We must now consider the virtue itself of faith, and, in the first place, faith itself; secondly, those who have faith; thirdly, the cause of faith; fourthly, its effects.

Under the first head there are eight points of inquiry:

A1 What is faith?

A2 In what power of the soul does it reside?

A3 Whether its form is charity?

A4 Whether living [formata] faith and lifeless [informis] faith are one identically?

A5 Whether faith is a virtue?

A6 Whether it is one virtue?

A7 Of its relation to the other virtues;

A8 Of its certitude as compared with the certitude of the intellectual virtues.