Book IV: Of God in His revelation
Book IV: Of God in His revelation
- Preface
- Of generation, paternity, and sonship in God
- The opinion of Photinus touching the Son of God, and its rejection
- Rejection of the opinion of Sabellius concerning the Son of God
- Of the opinion of Arius concerning the Son of God
- Rejection of Arius's position
- Explanation of the texts which Arius used to allege for himself
- How the Son of God is called the wisdom of God
- That the Holy Ghost is True God
- That the Holy Ghost is a subsistent person
- Of the effects which the Scriptures attribute to the Holy Ghost in respect of the Whole Creation
- Of the effects attributed to the Holy Ghost in Scripture
- Of the effects attributed to the Holy Ghost in the attraction of the rational creature to God
- Replies to arguments alleged Against the divinity of the Holy Ghost
- That the Holy Ghost Proceeds From the Son
- That there are only Three persons in the Godhead, Father and Son and Holy Ghost
- Of the Incarnation of the word according to the tradition of Holy Scripture
- Of the error of Photinus concerning the Incarnation
- Of the error of the Manicheans concerning the Incarnation
- Of the error of Arius and Apollinaris concerning the Soul of Christ
- Of the error of Theodore of Mopsuestia concerning the Union of the word with man
- Against the error of Eutyches
- Of the error of Macarius of Antioch, who posited one Operation only and one Will only in Christ
- The Doctrine of Catholic Faith Concerning the Incarnation
- Some further elucidation of the Incarnation
- Objections Against the Faith of the Incarnation, with replies
- That the Human Nature, assumed by the Word, Was perfect in Soul and Body
- That Christ was born of a Virgin without prejudice to His true and Natural Humanity
- That Christ was Conceived by the Holy Ghost
- Of the Incarnation as Part of the Fitness of Things
- Points of reply to Difficulties Touching the Economy of the Incarnation
- That Original Sin is Transmitted from our First Parent to His posterity
- Arguments Against Original Sin, with replies
- Of The Need of Sacraments
- Of the Difference Between the Sacraments of the Old and of the New Law
- Of The Number of the Sacraments of the New Law
- Of the Sacrament of Baptism
- Of the Sacrament of Confirmation
- Of the Holy Eucharist
- Of the Conversion of Bread Into the Body of Christ
- An answer to Difficulties raised in Respect of Place
- The Difficulty of the Accidents Remaining
- What Happens when the Sacramental Species Pass Away
- Answer to the Difficulty Raised in Respect of the Breaking of the Host
- The Explanation of A Text
- Of the kind of Bread and Wine that Ought to be used for the Consecration of this Sacrament
- That a Man who Sins after the Grace of the Sacraments May be converted to Grace
- Of the Need of the Sacrament of Penance, and of the Parts thereof
- Of The Sacrament of Extreme Unction
- Of The Sacrament of Order
- Of The Distinction of Orders
- Of the Episcopal Dignity, and that therein One Bishop is Supreme
- That Sacraments can be Administered even by Wicked Ministers
- Of The Sacrament of Matrimony
- That Through Christ the Resurrection of our Bodies Will take place
- Some Points of reply to Difficulties on the Resurrection
- That Men shall Rise Again Immortal
- That in the Resurrection there will be No use of Food or Intercourse of the Sexes
- That Risen Bodies shall be of the Same Nature as Before
- That the Bodies of the Risen shall be Otherwise Organised than before
- Of The Qualities of Glorified Bodies
- Of Sex and Age in The Resurrection
- Of The Quality of Risen Bodies in the Lost
- How Incorporeal Subsistent Spirits Suffer from Corporeal Fire
- That Souls enter upon Punishment or Reward Immediately After their Separation from their Bodies
- That the Souls of the Saints after Death have their Will Immutably Fixed on Good
- That the Souls of the Wicked after Death have their Will Immutably Fixed on Evil
- Of the Immutability of the Will of Souls Detained in Purgatory
- Of the General Cause of Immutability in All Souls After their Separation from the Body
- Of the Last Judgement
- Of the State of the World After the Judgement