Summa Contra Gentiles Book III Chapter 1 — Prologue Chapter 2 — That every agent acts for an end Chapter 3 — That every agent acts for a good Chapter 4 — That evil is unintentional in things Chapter 5 — Arguments that would seem to prove that evil is not beside the intention Chapter 6 — Answers to these arguments Chapter 7 — That evil is not an essence Chapter 8 — Arguments whereby it seems to be proved that evil is a nature or a thing Chapter 9 — Answers to these arguments Chapter 10 — That the cause of evil is a good Chapter 11 — That the subject of evil is a good Chapter 12 — That evil does not entirely destroy good Chapter 13 — That evil has a cause of some kind Chapter 14 — That evil is an accidental cause Chapter 15 — That there is no highest evil Chapter 16 — That the end of everything is a good Chapter 17 — That all things are directed to one end, which is God Chapter 18 — How God is the end of things Chapter 19 — That all things tend to be like unto God Chapter 20 — How things imitate the divine goodness Chapter 21 — That things have a natural tendency to be like God in that he is a cause Chapter 22 — How things are directed in various ways to their respective ends Chapter 23 — That the movement of the heaven is from an intellective principle Chapter 24 — How even things devoid of knowledge seek the good Chapter 25 — That to know God is the end of every intelligent substance Chapter 26 — Whether happiness consists in an act of the will Chapter 27 — That human happiness does not consist in carnal pleasures Chapter 28 — That happiness does not consist in honors Chapter 29 — That man’s happiness consists not in glory Chapter 30 — That man’s happiness does not consist in wealth Chapter 31 — That happiness consists not in worldly power Chapter 32 — That happiness consists not in goods of the body Chapter 33 — That human happiness is not seated in the senses Chapter 34 — That man’s ultimate happiness does not consist in acts of moral virtue Chapter 35 — That ultimate happiness does not consist in the act of prudence Chapter 36 — That happiness does not consist in the practice of art Chapter 37 — That man’s ultimate happiness consists in contemplating God Chapter 38 — That human happiness does not consist in the knowledge of God which is possessed generally by the majority Chapter 39 — That man’s happiness does not consist in the knowledge of God acquired by demonstration Chapter 40 — That man’s happiness does not consist in the knowledge of God by faith Chapter 41 — Whether it is possible for man in this life to understand separate substances by the study and inquiry of speculative sciences Chapter 42 — That in this life we are unable to know separate substances in the manner proposed by Alexander Chapter 43 — That we cannot understand separate substances in this life in the manner suggested by Averroes Chapter 44 — That man’s ultimate happiness does not consist in the knowledge of separate substances as pretended by the aforesaid opinions Chapter 45 — That it is impossible in this life to understand separate substances Chapter 46 — That in this life the soul does not understand itself by itself Chapter 47 — That in this life we are unable to see God in his essence Chapter 48 — That man’s ultimate happiness is not in this life Chapter 49 — That separate substances do not see God in his essence through knowing him by their own essences Chapter 50 — That the natural desire of the separate substances is not set at rest in the natural knowledge they have of God Chapter 51 — How God may be seen in his essence Chapter 52 — That no created substance can by its natural power arrive at seeing God in his essence Chapter 53 — That the created intellect needs a ray of the divine light in order to see God in his essence Chapter 54 — Arguments that would seem to prove that God cannot be seen in his essence, and their solution Chapter 55 — That the created intellect does not comprehend the divine substance Chapter 56 — That no created intellect, in seeing God, sees all that can be seen in him Chapter 57 — That every intellect of any degree can participate in the divine vision Chapter 58 — That it is possible for one to see God more perfectly than another Chapter 59 — How those who see the divine substance see all things Chapter 60 — That those who see God see all in him at once Chapter 61 — That by seeing God a man is made a partaker of eternal life Chapter 62 — That those who see God will see him forever Chapter 63 — How in that ultimate happiness man’s every desire is fulfilled Chapter 64 — That God governs things by his providence Chapter 65 — That God preserves things in existence Chapter 66 — That nothing gives existence except insofar as it acts by God’s power Chapter 67 — That in all things that operate God is the cause of their operating Chapter 68 — That God is everywhere Chapter 69 — Concerning the opinion of those who withdraw from natural things their proper actions Chapter 70 — How the same effect is from God and from the natural agent Chapter 71 — That divine providence does not entirely exclude evil from things Chapter 72 — That divine providence does not exclude contingency from things Chapter 73 — That divine providence does not exclude free-will Chapter 74 — That divine providence does not exclude chance or luck Chapter 75 — That divine providence is concerned with singular contingencies Chapter 76 — That God’s providence cares for all individuals immediately Chapter 77 — That the execution of divine providence is carried out by secondary causes Chapter 78 — That by means of intellectual creatures other creatures are ruled by God Chapter 79 — That the lower intellectual substances are ruled by the higher Chapter 80 — Of the order between one angel and another Chapter 81 — Of the ordering of men among themselves and to other things Chapter 82 — That the inferior bodies are ruled by God by means of the heavenly bodies Chapter 83 — Conclusion of the foregoing Chapter 84 — That the heavenly bodies do not impress on our intellect Chapter 85 — That the heavenly bodies are not the cause of our willing and choosing Chapter 86 — That corporeal effects in this lower world do not result of necessity from the action of the heavenly bodies Chapter 87 — That the movement of a heavenly body is not the cause of our choosing by virtue of its soul moving us, as some say Chapter 88 — That created substances cannot be the direct causes of our acts of choosing and willing, but God alone Chapter 89 — That the movement of the will is caused by God, and not only the power of the will Chapter 90 — That human choice and will are subject to divine providence Chapter 91 — How human affairs may be referred to higher causes Chapter 92 — How a man may be said to be fortunate, and how he is assisted by higher causes Chapter 93 — Concerning fate: whether it is, and what it is Chapter 94 — Of the certainty of divine providence Chapter 95 — That the unchangeableness of divine providence does not exclude the usefulness of prayer Chapter 96 — That it is not unfitting if sometimes the petitions of those who pray be not granted by God Chapter 97 — How there is a reason for divine providence Chapter 98 — How it is possible, and how it is impossible, for God to do something outside the order of his providence Chapter 99 — That God can work outside the order imposed on things by producing effects without their proximate causes Chapter 100 — That what God does beside the order of nature is not contrary to nature Chapter 101 — Of miracles Chapter 102 — That God alone works miracles Chapter 103 — That spiritual substances do wonders which, however, are not miracles properly speaking Chapter 104 — That the works of magicians result not only from the influence of heavenly bodies Chapter 105 — Whence the works of magicians derive their efficacy Chapter 106 — That the intellectual substance which gives efficacy to the practices of magic is not good according to virtue Chapter 107 — That the intellectual substance whose assistance is employed in the magic arts is not evil in its nature Chapter 108 — Arguments that would seem to prove that there can be no sin in the demons Chapter 109 — That sin is possible in the demons, and how Chapter 110 — Solution of the aforesaid arguments Chapter 111 — That rational creatures are subject to divine providence in a special manner Chapter 112 — That rational creatures are governed for their own sake, and other creatures as directed to them Chapter 113 — That the rational creature is directed to its action by God not only in its relation to the species, but also in its relation to the individual Chapter 114 — That laws are given by God to man Chapter 115 — That the divine law directs man chiefly to God Chapter 116 — That the end of God’s law is the love of God Chapter 117 — That we are directed by the divine law to the love of our neighbor Chapter 118 — That the divine law binds men to the true faith Chapter 119 — That our mind is directed to God by certain sensible things Chapter 120 — That the worship of <i>latria</i> is due to God alone Chapter 121 — That the divine law directs man according to reason as regards things corporeal and sensible Chapter 122 — How simple fornication is a sin according to the divine law, and that matrimony is natural Chapter 123 — That matrimony should be indissoluble Chapter 124 — That matrimony should be the union of one man with one woman Chapter 125 — That marriage should not be contracted between relatives Chapter 126 — That not all carnal intercourse is sinful Chapter 127 — That no food is in itself sinful for one to take Chapter 128 — How by the divine law man is directed to his neighbor Chapter 129 — That some human acts are right by nature, and not because they are prescribed by law Chapter 130 — Of the counsels given in the divine law Chapter 131 — Concerning the error of those who condemn voluntary poverty Chapter 132 — Of the ways of life followed by those who embrace voluntary poverty Chapter 133 — How poverty is good Chapter 134 — Solution of the arguments given above against poverty Chapter 135 — Solution of the objections urged against the various ways of life followed by those who embrace voluntary poverty Chapter 136 — Concerning the error of those who condemn perpetual continence Chapter 137 — That the state of continence is more perfect than the state of marriage Chapter 138 — Against those who condemn vows Chapter 139 — That neither merits nor sins are equal Chapter 140 — That man’s actions are punished or rewarded by God Chapter 141 — Of the difference and order of punishments Chapter 142 — That punishments and rewards are not all equal Chapter 143 — Of the punishment due to mortal and venial sin in relation to the last end Chapter 144 — That by mortal sin man forfeits his last end for eternity Chapter 145 — That sins are punished also by the sinner being subjected to some kind of pain Chapter 146 — That it is lawful for judges to inflict punishments Chapter 147 — That man needs the divine assistance in order to obtain beatitude Chapter 148 — That the assistance of divine grace does not compel man to virtue Chapter 149 — That man is unable to merit the divine assistance Chapter 150 — That this same assistance is called grace, and what is meant by sanctifying grace Chapter 151 — That sanctifying grace causes in us the love of God Chapter 152 — That grace causes faith in us Chapter 153 — That divine grace causes hope in us Chapter 154 — Of the gifts of gratuitous grace; in which the divinations of demons are treated Chapter 155 — That man needs the divine aid in order to persevere in good Chapter 156 — That he who falls away from grace by sin can recover again by means of grace Chapter 157 — That man cannot be freed from sin save by grace Chapter 158 — How man is freed from sin Chapter 159 — That although man cannot be converted to God without God’s grace, yet it is reasonably imputed to him if he be not converted Chapter 160 — That a man who is in sin cannot avoid sin without grace Chapter 161 — That God delivers some from sin, and leaves others in sin Chapter 162 — That God is not the cause of any man sinning Chapter 163 — Of predestination, reprobation, and the divine election
