- Were the angels created in beatitude?
- Did they need grace in order to turn to God?
- Were they created in grace?
- Did they merit their beatitude?
- Did they at once enter into beatitude after merit?
- Did they receive grace and glory according to their natural capacities?
- After entering glory, did their natural love and knowledge remain?
- Could they have sinned afterwards?
- After entering into glory, could they advance farther?
"It is because the contemporary alternatives seem so one-sided and are not more evidently solutions to the problems which Thomas faced, and partly solved, that we return to him and to the tradition of theology and philosophy in which his Summa Theologiae appears: theology as the science of the first principle and this as the total knowledge of reality in its unity." -- Wayne J. Hankey, God in Himself (Oxford University Press, 1987), p.159.