choose Necessarily? |
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253 | (12) |
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Question VII On Venial Sin |
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265 | (52) |
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Do We Properly Contradistinguish Venial Sin from Mortal Sin? |
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265 | (8) |
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Does Venial Sin Diminish Charity? |
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273 | (6) |
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Can Venial Sin Become Mortal? |
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279 | (6) |
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Do Circumstances Make Venial Sins Mortal? |
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285 | (2) |
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Can Venial Sin Belong to Higher Reason? |
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287 | (5) |
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Can Venial Sin Belong to Sense Appetites? |
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292 | (3) |
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Could Adam in the Condition of Innocence Have Sinned Venially? |
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295 | (5) |
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Are the First Movements of the Sense Appetites of Unbelievers Venial Sins? |
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300 | (2) |
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Can a Good or Bad Angel Sin Venially? |
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302 | (1) |
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Is Venial Sin by One without Charity Punished by Eternal Punishment? |
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303 | (5) |
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Are Any Venial Sins Remitted in Purgatory after This Life Ends? |
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308 | (6) |
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Does Sprinkling Holy Water, Anointing the Body, and the Like Remit Venial Sins in This Life? |
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314 | (3) |
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Question VIII On the Capital Sins |
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317 | (24) |
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How Many Capital Sins Are There, and Which Sins Are? |
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317 | (8) |
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Is Pride a Special Kind of Sin? |
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325 | (7) |
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Does Pride Belong to Irascible Power? |
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332 | (6) |
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Does Gregory Appropriately Assign Four Species of Pride? |
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338 | (3) |
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341 | (10) |
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341 | (3) |
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Is Vainglory a Mortal Sin? |
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344 | (4) |
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Do We Appropriately Assign Disobedience, Boasting, Hypocrisy, Contention, Obstinacy, Discord, and Audacity for Novelties as the Daughters of Vainglory? |
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348 | (3) |
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351 | (10) |
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351 | (3) |
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354 | (5) |
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359 | (2) |
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Question XI On Spiritual Apathy |
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361 | (10) |
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Is Spiritual Apathy a Sin? |
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361 | (3) |
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Is Spiritual Apathy a Special Kind of Sin? |
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364 | (2) |
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Is Spiritual Apathy a Mortal Sin? |
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366 | (3) |
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Is Spiritual Apathy a Capital Sin? |
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369 | (2) |
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371 | (18) |
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Is All Anger Sin, or Is Some Anger Good? |
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371 | (6) |
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377 | (3) |
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380 | (4) |
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Is Anger a Less Serious Sin Than Hate and Envy and the Like? |
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384 | (2) |
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386 | (3) |
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389 | (16) |
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Is Avarice a Special Kind of Sin? |
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389 | (3) |
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392 | (3) |
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Is Avarice a Capital Sin? |
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395 | (2) |
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Is Lending at Interest a Mortal Sin? |
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397 | (8) |
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405 | (14) |
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Is Gluttony Always a Sin? |
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405 | (3) |
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Is Gluttony a Mortal Sin? |
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408 | (4) |
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Does Gregory Appropriately List the Species of Gluttony? |
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412 | (3) |
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Is Gluttony a Capital Sin? |
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415 | (4) |
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Question XV On Sexual Lust |
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419 | (16) |
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Is Every Act of Sexual Lust a Sin? |
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419 | (4) |
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Is Every Act of Sexual Lust a Mortal Sin? |
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423 | (7) |
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Are Fornication, Adultery, Incest, Seduction of a Virgin, Rape, and Sins Contrary to Nature the Species of Sexual Lust? |
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430 | (1) |
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Is Sexual Lust a Capital Sin? |
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431 | (4) |
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435 | (80) |
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Do Devils Have Bodies Joined to Them by Nature? |
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435 | (9) |
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Are Devils Evil by Their Nature or Their Will? |
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444 | (8) |
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Did the Devil in Sinning Desire Equality with God? |
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452 | (6) |
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Did the Devil Sin, or Could He Have Sinned, at the First Moment of His Creation? |
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458 | (9) |
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Can Devils' Free Choice Return to Good after Their Sin? |
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467 | (7) |
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Is a Devil's Intellect So Darkened after Sin That It Can Err or Be Deceived? |
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474 | (8) |
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Do Devils Know Future Things? |
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482 | (8) |
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Do Devils Know Our Interior Thoughts? |
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490 | (5) |
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Can Devils Alter Material Substances by Changing the Substances' Forms? |
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495 | (5) |
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Can Devils Cause the Locomotion of Material Substances? |
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500 | (3) |
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Can Devils Affect the Soul's Cognitive Powers Regarding the Internal or External Senses? |
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503 | (6) |
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Can Devils Affect Human Beings' Intellect? |
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509 | (6) |
| Glossary of Terms |
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515 | (6) |
| Glossary of Authors and Works Cited |
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521 | (4) |
| Comparable Passages in Other Works of Aquinas |
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525 | (2) |
| Non-Biblical Texts Cited |
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527 | (4) |
| Select Bibliography |
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531 | (6) |
| Index |
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