Summa summae S. Thomae sive compendium theologiae
Charles René Billuart (1685–1757)
First published 1754
Charles René Billuart, O.P.'s Summa summae S. Thomae sive compendium theologiae (Liège, 1754) is his six-volume abridgment of the larger Summa S. Thomae hodiernis academiarum moribus accommodata (1746–1751). It condenses Aquinas's order and teaching into a reference manual while retaining the Dominican's characteristic distinctions, scholastic proofs, and historical material. The compendium belongs to the eighteenth-century consolidation of post-Tridentine Thomist education and helped carry Billuart's influential reading of Aquinas into later schools. Schola presents the Latin text with an English translation from its public-domain source.
Proemium I: De natura et dotibus theologiae
Tractatus I: De Deo et Ejus Attributis
Dissertatio I: De Dei existentia
Articulus I: Utrum Deum esse sit per se notum
Articulus II: Utrum sit Deus, et quibus rationibus demonstretur?
Articulus III: De Atheismo
Articulus IV: Utrum possit dari ignorantia invincibilis de existentia Dei?
Articulus V: An existant athei theoretici?
Dissertatio II: De natura seu quidditate Dei et Ejus attributis in communi
Articulus I: Quodnam sit constitutivum divinae naturae?
Articulus II: De attributis divinis in communi
Dissertatio III: De attributis in particulari quae pertinent ad divinum esse
Articulus I: De simplicitate Dei
Articulus II: De perfectione Dei
Articulus III: De bonitate Dei
Tractatus I: De infinitate Dei
Tractatus II: De immensitate Dei
Articulus IV: De immutabilitate Dei
Articulus V: De aeternitate Dei
Articulus VI: An Deus sit unus?
Dissertatio IV: De visione Dei a nobis
Articulus I: Utrum Deus, ut est in se, possit videri oculo corporeo?
Articulus II: Utrum intellectus creatus supernaturaliter adiutus possit videre Deum ut in se est?
Articulus III: Utrum aliquis in hac vita viderit, possitve videre Deum ut est in se?
Articulus IV: Utrum essentia divina videatur aut videri possit per aliquam similitudinem seu speciem?
Dissertatio V: De scientia Dei
Articulus I: Utrum in Deo sit scientia proprie dicta, eaque sit attributum?
Articulus II: De obiecto et divisione scientiae Dei
Articulus III: An et quae scientia in Deo sit causa rerum?
Articulus IV: In quo medio Deus cognoscat alia a se?
Dissertatio VI: De praescientia futurorum
Articulus I: Quid et quotuplex sit futurum?
Articulus II: Utrum Deus certo et infallibiliter cognoscat omnia futura absoluta, contingentia et libera?
Articulus III: Quomodo futura sint praesentia in aeternitate?
Articulus IV: In quo medio Deus cognoscat futura absoluta, contingentia et libera?
Articulus V: De scientia futurorum conditionatorum
Articulus VI: De scientia media
Dissertatio VII: De voluntate Dei
Articulus I: De voluntate Dei secundum se, et eius obiecto
Articulus II: De libertate Dei
Articulus III: Quotuplex sit voluntas in Deo, et an semper impleatur?
Articulus IV: De voluntate Dei circa salutem omnium
Articulus V: Utrum Christus sit mortuus pro omnibus omnino hominibus?
Articulus VI: Utrum Deus omnibus provideat auxilia sufficientia ad salutem?
Dissertatio VIII: De praedefinitionibus seu decretis divinis circa actus nostros liberos
Articulus I: Unde repetenda sit infallibilis efficacia divinorum decretorum circa actus nostros liberos?
Articulus II: Solvuntur obiectiones
Dissertatio IX: De providentia, praedestinatione et reprobatione
Articulus I: De providentia
Articulus II: De praedestinatione
Articulus III: Utrum praedestinatio sit ex praevisis meritis, an mere gratuita
Articulus IV: Solvuntur obiectiones contra utramque conclusionem
Articulus V: De reprobatione
Articulus VI: De motivo reprobationis
Tractatus II: Tractatus de SS. Trinitatis Mysterio
Dissertatio I: De Veritate Mysterii SS. Trinitatis
Articulus I
Caput I: § I: Asseritur veritatis mysterii SS. Trinitatis
Caput II: § II Objectiones a ratione contra integrum mysterium
Articulus II: Utrum sanctissimae Trinitatis mysterium possit lumine naturali cognosci?
Dissertatio II: De processionibus divinarum personarum
Articulus I: Utrum in divinis sint processiones?
Articulus II: Unde processio Verbi habeat quod sit generatio, et non processio Spiritus Sancti?
Dissertatio III: De relationibus divinis
Articulus I: An sint et quot sint in Deo relationes reales?
Articulus II: Utrum relationes divinae habeant existentias relativas realiter inter se et virtualiter ab existentia essentiae distinctas?
Articulus III: Utrum relationes divinae, praeter perfectionem absolutam essentiae, afferant aliam relativam?
Dissertatio IV: De Personis Divinis
Articulus I: Utrum personae divinae constituantur relationibus?
Articulus II: Utrum in Deo secundum se considerato et personis praeintellecto sit aliqua subsistentia absoluta, et praeter illam sint insuper tres subsistentiae relativae
Articulus III: Utrum Spiritus sanctus procedat a Filio?
Articulus IV: De missione divinarum personarum
Tractatus III: Tractatus de Deo Creatore
Dissertatio I: De processione creaturarum a Deo
Articulus I: Utrum omne ens sit effective a Deo?
Articulus II: Utrum Deus sit causa exemplaris et finalis omnium rerum?
Articulus III: De modo emanationis rerum a Deo, qui dicitur creatio
Articulus IV: Utrum solius Dei sit creare
Articulus V: Utrum plures mundi sint possibiles, et mundus existens sit perfectus?
Articulus VI: Utrum creaturae indigeant ut a Deo conserventur?
Dissertatio II: De angelis
Articulus I: De existentia et quidditate angelorum
Articulus II: De loco et motu locali angelorum
Articulus III: De pertinentibus ad intellectum et voluntatem angelorum
Articulus IV: De gratia et gloria angelorum
Articulus V: De culpa angelorum
Articulus VI: De poena daemonum
Articulus VII: De locutione et illuminatione angelorum
Articulus VIII: De custodia bonorum angelorum et impugnatione malorum
Dissertatio III: De opere sex dierum
Articulus I: Utrum sex dies creationis sint reales?
Articulus II: Utrum cosmogonia Mosaica everti possit?
Dissertatio IV: De homine
Articulus I: Utrum primi parentes nostri immediate a Deo conditi fuerint?
Articulus II: An et qua ratione homo sit factus ad imaginem Dei?
Articulus III: Quomodo anima humana corpori uniatur?
Articulus IV: Utrum anima rationalis creetur, vel traducatur a parentibus?
Articulus V: Utrum anima rationalis creetur cum corpus humanum primo constituitur, id est in ipsa conceptione?
Articulus VI: Utrum primus homo creatus fuerit in statu gratiae sanctificantis?
Articulus VII: Quarum rerum cognitionem habuerit homo?
Articulus VIII: Utrum Adam innocens inordinatis concupiscentiae motibus fuerit obnoxius?
[I answer in the negative. The sensitive appetite in innocent Adam was so perfectly subject to reason that it was subject to no disordered motions of concupiscence.
This is of faith; for thus it was defined by the Council of Trent, sess. V, can. 5: « Concupiscence, which the Apostle sometimes calls sin, the holy synod declares that the Catholic Church has never understood to be called sin as being truly and properly sin in those born again, but because it is of sin and inclines to sin. But if anyone shall think the contrary, let him be anathema. »
Proof, 1° from Sacred Scripture. Eccles., VII, 30: God made man right. But man would not have been right, if he had been subject to disordered motions of concupiscence. Therefore. It is said, Genes., III, 7: The eyes of them both were opened, and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves aprons; that is, they blushed, because they felt the motions of disordered concupiscence. But they experienced this shame only after sin, for before it had been said, ibid., II, 25: And they were both naked, namely Adam and his wife, and they were not ashamed. Therefore.
Proof, 2° from the authority of St. Augustine interpreting the passage cited above, lib. XI, de Genes. ad litt., c. 1, n. 3: « They were, then, both naked. It is true; the bodies of the two people dwelling in paradise were entirely naked. Nor were they ashamed. For what should have shamed them, when they had felt no law in their members rebelling against the law of their mind? This penalty of sin followed them after the commission of the transgression, disobedience seizing upon what was forbidden, and justice punishing what was committed. Before this came about, they were naked, as has been said, and were not confounded: there was no motion in the body to which shame was owed; they thought nothing needed to be veiled, because they had felt nothing that needed to be restrained. » The other Fathers agree.
Proof, 3° from reason1. The rectitude in which God created man consisted in this: that reason was subject to God, the lower powers to reason, and the body to the soul. But if concupiscence had held sway in the first man, order would not have been perfect in him, and he could not have been called right. Therefore.]