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Treatise on Law (Q by Q) by Thomas Aquinas

TREATISE ON LAW FROM THE SUMMA THEOLOGICA, PART I OF SECOND PART, QQ. 90-108

Aquinas, Saint Thomas (c. 1274). Treatise on Law. Trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Summa Theologica. New York: Benzinger Brothers, 1920.

[edit] CONCISE TABLE OF CONTENTS

(II)(I) 4. TREATISE ON LAW (QQ 90-108)

<-- Treatise on Habits (part 2b) (QQ 71-89) --- Treatise on Grace (QQ 109-114) -->

1. IN GENERAL

Q. 90: Of the Essence of Law

Q. 91: Of the Various Kinds of Law

Q. 92: Of the Effects of Law

2. IN PARTICULAR

Q. 93: Of the Eternal Law

Q. 94: Of the Natural Law

Q. 95: Of Human Law

Q. 96: Of the Power of Human Law

Q. 97: Of Change in Laws

Q. 98: Of the Old Law

Q. 99: Of the Precepts of the Old Law

Q. 100: Of the Moral Precepts of the Old Law

Q. 101: Of the Ceremonial Precepts in Themselves

Q. 102: Of the Causes of the Ceremonial Precepts

Q. 103: Of the Duration of the Ceremonial Precepts

Q. 104: Of the Judicial Precepts

Q. 105: Of the Reason for the Judicial Precepts

Q. 106: Of the Law of the Gospel, Called the New Law, Considered in Itself

Q. 107: Of the New Law as Compared with the Old

Q. 108: Of Those Things That Are Contained in the New Law

[edit] PROLOGUE

We have now to consider the extrinsic principles of acts. Now the extrinsic principle inclining to evil is the devil, of whose temptations we have spoken in the FP, Q114. But the extrinsic principle moving to good is God, Who both instructs us by means of His Law, and assists us by His Grace: wherefore in the first place we must speak of law; in the second place, of grace.

Concerning law, we must consider:

(1) Law itself in general; (QQ. 90-92)

(2) its parts. (QQ. 93-108)

[edit] LAW IN GENERAL

^TOC ^Prologue

Concerning law in general three points offer themselves for our consideration:

(1) Its essence; (Q. 90)

(2) The different kinds of law; (Q. 91)

(3) The effects of law. (Q. 92)

[edit] LAW IN PARTICULAR

^TOC ^Prologue ^Law in General

We must now consider each law by itself; and

(1) The eternal law; (Q. 93)

(2) The natural law; (Q. 94)

(3) The human law; (QQ. 95-97)

(4) The old law; (QQ 98-105)

(5) The new law, which is the law of the Gospel. (QQ 106-108)

Of the sixth law which is the law of the "fomes," suffice what we have said when treating of original sin.