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title: "Summa Theologica, First Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 824 of 1210
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-first-half/824/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, First Half, section 824. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-first-half/824/"
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# Summa Theologica, First Half

*Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province*

God and creation, human action, law and grace, then faith, hope, charity and justice.

## 824. II–II · Question 4: Of the Virtue Itself of Faith (eight Articles)

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[¶0] OF THE VIRTUE ITSELF OF FAITH (EIGHT ARTICLES)

[¶1] We must now consider the virtue itself of faith, and, in the first place, faith itself; secondly, those who have faith; thirdly, the cause of faith; fourthly, its effects.

[¶2] Under the first head there are eight points of inquiry:

[¶3] (1) What is faith?

[¶4] (2) In what power of the soul does it reside?

[¶5] (3) Whether its form is charity?

[¶6] (4) Whether living [formata] faith and lifeless [informis] faith are one identically?

[¶7] (5) Whether faith is a virtue?

[¶8] (6) Whether it is one virtue?

[¶9] (7) Of its relation to the other virtues;

[¶10] (8) Of its certitude as compared with the certitude of the intellectual virtues.