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Thomas Aquinas stands among the most important thinkers in the history of Christianity, and his famous Summa Theologica represents the pinnacle of medieval theology and perhaps the most influential theological work in the history of Western Christianity. In the volumes of his writings we find the forerunners of every intellectual development in the eight centuries that followed, and the depth of...

quia gratia perficit naturam secundum modum naturae; sicut et omnis perfectio recipitur in perfectibili secundum modum ejus. Est autem hoc proprium naturae angelicae, quod naturalem perfectionem non per discursum acquirat, sed statim per naturam habeat, sicut supra ostensum est (art. 1. huj. q. et q. 58. art. 3. et 4.). Sicut autem ex sua natura angelus habet ordinem ad perfectionem naturalem; ita ex merito habet ordinem ad gloriam: et ita statim post meritum in angelo fuit beatitudo consecuta. Meritum