| › 1 - The Occasion and Purpose of this Manual - CHAPTER I. The Occasion and Purpose of this "Manual"
1. I cannot say, my dearest son Laurence, how much your learning pleases me, and how much I de ...read |
| › 2 - The Creed and the Lord's Prayer as Guides - CHAPTER II. The Creed and the Lord's Prayer as Guides to the Interpretation of the Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love
7. Let us begin, fo ...read |
| › 3 - God the Creator of All; and the Goodness of All Creation - CHAPTER III. God the Creator of All; and the Goodness of All Creation
9. Wherefore, when it is asked what we ought to believe in matters of religio ...read |
| › 4 - The Problem of Evil - CHAPTER IV. The Problem of Evil
12. All of nature, therefore, is good, since the Creator of all nature is supremely good. But nature is not supreme ...read |
| › 5 - The Kinds and Degrees of Error - CHAPTER V. The Kinds and Degrees of Error
16. This being the case, when that verse of Maro's gives us pleasure,
"Happy is he who can understand ...read |
| › 6 - The Problem of Lying - CHAPTER VI. The Problem of Lying
18. Here a most difficult and complex issue arises which I once dealt with in a large book, in response to the urg ...read |
| › 7 - Disputed Questions about the Limits of Knowledge and Certainty - CHAPTER VII. Disputed Questions about the Limits of Knowledge and Certainty in Various Matters
20. I do not rightly know whether errors of this sor ...read |
| › 8 - The Plight of Man After the Fall - CHAPTER VIII. The Plight of Man After the Fall
23. With this much said, within the necessary brevity of this kind of treatise, as to what we need t ...read |
| › 9 - The Replacement of the Fallen Angels By Elect Men - CHAPTER IX. The Replacement of the Fallen Angels By Elect Men (28-30); The Necessity of Grace (30-32)
28. While some of the angels deserted God in ...read |
| › 10 - Jesus Christ the Mediator - CHAPTER X. Jesus Christ the Mediator
33. Thus it was that the human race was bound in a just doom and all men were children of wrath. Of this wrath ...read |
| › 11 - The Incarnation as Example of God's Grace - CHAPTER XI. The Incarnation as Prime Example of the Action of God's Grace
36. In this the grace of God is supremely manifest, commended in grand an ...read |
| › 12 - The Role of the Holy Spirit - CHAPTER XII. The Role of the Holy Spirit
38. Are we, then, to say that the Holy Spirit is the Father of Christ's human nature, so that as God the F ...read |
| › 13 - Baptism and Original Sin - CHAPTER XIII. Baptism and Original Sin
41. Since he was begotten and conceived in no pleasure of carnal appetite-and therefore bore no trace of ori ...read |
| › 14 - he Mysteries of Christ's Mediatorial Work and Justification - CHAPTER XIV. The Mysteries of Christ's Mediatorial Work (48-49) and Justification (50-55)
48. That one sin, however, committed in a setting of such ...read |
| › 15 - The Holy Spirit and the Church - CHAPTER XV. The Holy Spirit (56) and the Church (57-60)
56. Now, when we have spoken of Jesus Christ, the only Son of God our Lord, in the brevity ...read |
| › 16 - Problems About Heavenly and Earthly Divisions of the Church - CHAPTER XVI. Problems About Heavenly and Earthly Divisions of the Church
60. It is more important to be able to discern and tell when Satan transfo ...read |
| › 17 - Forgiveness of Sins in the Church - CHAPTER XVII. Forgiveness of Sins in the Church
64. The angels are in concord with us even now, when our sins are forgiven. Therefore, in the order ...read |
| › 18 - Faith and Works - CHAPTER XVIII [141] : Faith and Works
67. There are some, indeed, who believe that those who do not abandon the name of Christ, and who are baptize ...read |
| › 19 - Almsgiving and Forgiveness - CHAPTER XIX. Almsgiving and Forgiveness
70. We must beware, however, lest anyone suppose that unspeakable crimes such as they commit who "will not ...read |
| › 20 - Spiritual Almsgiving - CHAPTER XX. Spiritual Almsgiving
75. Now, surely, those who live in gross wickedness and take no care to correct their lives and habits, who yet, a ...read |
| › 21 - Problems of Casuistry - CHAPTER XXI. Problems of Casuistry
78. What sins are trivial and what are grave, however, is not for human but for divine judgment to determine. Fo ...read |
| › 22 - The Two Causes of Sin - CHAPTER XXII. The Two Causes of Sin
81. I shall now mention what I have often discussed before in other places in my short treatises. [186] We sin ...read |
| › 23 - Reality of the Resurrection - CHAPTER XXIII. The Reality of the Resurrection
84. Now, with respect to the resurrection of the body-and by this I do not mean the cases of resusci ...read |
| › 24 - Solution to Present Spiritual Enigmas - CHAPTER XXIV. The Solution to Present Spiritual Enigmas to Be Awaited in the Life of the World To Come
94. And thus it will be that while the repro ...read |
| › 25 - Predestination and the Justice of God - CHAPTER XXV. Predestination and the Justice of God
98. Furthermore, who would be so impiously foolish as to say that God cannot turn the evil wills ...read |
| › 26 - Triumph of God's Sovereign Good Will - CHAPTER XXVI. The Triumph of God's Sovereign Good Will
100. These are "the great works of the Lord, well-considered in all his acts of will" [218] ...read |
| › 27 - Limits of God's Plan for Human Salvation - CHAPTER XXVII. Limits of God's Plan for Human Salvation
103. Accordingly, when we hear and read in sacred Scripture that God "willeth that all men ...read |
| › 28 - The Destiny of Man - CHAPTER XXVIII. The Destiny of Man
104. Consequently, God would have willed to preserve even the first man in that state of salvation in which he w ...read |
| › 29 - The Last Things - CHAPTER XXIX. "The Last Things"
109. Now, for the time that intervenes between man's death and the final resurrection, there is a secret shelter fo ...read |
| › 30 - The Principles of Christian Living: Faith and Hope - CHAPTER XXX. The Principles of Christian Living: Faith and Hope
114. Thus, from our confession of faith, briefly summarized in the Creed (which is ...read |
| › 31 - Love - CHAPTER XXXI. Love
117. And now regarding love, which the apostle says is greater than the other two-that is, faith and hope-for the more richly it ...read |
| › 32 - The End of All the Law - CHAPTER XXXII. The End of All the Law
121. All the divine precepts are, therefore, referred back to love, of which the apostle says, "Now the end o ...read |
| › 33 - Conclusion - CHAPTER XXXIII. Conclusion
122. But somewhere this book must have an end. You can see for yourself whether you should call it an Enchiridion, or us ...read |
