Disputation — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Disputation X: On the External Effects of Charity
After Charity shall have diminished within the concupiscence and cupidity, it pours itself forth outwardly by doing good; for since it seeks not its own, but by a noble exchange turns the miseries of others into its own happiness, it is wholly devoted to benefits, and is especially occupied with corporal relief through Almsgiving, or spiritual instruction through fraternal correction.
Postquam interius concupiscentiam, et cupiditatem Charitas minuerit, foras benefaciendo se profundit; Cum enim sua non quaerat, sed nobili quaestu aliorum miserias, proprii foelicitatis commutatione, suas faciat; tota beneficentiis mancipatur, et corporali sublevatione per Eleemosynam, aut spirituali eruditione per fraternam correctionem praecipue occupatur.
Within this disputation
Section II: On Almsgiving
- Question I: Whether to give alms is an act of charity
- Question II: Whether the kinds of almsgiving are fittingly distinguished
- Question III: Whether almsgiving is a matter of precept
- Question IV: Whether there is a precept to give superfluities to the poor in common necessities
- Question V: Whether anyone is bound at some time to give alms from things necessary to his state, apart from the extreme necessity of the neighbor
- Question VI: Whether alms is owed in justice to one in extreme need
- Question VII: Whether alms ought to be given from justly possessed goods