Summa Theologiae, Treatise on the Angels

Name: Summa Theologiae, Treatise on the Angels
Author: Thomas Aquinas; tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province

Thomas Aquinas; tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province

Questions 50-64 on angelic nature and the fall, and 106-114 on the orders, guardianship and demonic assault. The systematic Catholic angelology, and unusual for arguing with itself: Aquinas sets Pseudo-Dionysius against Gregory the Great on the ordering of the choirs and shows his working.

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What this text attests · 9

Name here	Rank given	#	Powers described
Angels	—	—	Placed among the nine orders and assigned a degree of illumination, in the question on the angelic hierarchies (I, q. 108).
Archangels	—	—	Placed among the nine orders and assigned a degree of illumination, in the question on the angelic hierarchies (I, q. 108).
Cherubim	—	—	Placed among the nine orders and assigned a degree of illumination, in the question on the angelic hierarchies (I, q. 108).
Dominations = Dominions	—	—	Placed among the nine orders and assigned a degree of illumination, in the question on the angelic hierarchies (I, q. 108).
Powers	—	—	Placed among the nine orders and assigned a degree of illumination, in the question on the angelic hierarchies (I, q. 108).
Principalities	—	—	Placed among the nine orders and assigned a degree of illumination, in the question on the angelic hierarchies (I, q. 108).
Seraphim	—	—	Placed among the nine orders and assigned a degree of illumination, in the question on the angelic hierarchies (I, q. 108).
Thrones	—	—	Placed among the nine orders and assigned a degree of illumination, in the question on the angelic hierarchies (I, q. 108).
Virtues	—	—	Placed among the nine orders and assigned a degree of illumination, in the question on the angelic hierarchies (I, q. 108).

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