Section — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Section I: On the Vows of Religious in Common
As in ancient times in the Mosaic law there were some sacrifices which the people offered to God in part, and others which they offered totally; so in the law of grace the Church dedicates some to God in part through simple vows, but devotes others totally through solemn vows; for those are accustomed to fall upon some particular thing; but these heal the whole man, by taking away those three sicknesses with which almost the whole world is infected, according to the saying of D. John, everything that is in the world is either the concupiscence of the eyes, or the concupiscence of the flesh, or the pride of life; yet the solemnity or simplicity of vows does not arise from this totality or partiality alone, as will be discussed shortly.
De votis Religiosorum in communi.
Ut antiquitus in lege Mosaica alia erant sacrificia, quae partim populus Deo offerre, talia vero quae totaliter; ita in lege gratiae Ecclesia alios partim Deo dedicat per vota simplicia, alios vero totaliter devovet per vota solemnia; illa enim solent cadere supra rem aliquam particularem; haec autem totum hominem sanant, tres illas aegritudines auferendo, quibus totus fere mundus inficitur, iuxta dictum D. Ioannis, omne quod est in mundo aut concupiscentia oculorum est, aut concupiscentia carnis, aut superbia vitae; non tamen ex hac solum totalitate, vel partialitate oritur votorum solemnitas, aut simplicitas, ut mox discutietur.
Within this section
- Question I: In what solemn vows differ from simple vows
- Question II: Whether solemn vows are necessary to the religious state
- Question III: Whether, and how, this state is holy
- Question IV: Whether the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience are essential to the religious state
- Question V: Whether the Pontiff can dispense in solemn vows
- Question VI: Who are to be received into religion
- Question VII: On novices
- Question VIII: What is required for profession in religion
- Question IX: Whether, and how, religious are bound to perfection
- Question X: Whence the greater perfection of a religious order is to be judged
- Question XI: On passing to another religious order
- Question XII: On the expulsion of religious
- Question XIII: Whether every religious is bound to all the counsels
- Question XIV: Whether religious ought to teach, preach, etc.
- Question XV: Whether religious ought to labor with their hands
- Question XVI: Whether it is lawful for religious to transact secular business