116 Reasons to Read the Prima Pars (First Part) of The Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas

In the Prima Pars (First Part) of The Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas asks and answers, by my guess, about 1,000 questions on The One God, The Blessed Trinity, Creation, The Angels (Spirit), The Six Days (Matter), Man (Spirit and Matter), and The Government of Creatures. The mere formulation of these questions was an act of great genius. --and he answers them all too! Below are 116 of those questions. Gentle reader, you will need to turn the Summa yourself to read the answers.

The One God

Is the proposition "God exists" self-evident?
Does God exist?
Are goodness and being the same really? Are all things good by the divine goodness?
Is goodness divided into the virtuous, the useful, and the pleasant?
Can creatures be said to be like God?
Can anything be infinite in magnitude?
Can an infinite multitude exist?
Is God everywhere by essence, power, and presence?
Does "one" add anything to "being"?
Does eternity differ from time?
Can any created intellect see the essence of God?
Is this name, "Who is," the supremely appropriate name of God?
Is the knowledge of God the cause of things?
Are there ideas?
Whether the true and being are convertible terms?
Whether falsity exists in things?
What is life?
Are five expressions of will rightly assigned to the divine will?
Does He love one thing more than another?
Is there mercy in God?
Is divine providence immediately concerned with all things?
Can predestination be furthered by the prayers of the saints?
Can anyone be blotted out of the book of life?
Could He make the past not to have been?
In regard to what is God called blessed does this regard His act of intellect?

The Blessed Trinity

Are there more than two processions in God?
Are those relations the divine essence itself, or extrinsic to it?
Whether "person" is the same as hypostasis, subsistence, and essence?
Whether this term "person" can be common to the three persons?
Can the divine persons be known by natural reason?
Is the person of the Father properly signified by this name "Father"?
Is relation to creatures expressed in the name of the Word?
Is Image in God said personally?
Are the Father and the Son one principle of the Holy Ghost?
Whether "Love" is the proper name of the Holy Ghost?
Whether "Gift" is the proper name of the Holy Ghost?
Is the essence in God the same as the person?
Is relation the same as person?
Are the notional acts to be attributed to the persons?
Is the person who proceeds equal to the one from Whom He proceeds in eternity?
Is it suitable for a divine person to be sent?

Creation

Is God the exemplar cause of beings or are there other exemplar causes?
Is any trace of the Trinity to be found in created things?
How is God said to have created heaven and earth in the beginning?
Whether the inequality of things is from God?
Which has more the nature of evil: pain, or fault?
Is there any supreme evil, which is the first cause of all evils?

The Angels (Spirit)

Whether an angel is composed of matter and form?
Do angels have bodies naturally united to them?
Can several angels be in the same place?
Is the angel's movement in time or instantaneous?
Is there in the angels an active and a passive intellect?
Do the angels know everything by their substance, or by some species?
Does one angel know another?
Whether angels know secret thoughts?
Is the angel's intellect sometimes in potentiality, and sometimes in act?
Is the will of the angel his nature, or his intellect?
Whether there is love of choice in the angels?
Whether an angel needs grace in order to turn to God?
Whether the devil desired to be as God?
Whether there is sorrow in the demons?

The Six Days (Matter)

Whether corporeal creatures were produced by God through the medium of the angels?
Whether the formless matter of all corporeal things is the same?
Whether light is a quality?
Whether there is only one heaven?
Whether it was fitting that the production of plants should take place on the third day?
Whether the lights of heaven are living beings?
Whether God rested on the seventh day from all His work?
Whether Scripture uses suitable words to express the work of the six days?

Man (Spirit and Matter)

Whether the human soul is something subsistent?
In the body, the form of which is an intellectual principle, is there some other soul?
Do all the powers of the soul remain in the soul after death?
Whether there are to be distinguished five genera of powers in the soul?
Is the intellect a power of the soul, or its essence?
Should the appetite be considered a special power of the soul?
Whether the sensitive appetite is divided into the irascible and concupiscible as distinct powers?
Whether the will moves the intellect?
Whether man has free-will?
Whether the judgment of the intellect is hindered through suspension of the sensitive powers?
Whether the intellect understands the indivisible before the divisible?
Whether our intellect can know the future?
Whether our intellect knows its own act?
Whether our intellect can understand immaterial substances through its knowledge of material things?
Whether God is the first object known by the human mind?
Whether the separated soul knows singulars?
Whether the soul was made or was of God's substance?
Whether the body of the first man was made of the slime of the earth?
Whether the woman was fittingly made from the rib of man?
Whether "likeness" is properly distinguished from "image"?
Whether the first man saw God through His Essence?
Whether passions existed in the soul of the first man?
Whether men were equal in the state of innocence?
Whether in the state of innocence man would have acquired immortality by the tree of life?
Whether in the state of innocence there would have been generation by coition?
Whether in the state of innocence children would have had perfect strength of body as to the use of its members immediately after birth?
Whether in the state of innocence children would have been born confirmed in righteousness?
Would they have had perfect use of reason at the moment of birth?
Whether paradise is a corporeal place?

The Government of Creatures

Whether anything can happen outside the order of the Divine government?
Whether creatures need to be kept in being by God?
Whether anything is annihilated?
Whether whatever God does outside the natural order is miraculous?
Whether one angel enlightens another?
Whether all the angels know what one speaks to another?
Whether men are taken up into the angelic orders?
Whether there is enlightenment in the demons?
Whether angels can work miracles?
Whether an angel can change man's imagination?
Whether all the angels are sent in ministry?
Whether there can be strife or discord among the angels?
Whether demons can lead men astray by means of real miracles?
Whether a body can be active?
Whether all things are subject to fate?
Whether man by the power of his soul can change corporeal matter?
Whether the intellectual soul is produced from the semen?
Whether some part of the food is changed into true human nature?