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title: "Summa Theologica, Second Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 279 of 935
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/279/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, Second Half, section 279. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/279/"
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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.

## 279. III · Question 16: Of Those Things Which Are Applicable to Christ in His Being and Becoming  (twelve Articles)

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[¶0] OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE APPLICABLE TO CHRIST IN HIS BEING AND BECOMING (TWELVE ARTICLES)

[¶1] We must now consider the consequences of the union; and first as to what belongs to Christ in Himself; secondly, as to what belongs to Christ in relation with His Father; thirdly, as to what belongs to Christ in relation to us.

[¶2] Concerning the first, there occurs a double consideration. The first is about such things as belong to Christ in being and becoming; the second regards such things as belong to Christ by reason of unity.

[¶3] Under the first head there are twelve points of inquiry:

[¶4] (1) Whether this is true: "God is man"?

[¶5] (2) Whether this is true: "Man is God"?

[¶6] (3) Whether Christ may be called a lordly man?

[¶7] (4) Whether what belongs to the Son of Man may be predicated of the Son of God, and conversely?

[¶8] (5) Whether what belongs to the Son of Man may be predicated of the Divine Nature, and what belongs to the Son of God of the human nature?

[¶9] (6) Whether this is true: "The Son of God was made man"?

[¶10] (7) Whether this is true: "Man became God"?

[¶11] (8) Whether this is true: "Christ is a creature"?

[¶12] (9) Whether this is true: "This man," pointing out Christ, "began to be"? or "always was"?

[¶13] (10) Whether this is true: "Christ as man is a creature"?

[¶14] (11) Whether this is true: "Christ as man is God"?

[¶15] (12) Whether this is true: "Christ as man is a hypostasis or person"?