Contents
- Preface
- Book I.
- Introduction
- Chapter I. The Heresy Compared to the Hydra of the Poets
- Chapter II. Description of the Different Heretical Monsters Which Spring From…
- Chapter III. He Describes the Pestilent Error of the Pelagian
- Chapter IV. Leporius Together With Some Others Recants His Pelagianism
- Chapter V. By the Case of Leporius He Establishes the Fact That an Open Sin…
- Chapter VI. The United Doctrine of the Catholics is to Be Received as the…
- Book II.
- Chapter I. How the Errors of Later Heretics Have Been Condemned and Refuted in…
- Chapter II. Proof That the Virgin Mother of God Was Not Only Christotocos but…
- Chapter III. Follows up the Same Argument With Passages From the Old Testament
- Chapter IV. He Produces Testimonies to the Same Doctrine From the Apostle Paul
- Chapter V. From the Gifts of Divine Grace Which We Receive Through Christ He…
- Chapter VI. That the Power of Bestowing Divine Grace Did Not Come to Christ in…
- Chapter VII. How in Christ the Divinity, Majesty, Might and Power Have Existed…
- Book III.
- Chapter I. That Christ, Who is God and Man in the Unity of Person, Sprang From…
- Chapter II. The Title of God is Given in One Sense to Christ, and in Another to…
- Chapter III. He Explains the Apostle's Saying: “If From Henceforth We Know No…
- Chapter IV. From the Epistle to the Galatians He Brings Forward a Passage to…
- Chapter V. As it is Blasphemy to Pare Away the Divinity of Christ, So Also is…
- Chapter VI. He Shows From the Appearance of Christ Vouchsafed to the Apostle…
- Chapter VII. He Shows Once More by Other Passages of the Apostle That Christ is…
- Chapter VIII. When Confessing the Divinity of Christ We Ought Not to Pass Over…
- Chapter IX. How the Apostle's Preaching Was Rejected by Jews and Gentiles…
- Chapter X. How the Apostle Maintains That Christ is the Power of God and the…
- Chapter XI. He Supports the Same Doctrine by Proofs From the Gospel
- Chapter XII. He Proves From the Renowned Confession of the Blessed Peter That…
- Chapter XIII. The Confession of the Blessed Peter Receives a Testimony to its…
- Chapter XIV. How the Confession of the Blessed Peter is the Faith of the Whole…
- Chapter XV. St. Thomas Also Confessed the Same Faith as Peter After the Lord's…
- Chapter XVI. He Brings Forward the Witness of God the Father to the Divinity of…
- Book IV.
- Chapter I. That Christ Was Before the Incarnation God From Everlasting
- Chapter II. He Infers From What He Has Said That the Virgin Mary Gave Birth to…
- Chapter III. He Proves From the Epistle to the Romans the Eternal Divinity of…
- Chapter IV. He Brings Forward Other Testimonies to the Same View
- Chapter V. How in Virtue of the Hypostatic Union of the Two Natures in Christ…
- Chapter VI. That There is in Christ but One Hypostasis (I.e., Personal Self)
- Chapter VII. He Returns to the Former Subject, in Order to Show Against the…
- Chapter VIII. How This Interchange of Titles Does Not Interfere With His Divine…
- Chapter IX. He Corroborates This Statement by the Authority of the Old Prophets
- Chapter X. He Proves Christ's Divinity From the Blasphemy of Judaizing Jews as…
- Chapter XI. He Returns to the Prophecy of Isaiah
- Chapter XII. How the Title of Saviour is Given to Christ in One Sense, and to…
- Chapter XIII. He Explains Who Are Those in Whose Person the Prophet Isaiah…
- Book V.
- Chapter I. He Vehemently Inveighs Against the Error of the Pelagians, Who…
- Chapter II. That the Doctrine of Nestorius is Closely Connected With the Error…
- Chapter III. How This Participation in Divinity Which the Pelagians and…
- Chapter IV. What the Difference is Between Christ and the Saints
- Chapter V. That Before His Birth in Time Christ Was Always Called God by the…
- Chapter VI. He Illustrates the Same Doctrine by Passages From the New Testament
- Chapter VII. He Shows Again From the Union in Christ of Two Natures in One…
- Chapter VIII. He Confirms the Judgment of the Apostle by the Authority of the…
- Chapter IX. Since Those Marvellous Works Which From the Days of Moses Were…
- Chapter X. He Explains What it Means to Confess, and What it Means to Dissolve…
- Chapter XI. The Mystery of the Lord's Incarnation Clearly Implies the Divinity…
- Chapter XII. He Explains More Fully What the Mystery is Which is Signified…
- Chapter XIII. Of the Longing With Which the Old Patriarchs Desired to See the…
- Chapter XIV. He Refutes the Wicked and Blasphemous Notion of the Heretics Who…
- Chapter XV. What the Prayers of the Saints for the Coming of Messiah Contained…
- Book VI.
- Chapter I. From the Miracle of the Feeding of the Multitude From Five Barley…
- Chapter II. The Author Adapts the Mystery of the Number Seven (Made up of the…
- Chapter III. He Refutes His Opponent by the Testimony of the Council of Antioch
- Chapter IV. How the Creed Has Authority Divine as Well as Human
- Chapter V. He Proceeds Against His Opponent With the Choicest Arguments, and…
- Chapter VI. Once More He Challenges Him to the Profession of the Creed of…
- Chapter VII. He Continues the Same Line of Argument Drawn From the Creed of…
- Chapter VIII. How it Can Be Said That Christ Came and Was Born of a Virgin
- Chapter IX. Again He Convicts His Opponent of Deadly Heresy by His Own…
- Chapter X. He Inveighs Against Him Because Though He Has Forsaken the Catholic…
- Chapter XI. He Removes the Silent Objection of Heretics Who Want to Recant the…
- Chapter XII. Christ Crucified is an Offence and Foolishness to Those Who…
- Chapter XIII. He Replies to the Objection in Which They Say That the Child Born…
- Chapter XIV. He Compares This Erroneous View With the Teaching of the Pelagians
- Chapter XV. He Shows That Those Who Patronize This False Teaching Acknowledge…
- Chapter XVI. He Shows Further That This Teaching is Destructive of the…
- Chapter XVII. Those Who Are Under an Error in One Point of the Catholic…
- Chapter XVIII. He Directs His Discourse Upon His Antagonist With Whom He is…
- Chapter XIX. That the Birth of Christ in Time Diminished Nothing of the Glory…
- Chapter XX. He Shows From What Has Been Said That We Do Not Mean That God Was…
- Chapter XXI. The Authority of Holy Scripture Teaches That Christ Existed From…
- Chapter XXII. The Hypostatic Union Enables Us to Ascribe to God What Belongs to…
- Chapter XXIII. That the Figure Synecdoche, in Which the Part Stands for the…
- Book VII.
- Chapter I. As He is Going to Reply to the Slanders of His Opponents He Implores…
- Chapter II. He Meets the Objection Taken From These Words: No One Gave Birth to…
- Chapter III. He Replies to the Cavil That the One Who is Born Must Be of One…
- Chapter IV. How God Has Shown His Omnipotence in His Birth in Time as Well as…
- Chapter V. He Shows by Proofs Drawn From Nature Itself, That the Law Which His…
- Chapter VI. He Refutes Another Argument of Nestorius, in Which He Tried to Make…
- Chapter VII. Heretics Usually Cover Their Doctrines With a Cloak of Holy…
- Chapter VIII. The Heretics Attribute to Christ Only the Shadow of Divinity, and…
- Chapter IX. How Those Are Wrong Who Say That the Birth of Christ Was a Secret…
- Chapter X. He Collects More Witnesses of the Same Fact
- Chapter XI. How the Devil Was Forced by Many Reasons to the View That Christ…
- Chapter XII. He Compares This Notion and Reasonable Suspicion of the Devil With…
- Chapter XIII. How the Devil Always Retained This Notion of Christ's Divinity…
- Chapter XIV. He Shows How Heretics Pervert Holy Scripture, by Replying to the…
- Chapter XV. How Christ Could Be Said by the Apostle to Be Without Genealogy
- Chapter XVI. He Shows That Like the Devil When Tempting Christ, the Heretics…
- Chapter XVII. That the Glory and Honour of Christ is Not to Be Ascribed to the…
- Chapter XVIII. How We Are to Understand the Apostle's Words: “He Appeared in…
- Chapter XIX. That it Was Not Only the Spirit, but Christ Himself Also Who Made…
- Chapter XX. He Tries by Stronger and Weightier Arguments to Destroy That Notion
- Chapter XXI. That it Must Be Ascribed Equally to Christ and the Holy Ghost That…
- Chapter XXII. That the Raising up of Christ Into Heaven is Not to Be Ascribed…
- Chapter XXIII. He Continues the Same Argument to Show That Christ Had No Need…
- Chapter XXIV. He Supports This Doctrine by the Authority of the Blessed Hilary
- Chapter XXV. He Shows That Ambrose Agrees With S. Hilary
- Chapter XXVI. He Adds to the Foregoing the Testimony of S. Jerome
- Chapter XXVII. To the Foregoing He Adds Rufinus and the Blessed Augustine
- Chapter XXVIII. As He is Going to Produce the Testimony of Greek or Eastern…
- Chapter XXIX. In the Next Place He Puts the Authority of S. Athanasius
- Chapter XXX. He Adds Also S. John Chrysostom
- Chapter XXXI. He Bemoans the Unhappy Lot of Constantinople, Owing to the…