Dubious or Spurious Writings, Twelve Topics on the Faith

Twelve Topics on the Faith

• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.1 — Topic I. Wherein is Given Also the Formula of Excommunication, and an Explication is Subjoined to Each. ———————————— Topic I. If any one says that the body of Christ is uncreated, and refuses to acknowledge that He,…vatican.va
• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.2 — Topic II. If any one affirms that the flesh of Christ is consubstantial with the divinity, and refuses to acknowledge that He, subsisting Himself in the form of God as God before all ages, emptied Himself and took…vatican.va
• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.3 — Topic III. If any one affirms that Christ, just like one of the prophets, assumed the perfect man, and refuses to acknowledge that, being begotten in the flesh of the Virgin, He became man and was born in Bethlehem,…vatican.va
• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.4 — Topic IV. If any one affirms that Christ was born of the seed of man by the Virgin, in the same manner as all men are born, and refuses to acknowledge that He was made flesh by the Holy Spirit and the holy Virgin…vatican.va
• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.5 — Topic V. If any one affirms that the Son of God who is before the ages is one, and He who has appeared in these last times is another, and refuses to acknowledge that He who is before the ages is the same with Him…vatican.va
• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.6 — Topic VI. If any one affirms that He who suffered is one, and that He who suffered not is another, and refuses to acknowledge that the Word, who is Himself the impassibie and unchangeable God, suffered in the flesh…vatican.va
• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.7 — Topic VII. If any one affirms that Christ is saved, and refuses to acknowledge that He is the Saviour of the world, and the Light of the world, even as it is written, let him be anathema. Explication. How could one…vatican.va
• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.8 — Topic VIII. If any one affirms that Christ is perfect man and also God the Word in the way of separation, and refuses to acknowledge the one Lord Jesus Christ, even as it is written, let him be anathema. Explication.…vatican.va
• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.9 — Topic IX. If any one says that Christ suffers change or alteration, and refuses to acknowledge that He is unchangeable in the Spirit, though corruptible in the flesh, let him be anathema. Explication. How could one…vatican.va
• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.10 — Topic X. If any one affirms that Christ assumed the man only in part, and refuses to acknowledge that He was made in all things like us, apart from sin, let him be anathema. Explication. How could one say that Christ…vatican.va
• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.11 — Topic XI. If any one affirms that the body of Christ is void of soul and understanding, and refuses to acknowledge that He is perfect man, one and the same in all things (with us), let him be anathema. Explication.…vatican.va
• Dubious or Spurious Writings Twelve Topics.12 — Topic XII. If any one says that Christ was manifested in the world only in semblance, and refuses to acknowledge that He came actually in the flesh, let him be anathema. Explication. How could one say that Christ was…vatican.va