| ### QUESTION 39 ### OF SCHISM ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the vices contrary to peace, which belong to deeds: such are schism, strife, sedition, and war. In the first place, then, about schism, there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether schism is a special sin? #### (2) Whether it is graver than unbelief? #### (3) Of the power exercised by schismatics; #### (4) Of the punishment inflicted on them. ####  |