Zagadnienie pośmiertnej identyczności ciała Chrystusa i pośmiertnego nazywania części Jego ciała w "Quaestiones quodlibetales" św. Tomasza z Akwinu

The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the content of two parts of two different quaestiones quodlibetales of Thomas Aquinas. What they have in common is that they both treat the status of Christ (and in particular: of his body) after his death. Although they concern explicitely only the status of Christ, they can also be referred to the status of every human being post mortem. This article shows how Aquinas applies theses derived from his general metaphysical system to defend few statements that he considers necessary to adopt if one wishes to remain within the borders of christian orthodoxy. These statements are: that the death of Christ was a real one; that his divinity was not separated from him during his death; from this second statement a third one is derived: if this is the case, then the body of Christ during his death was the same one as his body before his death. By the way of some extrapolation, we can see what importance these theses and the way of justifying them bear on the more general question of a posthmous condition of human beings, especially their bodies.