- Can a body be active?
- Do certain seminal virtues exist in bodies?
- Are the heavenly bodies the causes of what is done here by the inferior bodies?
- Are they the cause of human acts?
- Are demons subject to their influence?
- Do the heavenly bodies impose necessity on those things which are subject to their influence?
"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.