| ### St. Thomas Aquinas ### THE SUMMA THEOLOGICA ### FIRST PART ### QUESTION 1 ### THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF SACRED DOCTRINE ###  |

| #### PROLOGUE |

| #### #### To place our purpose within proper limits, we first endeavor to investigate the nature and extent of this sacred doctrine. Concerning this there are ten points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether it is necessary? #### (2) Whether it is a science? #### (3) Whether it is one or many? #### (4) Whether it is speculative or practical? #### (5) How it is compared with other sciences? #### (6) Whether it is the same as wisdom? #### (7) Whether God is its subject-matter? #### (8) Whether it is a matter of argument? #### (9) Whether it rightly employs metaphors and similes? #### (10) Whether the Sacred Scripture of this doctrine may be expounded in different senses? ####  |