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title: "Summa Theologica, Second Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 212 of 935
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/212/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, Second Half, section 212. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/212/"
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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.

## 212. II–II · Question 189: Of the Entrance Into Religious Life (ten Articles)

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[¶0] OF THE ENTRANCE INTO RELIGIOUS LIFE (TEN ARTICLES)

[¶1] We must now consider the entrance into religious life. Under this head there are ten points of inquiry:

[¶2] (1) Whether those who are not practiced in the observance of the commandments should enter religion?

[¶3] (2) Whether it is lawful for a person to be bound by vow to enter religion?

[¶4] (3) Whether those who are bound by vow to enter religion are bound to fulfil their vow?

[¶5] (4) Whether those who vow to enter religion are bound to remain there in perpetuity?

[¶6] (5) Whether children should be received into religion?

[¶7] (6) Whether one should be withheld from entering religion through deference to one's parents?

[¶8] (7) Whether parish priests or archdeacons may enter religion?

[¶9] (8) Whether one may pass from one religious order to another?

[¶10] (9) Whether one ought to induce others to enter religion?

[¶11] (10) Whether serious deliberation with one's relations and friends is requisite for entrance into religion?