Treatise — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Treatise VII: On the Various States and Offices of Men
Contents
- Prologue
Disputation II: On the State of the Bishop
- Question I: Whether a bishop is in the state of perfection
- Question II: What kind of man he must be who is raised to the episcopate
- Question III: Whether it is lawful to seek or to refuse the episcopate
- Question IV: Whether residence is necessary for bishops, and by what law
- Question V: Whether the Church, and bishops, have dominion over certain temporal things
- Question VI: Whether bishops, and other ecclesiastics, have dominion over revenues that are superfluous to their state
- Question VII: Whether those bishops who were formerly religious are bound to regular observance
Disputation III: On the State of Regular Prelacy
- Question I: Whether the state of regular prelacy is necessary in a religious order
- Question II: How the prelate of a religious order is to be chosen
- Question III: How many prelates there are in one religious order, and what order among them
- Question IV: Whether it befits a regular prelate to remain long in the same office
- Question V: Whether a religious prelate has the power of coercing subjects with penalties, both spiritual and corporal
- Question VI: What solemnities a regular prelate, acting in judgment, is bound to observe
- Question VII: Whether appeal can be made from a regular prelate or judge
- Question VIII: Who is the judge from whom, and to whom, appeal is made
- Question IX: Whether a regular prelate can dispense his subject, which subject, and in what
- Question X: What power a regular prelate has to absolve, both from sins and from penalties
- Question XI: Whether a regular prelate has the power to administer temporal things, and what power
- Question XII: Whether regular prelates can do anything concerning the conferring of orders and the blessing of things or places, and what
Last Disputation: On the State of the Active and the Contemplative Life
- Question I: Whether the division of life into active and contemplative is sufficient
- Question II: Which state is more excellent: the state of the active life, or of the contemplative
- Question III: Whether there is a mixed life resulting from the active and the contemplative, and which of them is more excellent
- Question V: On the chief act of the contemplative life, and how this act differs from cogitation, meditation, speculation, and intuitive vision
- Question VI: Whether contemplation has certain degrees of its perfection, how many, and which