Book — Billuart, Summa Summae · from Schola Thomistica
On Sins
Contents
On the Causes of Sins
- Whether, and what, ignorance is a cause of sin, and is itself a sin?
- Whether there can be invincible ignorance of positive divine law?
- Whether there can be invincible ignorance of the law of nature?
- Whether invincible ignorance of the law of nature excuses from sin?
- On inadvertence to sin
- Whether ignorance excuses from the penalties established by positive laws?
- Whether God is a cause of sin?
On Original Sin
- Whether there is an original sin transmitted from Adam to his posterity?
- Various questions on the transmission of original sin briefly resolved
- Whether the most blessed Virgin Mary contracted original sin in her Conception?
- Whether St. Thomas denied that the blessed Virgin Mother of God was immune from original sin?
- In what the essence of original sin consists?
On Mortal and Venial Sin
- Whether there is venial sin distinct from mortal by its own nature?
- In what, and how, mortal and venial sin differ from one another?
- Whether venial sin disposes to mortal, and can become mortal, and mortal contrariwise become venial?
- What is the last end of the one sinning mortally, and of the one sinning venially?
- Whether mortal sin, as an offense, is of simply infinite gravity?
- Whether man, in the first moral instant of the use of reason, is bound to turn himself to God; and whether venial sin can exist with original sin alone?