Magisterium, First Vatican Council

1. If anyone says that in divine revelation there are contained no true mysteries properly so-called, but that all the dogmas of the faith can be unde

SESSION 4 : 18 July 1870

First dogmatic constitution on the church of Christ

Chapter 1 On the institution of the apostolic primacy in blessed Peter

Chapter 2. On the permanence of the primacy of blessed Peter in the Roman pontiffs

Chapter 3. On the power and character of the primacy of the Roman pontiff

Chapter 4. On the infallible teaching authority of the Roman pontiff

1. On God the creator of all things

1. If anyone denies the one true God, creator and lord of things visible and invisible: let him be anathema . 2. If anyone is so bold as to assert that there exists nothing besides matter: let him be anathema . 3. If anyone says that the substance or essence of God and that of all things are one and the same: let him be anathema . 4. If anyone says that finite things, both corporal and spiritual, or at any rate, spiritual, emanated from the divine substance; or that the divine essence, by the manifestation and evolution of itself becomes all things or, finally, that God is a universal or indefinite being which by self determination establishes the totality of things distinct in genera, species and individuals: let him be anathema . 5. If anyone does not confess that the world and all things which are contained in it, both spiritual and material, were produced, according to their whole substance, out of nothing by God; or holds that God did not create by his will free from all necessity, but as necessarily as he necessarily loves himself; or denies that the world was created for the glory of God: let him be anathema .