CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

CHAPTER

1.  SCOPE OF THE PRESENT WORK

PART ONE

FAITH

2. ARRANGEMENT OF TOPICS CONCERNING FAITH

FIRST TREATISE ON FAITH

THE DIVINE TRINITY

3.  THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

4.  THE IMMOBILITY OF GOD

5.  THE ETERNITY OF GOD

6.  THE NECESSITY OF GOD'S EXISTENCE

7.  THE EVERLASTING EXISTENCE OF GOD

8.  ABSENCE OF SUCCESSION IN GOD

9.  SIMPLICITY OF GOD

10. IDENTITY OF GOD WITH HIS ESSENCE

11. IDENTITY OF ESSENCE AND EXISTENCE IN GOD

12. GOD NOT CONTAINED UNDER ANY GENUS

13. GOD NOT A GENUS

14. GOD NOT A SPECIES PREDICATED OF INDIVIDUALS

15. THE UNICITY OF GOD

16. GOD NOT A BODY

17. GOD NEITHER THE FORM OF A BODY NOR A FORCE IN A BODY

18. THE INFINITY OF GOD ACCORDING TO ESSENCE

19. INFINITE POWER OF GOD

20. ABSENCE OF IMPERFECTION IN GOD'S INFINITY

21. EMINENT EXISTENCE IN GOD OF ALL PERFECTIONS FOUND IN CREATURES

22. UNITY OF ALL PERFECTIONS IN GOD

23. ABSENCE OF ACCIDENTS IN GOD

24. GOD'S SIMPLICITY NOT CONTRADICTED BY THE MULTIPLICITY OF NAMES APPLIED TO HIM

25. THE NAMES OF GOD NOT SYNONYMOUS

26. IMPOSSIBILITY OF DEFINING GOD

27. ANALOGY OF TERMS PREDICATED OF GOD AND OF OTHER BEINGS

28. THE INTELLIGENCE OF GOD

29. GOD'S IN INTELLIGENCE NOT POTENTIAL OR HABITUAL BUT ACTUAL

30. GOD'S ESSENCE THE ONLY SPECIES IN HIS UNDERSTANDING

31. IDENTITY BETWEEN GOD AND HIS INTELLIGENCE

32. THE VOLITION OF GOD

33. IDENTITY OF GOD'S WILL WITH HIS INTELLECT

34. IDENTITY BETWEEN GOD'S WILL AND HIS WILLING

35. THE FOREGOING TRUTHS EMBRACED IN ONE ARTICLE OF FAITH

36. PHILOSOPHICAL CHARACTER OF THIS DOCTRINE

37. THE WORD IN GOD

38. THE WORD AS CONCEPTION

39. RELATION OF THE WORD TO THE FATHER

40. GENERATION IN GOD

41. THE SON EQUAL TO THE FATHER IN EXISTENCE AND ESSENCE

42. THIS TEACHING IN CATHOLIC FAITH

43. THE DIVINE WORD NOT DISTINCT FROM THE FATHER IN TIME, SPECIES, OR NATURE

44. CONCLUSION FROM THE FOREGOING

45. GOD IN HIMSELF AS BELOVED IN LOVER

46. LOVE IN GOD AS SPIRIT

47. HOLINESS OF THE SPIRIT IN GOD

48. LOVE IN GOD NOT ACCIDENTAL

49. PROCESSION OF THE HOLY GHOST FROM THE FATHER AND THE SON

50. THE TRINITY OF DIVINE PERSONS AND THE UNITY OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE

51. A SEEMING CONTRADICTION IN THE TRINITY

52. SOLUTION OF THE DIFFICULTY: DISTINCTION IN GOD ACCORDING TO RELATIONS

53. NATURE OF THE RELATIONS WHEREBY THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY GHOST ARE DISTINGUISHED

54. RELATIONS IN GOD NOT ACCIDENTAL

55. PERSONAL DISTINCTION IN GOD THROUGH THE RELATIONS

56. IMPOSSIBILITY OF MORE THAN THREE PERSONS IN GOD

57. PROPERTIES OF THE FATHER

58. PROPERTIES OF THE SON AND THE HOLY GHOST

59. WHY THESE PROPERTIES ARE CALLED NOTIONS

60. THE NUMBER OF RELATIONS AND THE NUMBER OF PERSONS

61. DEPENDENCE OF THE HYPOSTASES ON THE PERSONAL PROPERTIES

62. EFFECT OF INTELLECTUAL REMOVAL OF PERSONAL PROPERTIES ON THE DIVINE ESSENCE

63. PERSONAL ACTS AND PERSONAL PROPERTIES

64. GENERATION WITH RESPECT TO THE FATHER AND WITH RESPECT TO THE SON

65. NATURE OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN NOTIONAL ACTS AND NOTIONAL PROPERTIES

66. IDENTITY BETWEEN THE RELATIVE PROPERTIES AND THE DIVINE ESSENCE

67. THE DIVINE PROPERTIES NOT EXTERNALLY AFFIXED

68. THE EFFECTS PRODUCED BY GOD

69. CREATION FROM NOTHING

70. CREATION POSSIBLE FOR GOD ALONE

71. MATTER NOT THE CAUSE OF DIVERSITY IN THINGS

72. THE CAUSE OF DIVERSITY

73. DIVERSITY IN THINGS ACCORDING TO DEGREE AND ORDER

74. INCORPOREAL SUBSTANCES REQUISITE FOR THE PERFECTION OF THE UNIVERSE

75. INTELLECTUAL SUBSTANCES

76. FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN INTELLECTUAL SUBSTANCES

77. ORDER AND DEGREE AMONG INTELLECTUAL BEINGS

78. ORDER AND DEGREE IN INTELLECTUAL OPERATION

79. INFERIORITY OF MAN'S INTELLECTUAL NATURE

80. DIFFERENT KINDS OF INTELLECT AND WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING

81. RECEPTION OF INTELLIGIBLE FORMS IN THE POSSIBLE INTELLECT

82. MAN'S NEED OF SENSE FACULTIES FOR UNDERSTANDING

83. NECESSITY OF THE AGENT INTELLECT

84. INCORRUPTIBILITY OF THE HUMAN SOUL

85. UNITY OF THE POSSIBLE INTELLECT

86. THE AGENT INTELLECT NOT ONE IN ALL MEN

87. THE POSSIBLE INTELLECT AND THE AGENT INTELLECT AS RESIDING IN THE ESSENCE OF THE SOUL

88. THE WAY THESE TWO FACULTIES ARE UNITED IN THE SAME ESSENCE OF THE SOUL

89. RADICATION OF ALL THE FACULTIES IN THE ESSENCE OF THE SOUL

90. UNICITY OF THE SOUL

91. ARGUMENTS ADVANCED TO SHOW A MULTIPLICITY OF SOULS IN MAN

92. REFUTATION OF THE PRECEDING OBJECTIONS

93. PRODUCTION OF THE RATIONAL SOUL

94. THE RATIONAL SOUL NOT DERIVED FROM GOD'S SUBSTANCE

95. IMMEDIATE CREATION BY GOD

96. VOLUNTARINESS OF GOD'S ACTIVITY

97. IMMUTABILITY OF GOD IN HIS ACTIVITY

98. QUESTION OF THE ETERNITY OF MOTION

99. CONTROVERSY ON THE ETERNITY OF MATTER

100. FINALITY OF GOD'S CREATIVE ACTIVITY

101. THE DIVINE GOODNESS AS THE ULTIMATE END

102. THE REASON FOR DIVERSITY IN THINGS

103. THE DIVINE GOODNESS AS THE END OF ALL ACTION AND MOVEMENT IN CREATURES

104. THE END OF THE INTELLECTUAL CREATURE

105. KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE BY THE CREATED INTELLECT

106. FRUITION OF NATURAL DESIRE IN THE BEATIFIC VISION

107. BEATITUDE ESSENTIALLY IN THE ACT OF THE INTELLECT

108. THE ERROR OF PLACING HAPPINESS IN CREATURES

109. THE ESSENTIAL GOODNESS OF GOD AND THE PARTICIPATED GOODNESS OF CREATURES

110. GOD'S GOODNESS INCAPABLE OF BEING LOST

111. INSECURITY OF THE CREATURE'S GOODNESS

112. DEFECTIBILITY OF THE CREATURE'S GOODNESS IN ACTIVITY

113. THE TWOFOLD PRINCIPLE OF ACTIVITY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF DEFECT THEREIN

114. THE MEANING OF GOOD AND EVIL IN THINGS

115. IMPOSSIBILITY OF AN EVIL NATURE

116. GOOD AND EVIL AS SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES AND AS CONTRARIES

117. IMPOSSIBILITY OF ESSENTIAL OR SUPREME EVIL

118. FOUNDATION OF EVIL IN GOOD AS ITS SUBSTRATUM

119. TWO KINDS OF EVIL

120. THREE KINDS OF ACTION, AND THE EVIL OF SIN

121. THE EVIL OF PUNISHMENT

122. PUNISHMENT VARIOUSLY OPPOSED TO THE WILL

123. THE UNIVERSALITY OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE

124. GOD'S PLAN OF RULING LOWER CREATURES BY HIGHER CREATURES

125. THE GOVERNMENT OF LOWER INTELLECTUAL SUBSTANCES BY HIGHER INTELLECTUAL SUBSTANCES

126. RANK AND ORDER OF THE ANGELS

127. CONTROL OF LOWER BODIES, BUT NOT OF THE HUMAN INTELLECT, BY HIGHER BODIES

128. INDIRECT INFLUENCE OF HEAVENLY BODIES ON THE HUMAN INTELLECT THROUGH THE SENSES

129. MOVEMENT OF MAN'S WILL BY GOD

130. GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD BY GOD

131. IMMEDIATE DISPOSING OF ALL THINGS BY GOD

132. OBJECTIONS TO GOD'S PARTICULAR PROVIDENCE

133. SOLUTION OF THE FOREGOING OBJECTIONS

134. GOD'S DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF CONTINGENT FUTURES

135. GOD'S EXISTENCE IN ALL THINGS BY POWER, ESSENCE, AND PRESENCE

136. THE WORKING OF MIRACLES PROPER TO GOD ALONE

137. FORTUITOUS EVENTS

138. FATE AND ITS NATURE

139. CONTINGENCY OF SOME EFFECTS

140. DIVINE PROVIDENCE COMPATIBLE WITH CONTINGENCY

141. PROVIDENCE AND EVIL

142. GOD'S GOODNESS AND THE PERMISSION OF EVIL

143. GOD'S SPECIAL PROVIDENCE OVER MAN BY GRACE

144. REMISSION OF SIN BY THE GIFTS OF GRACE

145. NO SIN UNFORGIVABLE

146. REMISSION OF SIN BY GOD ALONE

147. SOME ARTICLES OF FAITH ON THE EFFECTS OF DIVINE GOVERNMENT

148. ALL CREATION FOR MAN

149. THE ULTIMATE END OF MAN

150. CONSUMMATION OF MAN IN ETERNITY

151. REUNION WITH THE BODY REQUISITE FOR THE SOUL'S PERFECT HAPPINESS

152. SEPARATION OF THE BODY FROM THE SOUL BOTH NATURAL AND CONTRARY TO NATURE

153. THE SOUL'S RESUMPTION OF THE SAME BODY

154. MIRACULOUS NATURE OF THE RESURRECTION

155. RESURRECTION TO NEW LIFE

156. CESSATION OF NUTRITION AND REPRODUCTION AFTER THE RESURRECTION

157. RESURRECTION OF ALL THE BODILY MEMBERS

158. ABSENCE OF DEFECTS IN THE RESURRECTION

159. RESURRECTION RESTRICTED TO WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR TRUE HUMAN NATURE

160. GOD'S ACTION IN SUPPLYING WHAT IS LACKING IN THE BODY

161. SOLUTION OF POSSIBLE OBJECTIONS

162. THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD AS AN ARTICLE OF FAITH

163. NATURE OF RISEN MAN'S ACTIVITY

164. THE VISION OF GOD IN HIS ESSENCE

165. SUPREME PERFECTION AND HAPPINESS IN THE VISION OF GOD

166. CONFIRMATION IN GOOD IN THE BEATIFIC VISION

167. COMPLETE SUBJECTION OF THE BODY TO THE SOUL

168. QUALITIES OF THE GLORIFIED BODY

169. RENOVATION OF MAN AND OF MATERIAL NATURE

170. RENOVATION RESTRICTED TO CERTAIN CLASSES OF CREATURES

171. CESSATION OF MOTION IN THE HEAVENLY BODIES

172. MAN'S REWARD OR MISERY ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS

173. REWARD AND MISERY POSTPONED TO THE NEXT WORLD

174. WRETCHEDNESS FLOWING FROM THE PUNISHMENT OF LOSS

175. FORGIVENESS OF SIN IN THE NEXT WORLD

176. PROPERTIES OF THE BODIES OF THE DAMNED

177. SUFFERING COMPATIBLE WITH INCORRUPTIBILITY IN THE BODIES OF THE DAMNED

178. PUNISHMENT OF THE DAMNED PRIOR TO THE RESURRECTION

179. SPIRITUAL AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT OF THE DAMNED

180. THE SOUL AND CORPOREAL FIRE

181. PUNISHMENTS OF PURGATORY FOR UNEXPIATED MORTAL SINS

182. PUNISHMENT IN PURGATORY FOR VENIAL SINS

183. ETERNAL PUNISHMENT FOR MOMENTARY SIN NOT INCOMPATIBLE WITH DIVINE JUSTICE

184. THE ETERNAL LOT OF OTHER SPIRITUAL SUBSTANCES COMPARABLE WITH THAT OF SOULS

SECOND TREATISE ON FAITH

THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST

185. FAITH IN THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST

186. THE COMMANDS LAID ON THE FIRST MAN, AND HIS PERFECTION IN THE PRISTINE STATE

187. THE STATE OF ORIGINAL JUSTICE

188. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL

189. SEDUCTION OF EVE BY THE DEVIL

190. THE WOMAN'S SIN

191. THE MAN'S SIN

192. EFFECT OF THE SIN AS REGARDS THE REBELLION OF THE LOWER FACULTIES AGAINST REASON

193. THE PUNISHMENT AS REGARDS THE NECESSITY OF DYING

194. EVILS AFFECTING INTELLECT AND WILL

195. TRANSMISSION OF THESE EVILS TO POSTERITY

196. PRIVATION OF ORIGINAL JUSTICE AS SIN IN ADAM'S DESCENDANTS

197. NOT ALL SINS TRANSMITTED TO POSTERITY

198. INSUFFICIENCY OF ADAM'S MERIT TO RESTORE NATURE

199. THE REPARATION OF HUMAN NATURE BY CHRIST

200. RESTORATION OF MAN BY GOD THROUGH THE INCARNATION

201. OTHER REASONS FOR THE INCARNATION

202. THE ERROR OF PHOTINUS CONCERNING THE INCARNATION

203. THE ERROR OF NESTORIUS ABOUT THE INCARNATION

204. THE ERROR OF ARIUS ABOUT THE INCARNATION

205. THE ERROR OF APOLLINARIS IN REGARD TO THE INCARNATION

206. THE ERROR OF EUTYCHES REGARDING UNION IN NATURE

207. REFUTATION OF THE MANICHAEAN ERROR CONCERNING THE NATURE OF CHRIST'S BODY

208. THE REALITY OF CHRIST'S EARTHLY BODY, AGAINST VALENTINUS

209. THE TEACHING OF FAITH ABOUT THE INCARNATION

210. EXCLUSION OF TWO SUPPOSITA IN CHRIST

211. ONE SUPPOSITUM AND ONE PERSON IN CHRIST

212. UNITY AND MULTIPLICITY IN CHRIST

213. PERFECTION OF GRACE AND WISDOM IN CHRIST

214. THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST'S GRACE

215. INFINITUDE OF CHRIST'S GRACE

216. FULLNESS OF CHRIST'S WISDOM

217. THE MATTER OF CHRIST'S BODY

218. FORMATION OF CHRIST'S BODY

219. THE CAUSE OF THE FORMATION OF CHRIST'S BODY

220. EXPLANATION OF THE ARTICLE IN THE CREED ON THE CONCEPTION AND BIRTH OF CHRIST

221. CHRIST'S BIRTH FROM A VIRGIN

222. THE MOTHER OF CHRIST

223. THE HOLY SPIRIT NOT THE FATHER OF CHRIST

224. SANCTIFICATION OF CHRIST'S MOTHER

225. PERPETUAL VIRGINITY OF CHRIST'S MOTHER

226. DEFECTS ASSUMED BY CHRIST

227. WHY CHRIST WILLED TO DIE

228. THE DEATH OF THE CROSS

229. THE DEATH OF CHRIST

230. VOLUNTARY CHARACTER OF CHRIST'S DEATH

231. THE PASSION OF CHRIST AS REGARDS HIS BODY

232. THE PASSIBILITY OF CHRIST'S SOUL

233. THE PRAYER OF CHRIST

234. THE BURIAL OF CHRIST

235. DESCENT OF CHRIST INTO HELL

236. THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

237. QUALITIES OF THE RISEN CHRIST

238. ARGUMENTS DEMONSTRATING CHRIST'S RESURRECTION

239. THE TWOFOLD LIFE RESTORED IN MAN BY CHRIST

240. THE TWOFOLD REWARD OF CHRIST'S HUMILIATION

241. CHRIST AS JUDGE

242. ALL JUDGMENT GIVEN TO THE SON

243. UNIVERSALITY OF THE JUDGMENT

244. PROCEDURE AND PLACE OF THE JUDGMENT

245. ROLE OF THE SAINTS IN THE JUDGMENT

246. THE FOREGOING TEACHINGS COMPRISED IN ARTICLES OF FAITH

PART TWO

HOPE

1. NECESSITY OF THE VIRTUE OF HOPE

2. PRAYER AND HOPE

3. THE LORD'S PRAYER

4. WHY WE MUST PRAY TO GOD FOR WHAT WE HOPE

5. WHY WE ARE TO SAY "OUR FATHER," NOT "MY FATHER"

6. GOD'S POWER TO GRANT OUR PETITIONS

7. OBJECTS OF HOPE

8. FIRST PETITION: DESIRE FOR PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

9. SECOND PETITION: PRAYER FOR PARTICIPATION IN GOD'S GLORY

10. POSSIBILITY OF REACHING THE KINGDOM

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