| ### QUESTION 188 ### OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF RELIGIOUS LIFE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the different kinds of religious life, and under this head there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether there are different kinds of religious life or only one? #### (2) Whether a religious order can be established for the works of the active life? #### (3) Whether a religious order can be directed to soldiering? #### (4) Whether a religious order can be established for preaching and the exercise of like works? #### (5) Whether a religious order can be established for the study of science? #### (6) Whether a religious order that is directed to the contemplative life is more excellent than one that is directed to the active life? #### (7) Whether religious perfection is diminished by possessing something in common? #### (8) Whether the religious life of solitaries is to be preferred to the religious life of those who live in community? ####  |