On the Holy Trinity, Book I

Book I

• On the Holy Trinity I.1 — Chapter 1.—This Work is Written Against Those Who Sophistically Assail the Faith of the Trinity, Through Misuse of Reason. They Who Dispute Concerning God Err from a Threefold Cause. Holy Scripture, Removing What is…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.2 — In What Manner This Work Proposes to Discourse Concerning the Trinity. 4. Wherefore, our Lord God helping, we will undertake to render, as far as we are able, that very account which they so importunately demand:…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.3 — What Augustin Requests from His Readers. The Errors of Readers Dull of Comprehension Not to Be Ascribed to the Author. Chapter 3.—What Augustin Requests from His Readers. The Errors of Readers Dull of Comprehension…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.4 — What the Doctrine of the Catholic Faith is Concerning the Trinity. 7. All those Catholic expounders of the divine Scriptures, both Old and New, whom I have been able to read, who have written before me concerning the…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.5 — Chapter 5.—Of Difficulties Concerning the Trinity: in What Manner Three are One God, and How, Working Indivisibly, They Yet Perform Some Things Severally. 8. Some persons, however, find a difficulty in this faith;…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.6 — Chapter 6.—That the Son is Very God, of the Same Substance with the Father. Not Only the Father, But the Trinity, is Affirmed to Be Immortal. All Things are Not from the Father Alone, But Also from the Son. That the…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.7 — In What Manner the Son is Less Than the Father, and Than Himself. 14. In these and like testimonies of the divine Scriptures, by free use of which, as I have said, our predecessors exploded such sophistries or errors…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.8 — Chapter 8.—The Texts of Scripture Explained Respecting the Subjection of the Son to the Father, Which Have Been Misunderstood. Christ Will Not So Give Up the Kingdom to the Father, as to Take It Away from Himself.…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.9 — All are Sometimes Understood in One Person. But this is said, not on account of any inequality of the Word of God and of the Holy Spirit, but as though the presence of the Son of man with them would be a hindrance to…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.10 — Chapter 10.—In What Manner Christ Shall Deliver Up the Kingdom to God, Even the Father. The Kingdom Having Been Delivered to God, Even the Father, Christ Will Not Then Make Intercession for Us. 20. Our Lord Jesus…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.11 — By What Rule in the Scriptures It is Understood that the Son is Now Equal and Now Less. Chapter 11.—By What Rule in the Scriptures It is Understood that the Son is Now Equal and Now Less. 22. Wherefore, having…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.12 — Chapter 12.—In What Manner the Son is Said Not to Know the Day and the Hour Which the Father Knows. Some Things Said of Christ According to the Form of God, Other Things According to the Form of a Servant. In What…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity I.13 — Chapter 13.—Diverse Things are Spoken Concerning the Same Christ, on Account of the Diverse Natures of the One Hypostasis [Theanthropic Person]. Why It is Said that the Father Will Not Judge, But Has Given Judgment…vatican.va