Treatise — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Treatise IV: On Vows
Contents
- Prologue
Disputation I: On the Vow
- Question I: What a vow is, and what its conditions are
- Question II: What deliberation is required for a vow
- Question III: Whether one who promises something to God, knowing the obligation yet intending not to bind himself, is bound by the vow
- Question IV: Whether a votive promise is made to God alone
- Question V: How error or ignorance concerning a vow causes involuntariness
- Question VI: Whether fear inflicted on another makes a vow invalid
- Question VII: Whether a necessary thing can be the matter of a vow
- Question VIII: Whether a vow is only about some good
- Question IX: Whether a vow is only of the better good, or also of a lesser good
- Question X: Whether a vow of a thing that can have a good or an evil outcome is valid
- Question XI: Whether any obligation arises from a vow, and what it is
- Question XII: Whether those under the age of puberty are bound by vows
- Question XIII: What the power of annulling vows is, and what kind
- Question XIV: On the power of religious prelates to annul vows
- Question XV: Whether a husband can annul all the vows of his wife, beyond the vow of chastity
- Question XVI: Whether a husband can annul a vow of chastity made by his wife without his permission while the marriage stands, and to be fulfilled then
- Question XVII: Whether a husband can annul the vows of his wife, made without his permission, to be fulfilled when the marriage has been dissolved
- Question XVIII: Whether a husband can annul the vows of his wife made before the marriage
- Question XIX: Whether the vows of a wife, made without her husband's permission, revive when the marriage is dissolved
- Question XX: Whether a husband can annul the vows of his wife made with his permission, the vow of chastity excepted
- Question XXI: Whether a husband can revoke the vow of chastity of his wife, made with his permission
- Question XXII: Whether a husband can annul the vows of his wife made while she was under the authority of her father or of a first husband
- Question XXIII: Whether a wife can annul certain vows of her husband, and which
- Question XXIV: Whether parents or guardians can annul all the vows of their children under the age of puberty
- Question XXV: Whether a father and a curator can annul the personal vows of children who have reached puberty
- Question XXVI: Which real or mixed vows of children who have reached puberty can be annulled by the father
- Question XXVII: To whom belongs the faculty of annulling the vows of those who have, and those who have not, reached puberty
- Question XXVIII: Which vows of servants their masters can annul
- Question XXIX: Whether in the Church there is power to dispense from vows
- Question XXX: Whether a cause is required for a dispensation, and which
- Question XXXI: Whether, and how, the commutation of vows is to be made
- Question XXXII: Whether commutation requires a cause
- Question XXXIII: Which vows can be commuted by the ordinary power of prelates
Disputation II: On the Religious State, or on Solemn Vows
Section I: On the Vows of Religious in Common
- 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
Disputation III: On the Vow of Obedience
- Question I: Whether the vow of obedience is chief among the religious vows
- Question II: What obedience is promised in religion
- Question III: Whether religious are bound to obey prelates in all things
- Question IV: Whether one doubting whether the thing commanded is lawful is bound to obey the prelate
- Question V: Whether all the statutes of religious orders bind under sin
Disputation IV: On the Vow of Poverty
- Question I: On the essence of this vow
- Question II: Which poverty is more excellent
- Question III: Whether mendicancy befits religious poverty
- Question IV: Whether religious ought, on account of poverty, to wear mean clothing
- Question V: Whether austerity of food is owed to religious poverty
Question VI: How poverty is violated
- Doubt I: Whether prelates can grant religious an annual allowance
- Doubt II: Whether a religious who has superfluities by his superior's permission is a proprietor
- Doubt III: Whether a religious sins by accepting alms for others
- Doubt IV: Whether a legacy to a religious stands, as belonging to him personally
- Question VII: On the penalties and the marks of a proprietor
Disputation V: On the Vow of Chastity
- Question I: What difference there is between cloistered and clerical chastity
- Question II: From what time the solemn vow of chastity began to make a subsequent marriage invalid
- Question III: Whether one who solemnly vows chastity dissolves a marriage, whether consummated or ratified, and by what law and from what time this began to be done
- Question IV: By what law, and from what time, religious chastity began to be sealed by enclosure
- Question VI: Whether dispensation can be granted in religious chastity, and who can dispense in enclosure
Disputation VI: On the Oath
- Question I: What an oath is, and of how many kinds
- Question II: Whether it is lawful to swear by God
- Question III: Whether it is lawful to swear by creatures
- Question IV: What is required for an oath
- Question V: Whether, and how, it is a sin to swear without truth
- Question VI: Whether an oath made without justice is a sin, and what sin
- Question VII: Whether an oath lacking judgment is a sin, and what sin
- Question VIII: Whether, and how, a custom of swearing is evil
- Question IX: When one who swears incautiously from habit sins mortally
- Question X: What sin it is to swear deceitfully
- Question XI: Whether it is lawful to exact an oath from one who will perjure himself
- Question XII: Whether, and when, it is lawful to exact an oath from an idolater
- Question XIII: On the obligation of a promissory oath in itself
- Question XIV: Whether deceitful oaths bind
- Question XV: Whether an oath extorted by injury, such as an oath to pay usury, binds
- Question XVI: Whether an oath extorted by fear binds
- Question XVII: Whether an oath given through fraud, error, or ignorance is void
- Question XVIII: Whether an incautious promissory oath binds
- Question XIX: Whether an oath confirms contracts that could otherwise be voided
- Question XX: On the ways of removing the obligation of an oath
- Question XXI: On the penalties imposed on perjurers
Disputation VIII: On the Observance of Feast Days
- Question I: On the origin of feast days
- Question II: Whose it is to institute feasts to be kept under mortal sin
- Question III: Whether mortal sins on a feast are forbidden by this precept
- Question IV: Whether lawful liberal work becomes servile because it is done for gain
- Question VI: What length of servile labor makes a grave violation of a feast
- Question VII: On the causes excusing from violation of a feast
- Question VIII: Whether, having heard Mass only, it is forbidden to spend the whole feast day in idleness
Disputation IX: On Superstition
- Question I: What superstition is, and of how many kinds
- Question II: On divination by the stars
- Question III: On divination by the elements, and other mixed things
- Question IV: On divination from dreams
- Question V: On sorcery by lots
- Question VI: On superstitious observances for works
- Question VII: On the spells of witches
- Question VIII: Whether it is lawful to consult witches so that they may at least remove spells
- Question IX: On the penalties of witches, etc.
Disputation XIII: On the Other Virtues Annexed to Justice
Section I: On Piety
- Question I: What piety is, and what kind of virtue
- Question II: What reverence is to be shown to parents
- Question III: What obedience is to be shown to parents by children
- Question IV: How, and when, children are bound to relieve their parents
- Question V: On the obligation of parents toward their children
- Question VI: In which cases parents can disinherit their children
- Question VII: Whether children can ever refuse sustenance to their parents, and disinherit them
- Question VIII: To what a woman is bound who has a son by adultery, or has passed off a child as her husband's
- Question IX: On the mutual obligation of servants and masters
- Question X: On the obligation of brothers toward brothers and sisters, and conversely
Section V: On Truth, Friendship, Liberality, Epikeia, and the Opposed Vices; on the Gift of Piety and the Precepts of the Decalogue That Concern Justice
- Question I: On truth
Question II: On lying
- Doubt I: What a lie is
- Doubt II: Of how many kinds is a lie
- Doubt III: Whether every lie is intrinsically a sin
- Doubt IV: Whether a lie is mortal of its kind
- Doubt V: Whether every lie is mortal for perfect men
- Doubt VI: Whether among the degrees of lying there is a gravest and a lightest
- Doubt VII: On the other things that are reduced to lying
- Question III: On friendship
- Question V: On epikeia
- Question VI: On the gift of piety