Palladium theologicum, Tomus quintus: De virtutibus
Gaudenzio da Brescia (1612–1672)
Reuerendi patris Gaudentij Bontempi, ... Palladium theologicum, seu Tota theologia scholastica in septem tomos distributa. Ad intimam mentem d. Bonauenturae seraphici doctoris ... Tomus quintus, De virtutibus
First published 1676
Bontempi's Palladium theologicum (Lyon 1676) is a complete scholastic theology composed ad mentem D. Bonaventurae, arranged in seven tractatus on the order of the Secunda secundae. This fifth volume, De virtutibus, treats the theological virtues (faith, hope, charity, with their gifts, beatitudes and fruits), the cardinal virtues and their opposite vices, and the states and offices of men (religious and prelates, bishops, princes), including the extensive disputations on contracts, religion, vows, fortitude, temperance and the judicial process. It is a significant example of the Bonaventurian scholastic school and a counterpart to the Thomist manuals of the period.
Tractatus I: PRIMUS DE VIRTUTIBUS THEOLOGICIS
Proemium I: Prooemium
Disputatio I: ON FAITH
Quaestio I: What FAITH signifies, and what it is
Quaestio II: What the object of FAITH is
Quaestio III: Whether the object of FAITH is something complex
Quaestio IV: Whether the object of FAITH can be false
Quaestio V: Whether the object of FAITH can be evident scientifically
Quaestio VI: Whether FAITH is concerned with those things which are seen by vision on the way
Quaestio VII: Whether the articles of FAITH are evidently credible
Quaestio VIII: Whether the things to be believed are rightly arranged according to the articles
Quaestio IX: Whether the articles of FAITH have grown over the course of time
Quaestio X: Whether FAITH has grown as regards light
Quaestio XI: Whether Faith has grown in certitude
Quaestio XII: Whether the articles of Faith are to be expounded by some authority which is an infallible teacher, and what it is
Quaestio XIII: What are the marks of the true Church, in which the authority of expounding FAITH resides
Quaestio XIV: What must be believed by the necessity of means
Quaestio XV: What things are to be believed by the necessity of precept
Quaestio XVI: Whether we are bound to confess FAITH, and when
Quaestio XVII: Whether it is lawful to dispute about FAITH, and when
Quaestio XVIII: Whether Faith resides in the Intellect
Quaestio XIX: Whether Faith is perfected by Charity, as by its form
Quaestio XX: Whether it is certain that FAITH remains without CHARITY
Quaestio XXI: Whether, and how, FAITH is a VIRTUE
Quaestio XXII: Whether FAITH is ONE VIRTUE
Quaestio XXIII: Whether FAITH is the first of the Virtues
Quaestio XXIV: Whether FAITH is more certain than any science, or than any intellectual habit
Quaestio XXV: Whether one can know with certainty that he has FAITH
Quaestio XXVI: In whom FAITH is found
I suppose, that it is in men as wayfarers; and that it has existed in Angels as wayfarers.
It is proved from D. Bonaventure 3. dist. 25. question 2. ad 2. from 11. ad Hebr. He that cometh to God must believe. Without faith it is impossible to please God.
I suppose secondly, that in the blessed faith is evacuated, as is said 1. Cor. 13.; that it nevertheless remains in purgatory, because they are just, and pilgrims away from the Lord.
The question is about damned men and demons.
I assert first, that in demons there is no infused habit of faith. This is so certain that Suarez lib. 8. de Angelis, cap. 6. says it is temerarious to concede to demons the habit of faith. Nearly the same Bannes says question 5. art. 2., but asserting it free from every known view; so assert Hurtado disp. 59. sect. 2., Granado tract. 13. sect. 1., Lugo disp. 17. sect. 1.
The foundation of D. Bonaventure and D. Thomas is, because infused faith is a gift of God, ordered to good works, and to merit and eternal life; but demons, most obstinate, are unfit for merit and eternal life: Therefore. So also Valencia question 5. p. 2.
I assert secondly, that in demons there is a faith of a kind.
It is proved first from S. Bonaventure from that James 2. The devils believe, and tremble. Secondly from the Gloss on the first epistle to the Romans, asserting it. Thirdly from Mark 1., and other places, where demons cry out that Christ is the Son of God. Hence S. Doctor deduces that they know the Trinity; for they also acknowledged it on the way.
It is also doubted of heretics: whether they retain the habit of faith.
It must be asserted, that they do not retain faith.
It is proved from 1. Timothy 1. where heretics are said to have made shipwreck concerning the faith: Some have made shipwreck concerning the faith, of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander.
It is proved also from the Council of Trent sess. 6. cap. 15. Therefore the opposite is erroneous, as Fulient. says lib. 3. cap. 3.; otherwise heretics would be faithful.
The reason is, because there does not remain in them the formal reason of the habit of faith, so as to incline them to believe all things credible, as revealed by the First Truth; for when one article is denied, the First Truth is denied. It is the common opinion of the Theologians 3. dist. 23., and of D. Thomas question 5. art. 3., at Lugo disp. 17. sect. 4. D. Bonaventure art. 2. question 2.
You will ask: Whether the habit of faith is destroyed by heresy physically, or morally.
It is ANSWERED, that it is more probable that it is expelled demeritoriously, just as grace is expelled by sin, as I said prima secunda, tract. 3. disp. 1. question 6. So Scotus, Gabriel, D. Bonaventure and others, at Suarez disp. 7. sect. 4. and tom. 3. in 3. partem, question 63. art. 5. and lib. 11. de gratia, cap. 7. Maldonatus, Lorca, and others at Coninck disp. 18. dub. 4. num. 35.; others at Lugo disp. 17. sect. 4.