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title: "Summa Theologica, Second Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 192 of 935
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/192/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, Second Half, section 192. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/192/"
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# Summa Theologica, Second Half

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

Courage and temperance, the states of life, then Christ, the sacraments and the last things.

## 192. II–II · Question 186: Of Those Things in Which the Religious State Properly Consists (ten  Articles)

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[¶0] OF THOSE THINGS IN WHICH THE RELIGIOUS STATE PROPERLY CONSISTS (TEN ARTICLES)

[¶1] We must now consider things pertaining to the religious state: which consideration will be fourfold. In the first place we shall consider those things in which the religious state consists chiefly; secondly, those things which are lawfully befitting to religious; thirdly, the different kinds of religious orders; fourthly, the entrance into the religious state.

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

[¶3] (1) Whether the religious state is perfect?

[¶4] (2) Whether religious are bound to all the counsels?

[¶5] (3) Whether voluntary poverty is required for the religious state?

[¶6] (4) Whether continency is necessary?

[¶7] (5) Whether obedience is necessary?

[¶8] (6) Whether it is necessary that these should be the matter of a vow?

[¶9] (7) Of the sufficiency of these vows;

[¶10] (8) Of their comparison one with another;

[¶11] (9) Whether a religious sins mortally whenever he transgresses a statute of his rule?

[¶12] (10) Whether, other things being equal, a religious sins more grievously by the same kind of sin than a secular person?