Summa Theologica of the Irrefragable Doctor Alexander of Hales of the Order of Friars Minor, Volume 3: Second Part of the Second Book

Doctoris Irrefragabilis Alexandri de Hales Ordinis Minorum Summa Theologica, Tomus III: Secunda Pars Secundi Libri

1930·Latin·934 pages PDF (82MB) Source

The third volume of the Quaracchi critical edition of the Summa Theologica of Alexander of Hales (also known as the Summa Halensis), prepared by the Fathers of the Collegium S. Bonaventurae and published at Quaracchi (Florence) in 1930. This volume contains the second part of the second book (Secunda Pars Secundi Libri), comprising treatises on evil, sin, and the vices — including spoliatio gratuitorum, original sin, the capital vices, and the question of simony. A monumental thirteenth-century Franciscan synthesis assembled from the writings of Alexander and his school.

Author

Alexander of Hales

Alexander Halensis

1185–1245

Readings

Title II: On Simony

Titulus II: De Simonia

The Summa Halensis's treatise on simony (Titulus II: De Simonia), part of the broader treatment of vices opposed to the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The treatise is divided into seven capita: (1) the name of simony; (2) what it is; (3) the modes in which it is contracted; (4) its material differences; (5) the penalty of simony; (6) doubtful cases; and (7) satisfaction and restitution. Composed by Alexander's Franciscan students in the 1240s and contemporary with the early teaching of Bonaventure, this is the foundational early Franciscan synthesis on simony, parallel to and predating Aquinas's Summa Theologiae II-II, Q. 100.

Alexander of Hales·1245·Latin·Inq. III, Tract. VIII, Sect. I, Quaest. III, Tit. II·p. 2.789a–2.810a