^{page 134 note 1} For an extended discussion of this question, see Chapter 6 of my Problems of Religious Knowledge (Macmillan, London, 1971).Google Scholar

^{page 134 note 2} Summa Theologiae Ia2ae.55,4. In the case of long quotations I have used the new Blackfriars, edition of the Summa, published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London.Google Scholar

^{page 135 note 1} S.T. Ia2ae.63, I; see also 51, 4.

^{page 135 note 2} See De Veritate 14,10, reply to second difficulty; also S.T. 2a2ae.5,1.

^{page 135 note 3} S.T. 1a2ae.63,2.

^{page 135 note 4} De Veritate 14,10, reply to tenth difficulty.

^{page 135 note 5} S.T. Ia2ae.64,3.

^{page 135 note 6} Ia2ae.64,3.

^{page 135 note 7} Ia2ae.62,2.

^{page 135 note 8} Ia2ae.62,1.

^{page 136 note 1} On the unsuitability of ‘habit’ as a translation of habitus, see Anthony Kenny's introduction to his translation of Ia2ae. 49–54 in Vol. 22 of the Blackfriars, edition of the Summa, 1964.Google Scholar

^{page 136 note 2} 1a2ae.52,1.

^{page 136 note 3} la2ae.66,1 ad 3.

^{page 136 note 4} Ia2ae.65,1.

^{page 136 note 5} Ia2ae.65,4.

^{page 136 note 6} Ia2ae.65,5.

^{page 136 note 7} Ia2ae.65,5.

^{page 136 note 8} De Veritate 14,6.

^{page 137 note 1} S.T. 2a2ae.2.

^{page 137 note 2} 2a2ae.3.

^{page 137 note 3} 2a2ae.3,1 ad 3.

^{page 137 note 4} 2a2ae.3,1.

^{page 137 note 5} See the discussion of cognitive dispositions in 1a2ae.50,4 and 53,1 and 2. See also Appendix 10 to Kenny's Vol. 22 of the Blackfriars Summa.

^{page 138 note 1} Dr Kenny's comments on the conference version of this essay have made it clear to me that credere is used by Aquinas as a success-term – so that, in contrast to opinio, it can only have truth as its object. This restriction, required by his theological understanding of faith as excluding the acceptance of falsehoods, is obviously not a feature of the English ‘belief’, which is an additional reason for treating it with caution as a translation, though of course in this last respect ‘assent’ does not carry this restriction either.

^{page 138 note 2} Trans. Gilby, Blackfriars Vol. 17, page 197.

^{page 139 note 1} De Ver. 14, 1.

^{page 139 note 2} S.T. 2a2ae.2, 1.

^{page 139 note 3} 2a2ae.2,1.

^{page 141 note 1} He uses this argument in Article 12 of the De Veritate discussion to establish the indivisibility of the articles of faith themselves. I am indebted here to a valuable essay by Tad, W.. Guzie, S.J., ‘The Act of Faith According to St. Thomas: a Study in Theological Methodology’, The Thomist, XXIX (1965), 239–80.Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 1} S.T. 1a2ae.65,5.

^{page 142 note 2} De Ver.14,7.

^{page 142 note 3} 14,6. Translation by McGlynn, James V. in vol. II of Truth (Chicago, 1953), p. 237.Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 4} S.T. 2a2ae. 6,2 ad 1.

^{page 143 note 1} I am indebted here to Hick's, John treatment of this theme in chapter 1 of Faith and Knowledge, 2nd edition (Cornell, Ithaca, N.Y., 1966).Google Scholar

^{page 143 note 2} See, for example, Summa Contra Gentiles Book One, chapters 1–8; S.T. 1a.1,1; 2a2ae.2,4.

^{page 144 note 1} See 2a2ae.1,1 ad 1.

^{page 144 note 2} S.C.G. 1, 5–6; S.T. 1a2ae.1, 1 ad 3.

^{page 144 note 3} Chapter III of the Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith, trans. Cardinal Manning.

^{page 145 note 1} 2a2ae.5,2; Blackfriars translation by T. C. O'Brien.

^{page 147 note 1} 2a2ae.4,8.

^{page 148 note 1} 2a2ae.4,7.

^{page 148 note 2} De Ver. 14,1.

^{page 148 note 3} McGlynn translation, page 212.

^{page 150 note 1} S.T. 2a2ae.4,8 ad I.

^{page 150 note 2} 2a2ae.I,3.

^{page 150 note 3} De Ver. 14,12.

^{page 150 note 4} S.T. 2a2ae.5,3.

^{page 151 note 1} One cannot strive to perfect the degree of one's possession of a virtue if one cannot, by definition, possess it less than perfectly.

^{page 151 note 2} See, for example, Maclntyre, Alasdair, ‘The Logical Status of Religious Belief’’ in Metaphysical Beliefs (SCM Press, London, 1957), esp. pp. 195–205.Google Scholar

^{page 153 note 1} I have attempted to outline such an analysis in Problems of Religious Knowledge, esp. chapter 6.

^{page 153 note 2} It is this understanding of faith that is developed in Mitchell's, BasilThe Justification of Religious Belief (Macmillan, London, 1973).CrossRefGoogle Scholar