An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book I

Book I

• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.1 — Chapter I.—That the Deity is incomprehensible, and that we ought not to pry into and meddle with the things which have not been delivered to us by the holy Prophets, and Apostles, and Evangelists. No one hath seen…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.2 — Concerning things utterable and things unutterable, and things knowable and thing unknowable. Chapter II.—Concerning things utterable and things unutterable, and things knowable and thing unknowable. It is necessary,…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.3 — Proof that there is a God. That there is a God, then, is no matter of doubt to those who receive the Holy Scriptures, the Old Testament, I mean, and the New; nor indeed to most of the Greeks. For, as we said, the…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.4 — Concerning the nature of Deity: that it is incomprehensible. It is plain, then, that there is a God. But what He is in His essence and nature is absolutely incomprehensible and unknowable. For it is evident that He…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.5 — Proof that God is one and not many. We have, then, adequately demonstrated that there is a God, and that His essence is incomprehensible. But that God is one and not many is no matter of doubt to those who believe in…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.6 — Concerning the Word and the Son of God: a reasoned proof. So then this one and only God is not Wordless. And possessing the Word, He will have it not as without a subsistence, nor as having had a beginning, nor as…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.7 — Concerning the Holy Spirit, a reasoned proof. Moreover the Word must also possess Spirit. For in fact even our word is not destitute of spirit; but in our case the spirit is something different from our essence. For…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.8 — Concerning the Holy Trinity. We believe, then, in One God, one beginning, having no beginning, uncreate, unbegotten, imperishable and immortal, everlasting, infinite, uncircumscribed, boundless, of infinite power,…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.9 — Concerning what is affirmed about God. The Deity is simple and uncompound. But that which is composed of many and different elements is compound. If, then, we should speak of the qualities of being uncreate and…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.10 — Concerning divine union and separation. Therefore all these names must be understood as common to deity as a whole, and as containing the notions of sameness and simplicity and indivisibility and union: while the…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.11 — Concerning what is affirmed about God as though He had body. Since we find many terms used symbolically in the Scriptures concerning God which are more applicable to that which has body, we should recognise that it…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.12 — Concerning the Same. The following, then, are the mysteries which we have learned from the holy oracles, as the divine Dionysius the Areopagite said: that God is the cause and beginning of all: the essence of all…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.13 — Concerning the place of God: and that the Deity alone is uncircumscribed. Bodily place is the limit of that which contains, by which that which is contained is contained: for example, the air contains but the body is…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.14 — The properties of the divine nature. Uncreate, without beginning, immortal, infinite, eternal, immaterial, good, creative, just, enlightening, immutable, passionless, uncircumscribed, immeasurable, unlimited,…vatican.va