Summa Theologiae by St Thomas Aquinas
SS: Treatise On The Theological Virtues
Q19 Of The Gift Of Fear
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We must now consider the gift of fear, about which there are twelve points of inquiry:

A1 Whether God is to be feared?

A2 Of the division of fear into filial, initial, servile and worldly;

A3 Whether worldly fear is always evil?

A4 Whether servile fear is good?

A5 Whether it is substantially the same as filial fear?

A6 Whether servile fear departs when charity comes?

A7 Whether fear is the beginning of wisdom?

A8 Whether initial fear is substantially the same as filial fear?

A9 Whether fear is a gift of the Holy Ghost?

A10 Whether it grows when charity grows?

A11 Whether it remains in heaven?

A12 Which of the beatitudes and fruits correspond to it?

 
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