| ### QUESTION 184 OF THE STATE OF PERFECTION IN GENERAL |

| ### Index |

| #### Prologue #### ARTICLE 1. Whether the perfection of the Christian life consists chiefly in charity? #### ARTICLE 2. Whether any one can be perfect in this life? #### ARTICLE 3. Whether, in this life, perfection consists in the observance of the commandments or of the counsels? #### ARTICLE 4. Whether whoever is perfect is in the state of perfection? #### ARTICLE 5. Whether religious and prelates are in the state of perfection? #### ARTICLE 6. Whether all ecclesiastical prelates are in the state of perfection? #### ARTICLE 7. Whether the religious state is more perfect than that of prelates? #### ARTICLE 8. Whether parish priests and archdeacons are more perfect than religious? |