- Can there be evil of fault in the angels?
- What kind of sins can be in them?
- What did the angel seek in sinning?
- Supposing that some became evil by a sin of their own choosing, are any of them naturally evil?
- Supposing that it is not so, could any one of them become evil in the first instant of his creation by an act of his own will?
- Supposing that he did not, was there any interval between his creation and fall?
- Was the highest of them who fell, absolutely the highest among the angels?
- Was the sin of the foremost angel the cause of the others sinning?
- Did as many sin as remained steadfast?
"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.