Book I.
Containing a General View of the Subjects Treated in Holy Scripture.
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- Contents of Christian Doctrine.
- Preface.
- Book I.
- Argument
- Chapter 1.--The Interpretation of Scripture Depends on the Discovery and Enunciation of the Meaning, and is to Be Undertaken in Dependence on God's Aid.
- Chapter 2.--What a Thing Is, and What A Sign.
- Chapter 3.--Some Things are for Use, Some for Enjoyment.
- Chapter 4.--Difference of Use and Enjoyment.
- Chapter 5.--The Trinity the True Object of Enjoyment.
- Chapter 6.--In What Sense God is Ineffable.
- Chapter 7.--What All Men Understand by the Term God.
- Chapter 8.--God to Be Esteemed Above All Else, Because He is Unchangeable Wisdom.
- Chapter 9.--All Acknowledge the Superiority of Unchangeable Wisdom to that Which is Variable.
- Chapter 10.--To See God, the Soul Must Be Purified.
- Chapter 11.--Wisdom Becoming Incarnate, a Pattern to Us of Purification.
- Chapter 12.--In What Sense the Wisdom of God Came to Us.
- Chapter 13.--The Word Was Made Flesh.
- Chapter 14.--How the Wisdom of God Healed Man.
- Chapter 15.--Faith is Buttressed by the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, and is Stimulated by His Coming to Judgment.
- Chapter 16.--Christ Purges His Church by Medicinal Afflictions.
- Chapter 17.--Christ, by Forgiving Our Sins, Opened the Way to Our Home.
- Chapter 18.--The Keys Given to the Church.
- Chapter 19.--Bodily and Spiritual Death and Resurrection.
- Chapter 20.--The Resurrection to Damnation.
- Chapter 21.--Neither Body Nor Soul Extinguished at Death.
- Chapter 22.--God Alone to Be Enjoyed.
- Chapter 23.--Man Needs No Injunction to Love Himself and His Own Body.
- Chapter 24.--No Man Hates His Own Flesh, Not Even Those Who Abuse It.
- Chapter 25.--A Man May Love Something More Than His Body, But Does Not Therefore Hate His Body.
- Chapter 26.--The Command to Love God and Our Neighbor Includes a Command to Love Ourselves.
- Chapter 27.--The Order of Love.
- Chapter 28.--How We are to Decide Whom to Aid.
- Chapter 29.--We are to Desire and Endeavor that All Men May Love God.
- Chapter 30.--Whether Angels are to Be Reckoned Our Neighbors.
- Chapter 31.--God Uses Rather Than Enjoys Us.
- Chapter 32.--In What Way God Uses Man.
- Chapter 33.--In What Way Man Should Be Enjoyed.
- Chapter 34.--Christ the First Way to God.
- Chapter 35.--The Fulfillment and End of Scripture is the Love of God and Our Neighbor.
- Chapter 36.--That Interpretation of Scripture Which Builds Us Up in Love is Not Perniciously Deceptive Nor Mendacious, Even Though It Be Faulty. The Interpreter, However, Should Be Corrected.
- Chapter 37.--Dangers of Mistaken Interpretation.
- Chapter 38.--Love Never Faileth.
- Chapter 39.--He Who is Mature in Faith, Hope and Love, Needs Scripture No Longer.
- Chapter 40.--What Manner of Reader Scripture Demands.
- Book II.
- Book III.
- Book IV.