viii (Did. The body of Christ remains in this sacrament not only until the morrow, but also in the future, so long as the sacramental species remain: and when they cease, Christ's body ceases to be under them, not because it depends on them, but because the relationship of Christ's body to those species is taken away, in the same way as God ceases to be the Lord of a creature which ceases to exist. It discusses topics central to Christian morality, ethics, law, and the life of Christ, providing philosophical and theological solutions to common arguments and questions surrounding the Christian faith. From this it is clear how false are the opinions of those who maintained the existence of some mediate bodies between the soul and body of man. The Existence of God 3. For since the Godhead never set aside the assumed body, wherever the body of Christ is, there, of necessity, must the Godhead be; and therefore it is necessary for the Godhead to be in this sacrament concomitantly with His body. Reply to Objection 4. Therefore the intellectual principle is the form of man. And this seems to happen when to one person it is seen under the species of flesh or of a child, while to others it is seen as before under the species of bread; or when to the same individual it appears for an hour under the appearance of flesh or a child, and afterwards under the appearance of bread. If, however, the intellectual soul is united to the body as the substantial form, as we have already said above (Article 1), it is impossible for any accidental disposition to come between the body and the soul, or between any substantial form whatever and its matter. Objection 2. Objection 1. However, St. Aquinas provides five ways that prove that God exists and the world belongs to him. 78: Usury, or Interest on Money Lent: Therefore it behooved the intellectual soul to be united to a body fitted to be a convenient organ of sense. It would seem that the whole soul is not in each part of the body; for the Philosopher says in De causa motus animalium (De mot. Edus. Therefore it is not united to the body as its form. Further, Christ's body begins to be in this sacrament by consecration and conversion, as was said above (III:75:2-4). Therefore, on the withdrawal of the soul, as we do not speak of an animal or a man unless equivocally, as we speak of a painted animal or a stone animal; so is it with the hand, the eye, the flesh and bones, as the Philosopher says (De Anima ii, 1). Objection 2. New English Translation of St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae (Summa Theologica) by Alfred J. Freddoso University of Notre Dame Pars Secunda-Secundae (Part 2-2) Table of contents: Part 2-2: Faith: . For the common nature is understood as apart from the individuating principles; whereas such is not its mode of existence outside the soul. v, 1), since it is a being only potentially; indeed everything that is moved is a body. Because those species can be divided infinitely. Our bodily eye, on account of the sacramental species, is hindered from beholding the body of Christ underlying them, not merely as by way of veil (just as we are hindered from seeing what is covered with any corporeal veil), but also because Christ's body bears a relation to the medium surrounding this sacrament, not through its own accidents, but through the sacramental species. Animal. Theol.Imprimatur. The Summa is organized into three Parts. Therefore the entire Christ is not contained under this sacrament. This argument deals with accidental movement, whereby things within us are moved together with us. It seems that the body of Christ, as it is in this sacrament, can be seen by the eye, at least by a glorified one. Man must therefore derive his species from that which is the principle of this operation. Averroes maintained that the forms of elements, by reason of their imperfection, are a medium between accidental and substantial forms, and so can be "more" or "less"; and therefore in the mixture they are modified and reduced to an average, so that one form emerges from them. Edus. Therefore the forms of the elements must remain in a mixed body; and these are substantial forms. Reply to Objection 3. Thus are all other consecrations irremovable so long as the consecrated things endure; on which account they are not repeated. Therefore the intellectual principle is not united to the body as its form. Augustine speaks there of the soul as it moves the body; whence he uses the word "administration." Reply to Objection 1. vii, 19), that "the soul administers the body by light," that is, by fire, "and by air, which is most akin to a spirit." By the power of the sacrament, there is under the species of this sacrament that into which the pre-existing substance of the bread and wine is changed, as expressed by the words of the form, which are effective in this as in the other sacraments; for instance, by the words: "This is My body," or, "This is My blood." For it is manifest that, supposing there is one principal agent, and two instruments, we can say that there is one agent absolutely, but several actions; as when one man touches several things with his two hands, there will be one who touches, but two contacts. Therefore in man the essence of the intellectual soul, the sensitive soul, and the nutritive soul, cannot be the same. For as every action is according to the mode of the form by which the agent acts, as heating is according to the mode of the heat; so knowledge is according to the mode of the species by which the knower knows. For although it is essentially the same form which gives matter the various degrees of perfection, as we have said (Reply to Objection 1), yet it is considered as different when brought under the observation of reason. Nevertheless, since the substance of Christ's body is not really deprived of its dimensive quantity and its other accidents, hence it comes that by reason of real concomitance the whole dimensive quantity of Christ's body and all its other accidents are in this sacrament. It seems that the whole dimensive quantity of Christ's body is not in this sacrament. The embryo has first of all a soul which is merely sensitive, and when this is removed, it is supplanted by a more perfect soul, which is both sensitive and intellectual: as will be shown further on (I:118:2 ad 2). Objection 2. Aa Aa. For the Philosopher says (De Anima iii, 4) that the intellect is "separate," and that it is not the act of any body. Reply to Objection 2. Therefore the more the organ of touch is reduced to an equable complexion, the more sensitive will be the touch. But the phantasm itself is not a form of the possible intellect; it is the intelligible species abstracted from the phantasm that is a form. catholicism angels st-thomas-aquinas summa-theologica metaphysics user60527 asked Nov 2, 2022 at 22:05 1 vote 1 answer 111 views Therefore, as a surface which is of a pentagonal shape, is not tetragonal by one shape, and pentagonal by anothersince a tetragonal shape would be superfluous as contained in the pentagonalso neither is Socrates a man by one soul, and animal by another; but by one and the same soul he is both animal and man. But when such apparitions occur, it is evident that Christ is not present under His own species, because the entire Christ is contained in this sacrament, and He remains entire under the form in which He ascended to heaven: yet what appears miraculously in this sacrament is sometimes seen as a small particle of flesh, or at times as a small child. But with regard to the intellectual part, he seems to leave it in doubt whether it be "only logically" distinct from the other parts of the soul, "or also locally.". Further, whatever has per se existence is not united to the body as its form; because a form is that by which a thing exists: so that the very existence of a form does not belong to the form by itself. In order to make this evident, we must consider that the substantial form differs from the accidental form in this, that the accidental form does not make a thing to be "simply," but to be "such," as heat does not make a thing to be simply, but only to be hot. x): "It is not necessary for the soul to be in each part of the body; it suffices that it be in some principle of the body causing the other parts to live, for each part has a natural movement of its own.". This is, however, absurd for many reasons. On the contrary, The existence of the dimensive quantity of any body cannot be separated from the existence of its substance. Therefore, it cannot begin again to be there by the consecration of the wine; and so Christ's body will not be contained under the species of the wine, and accordingly neither the entire Christ. But primary matter cannot be moved (Phys. Question. Therefore there is but one intellect in all men. The second part addresses ethics, habits, law, faith, wisdom, self-control, morality, prophecy, miracles, and the contemplative life. If, however, the soul is united to the body as its form, as we have said (Article 1), it is impossible for it to be united by means of another body. F. Beda Jarrett, O.P., S.T.L., A.M., Prior Provincialis AngliMARI IMMACULAT - SEDI SAPIENTI. Further, the order of forms depends on their relation to primary matter; for "before" and "after" apply by comparison to some beginning. The Nature and Extent of Sacred Doctrine 2. A sign of which is that we observe "those who are refined in body are well endowed in mind," as stated in De Anima ii, 9. And not even the angelic intellect of its own natural power is capable of beholding it; consequently the devils cannot by their intellect perceive Christ in this sacrament, except through faith, to which they do not pay willing assent; yet they are convinced of it from the evidence of signs, according to James 2:19: "The devils believe, and tremble.". For although sensibility does not give incorruptibility, yet it cannot deprive intellectuality of its incorruptibility. Reply to Objection 2. I answer that, It is absolutely necessary to confess according to Catholic faith that the entire Christ is in this sacrament. Theol.Imprimatur. On the contrary, The place and the object placed must be equal, as is clear from the Philosopher (Phys. Therefore we must say, in accordance with the Philosopher (De Gener. Further, a link between two things seems to be that thing the removal of which involves the cessation of their union. Hence it is clear that the body of Christ is in this sacrament "by way of substance," and not by way of quantity. It seems that Christ's body is in this sacrament as in a place. Question 76 - OF THE UNION OF BODY AND SOUL (In . Now the intellectual soul, as we have seen above (I:55:2) in the order of nature, holds the lowest place among intellectual substances; inasmuch as it is not naturally gifted with the knowledge of truth, as the angels are; but has to gather knowledge from individual things by way of the senses, as Dionysius says (Div. v). The First Part addresses God, gradually working its way through God's creation and the angels to man. Reply to Objection 3. It seems that the whole Christ is not contained under both species of this sacrament. For this reason among animals, man has the best sense of touch. Objection 2. 2 (Whether angels . If, however, the intellectual soul be united to the body as its substantial form, as we have said above (Article 1), it is impossible for another substantial form besides the intellectual soul to be found in man. For the nature of each thing is shown by its operation. Nor does it matter that sometimes Christ's entire body is not seen there, but part of His flesh, or else that it is not seen in youthful guise, but in the semblance of a child, because it lies within the power of a glorified body for it to be seen by a non-glorified eye either entirely or in part, and under its own semblance or in strange guise, as will be said later (Supplement:85:2-3). Therefore the species of things would be received individually into my intellect, and also into yours: which is contrary to the nature of the intellect which knows universals. Objection 1. On the contrary, Ambrose says (De Officiis): "Christ is in this sacrament.". As stated above, the body of Christ is not under the species of wine by the power of the sacrament, but by real concomitance: and therefore by the consecration of the wine the body of Christ is not there of itself, but concomitantly. But all men are of one species. viii, 5). The first part covers the nature of God, creation, angels, man, and divine government (sovereignty). Because the change of the bread and wine is not terminated at the Godhead or the soul of Christ, it follows as a consequence that the Godhead or the soul of Christ is in this sacrament not by the power of the sacrament, but from real concomitance. And so the Philosopher says (De Anima iii) that the intellect is separate, because it is not the faculty of a corporeal organ. Everything has unity in the same way that it has being; consequently we must judge of the multiplicity of a thing as we judge of its being. Secondly, because a glorified body, which appears at will, disappears when it wills after the apparition; thus it is related (Luke 24:31) that our Lord "vanished out of sight" of the disciples. x (Did. Reply to Objection 1. For if any two things be really united, then wherever the one is really, there must the other also be: since things really united together are only distinguished by an operation of the mind. On the contrary, The Philosopher says (Phys. If, therefore, the whole soul is in each part of the body, it follows that each part of the body is an animal. Therefore, apparently it is impossible for the entire Christ to be under every part of the species. But no dimensive quantity is contained entirely in any whole, and in its every part. On the contrary, According to the Philosopher, Metaph. For every form exists in its proper disposed matter. This can be made clear by three different reasons. It would seem that in man there is another form besides the intellectual soul. 1.2 Treatise on Sacred Doctrine (Question 1) 1.3 Treatise on the One God (Questions 2-26) 1.4 Treatise on the Trinity (Questions 27-43) 1.5 Treatise on the Creation (Questions 44-46) 1.6 Treatise on the Distinction of Things in General (Question 47) 1.7 Treatise on the Distinction of Good and Evil (Questions 48-49) On the contrary, It is said in the book De Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus xv: "Nor do we say that there are two souls in one man, as James and other Syrians write; one, animal, by which the body is animated, and which is mingled with the blood; the other, spiritual, which obeys the reason; but we say that it is one and the same soul in man, that both gives life to the body by being united to it, and orders itself by its own reasoning. The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265-1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) although it was never finished. "The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine." - Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica Summa Theologica is an extensive five-volume masterpiece about the. And since the conversion of the substance of the bread is terminated at the substance of the body of Christ, and since according to the manner of substance the body of Christ is properly and directly in this sacrament; such distance of parts is indeed in Christ's true body, which, however, is not compared to this sacrament according to such distance, but according to the manner of its substance, as stated above (Article 1, Reply to Objection 3). Therefore the whole soul is not in each part. Now whatever is received into anything must be received according to the condition of the receiver. It cannot be then that the entire Christ is under every part of the host or of the wine contained in the chalice. Now the form, through itself, makes a thing to be actual since it is itself essentially an act; nor does it give existence by means of something else. Objection 4. But the soul is the substantial form of man. The reason of this is that a thing is one, according as it is a being. Therefore the whole Christ is not contained under each species. and F. Leo Moore, O.P., S.T.L.Imprimatur. and F. Leo Moore, O.P., S.T.L.Imprimatur. Reply to Objection 2. And therefore it is not necessary for Christ to be in this sacrament as in a place. The Summa Theologica, as its title indicates, is a "theological summary." It seeks to describe the relationship between God and man and to explain how man's reconciliation with the Divine is made possible at all through Christ. 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