Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
HILARY OF POITIERS, JOHN OF DAMASCUS
NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHURCH FATHERS: SECOND SERIES: VOLUME IX. HILARY OF POITIERS, JOHN OF DAMASCUS.
A SELECT LIBRARY OF THE NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
St. Hilary of Poitiers. Select Works
The Life and Works of Hilary of Poitiers
Treatise De Synodis
De Trinitate
The Homilies on Psalms I., LIII., CXXX
Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus
St. Hilary of Poitiers. Select Works
The Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers
Treatise De Synodis
Introduction to the Treatise De Synodis
On the Councils, or, The Faith of the Easterns
De Trinitate
Introduction to the De Trinitate
On the Trinity
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Book XI
Book XII
The Homilies on Psalms I., LIII., CXXX
Introduction to the Homilies on Psalms I., LIII., CXXX
Homilies on the Psalms
Psalm I
Psalm LIII. (LIV.)
Psalm CXXX. (CXXXI.)
Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus
Prologue
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
Book I
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
Chapter II
Concerning things utterable and things unutterable, and things knowable and thing unknowable
Chapter III
Proof that there is a God
Chapter IV
Concerning the nature of Deity: that it is incomprehensible
Chapter V
Proof that God is one and not many
Chapter VI
Concerning the Word and the Son of God: a reasoned proof
Chapter VII
Concerning the Holy Spirit, a reasoned proof
Chapter VIII
Concerning the Holy Trinity
Chapter IX
Concerning what is affirmed about God
Chapter X
Concerning divine union and separation
Chapter XI
Concerning what is affirmed about God as though He had body
Chapter XII
Concerning the Same
Chapter XIII
Concerning the place of God: and that the Deity alone is uncircumscribed
Chapter XIV
The properties of the divine nature
Book II
Chapter I
Concerning aeon or age
Chapter II
Concerning the creation
Chapter III
Concerning angels
Chapter IV
Concerning the devil and demons
Chapter V
Concerning the visible creation
Chapter VI
Concerning the Heaven
Chapter VII
Concerning light, fire, the luminaries, sun, moon and stars
Chapter VIII
Concerning air and winds
Chapter IX
Concerning the waters
Chapter X
Concerning earth and its products
Chapter XI
Concerning Paradise
Chapter XII
Concerning Man
Chapter XIII
Concerning Pleasures
Chapter XIV
Concerning Pain
Chapter XV
Concerning Fear
Chapter XVI
Concerning Anger
Chapter XVII
Concerning Imagination
Chapter XVIII
Concerning Sensation
Chapter XIX
Concerning Thought
Chapter XX
Concerning Memory
Chapter XXI
Concerning Conception and Articulation
Chapter XXII
Concerning Passion and Energy
Chapter XXIII
Concerning Energy
Chapter XXIV
Concerning what is Voluntary and what is Involuntary
Chapter XXV
Concerning what is in our own power, that is, concerning Free-will
Chapter XXVI
Concerning Events
Chapter XXVII
Concerning the reason of our endowment with Free-will
Chapter XXVIII
Concerning what is not in our hands
Chapter XXIX
Concerning Providence
Chapter XXX
Concerning Prescience and Predestination
Book III
Chapter I
Concerning the Divine OEconomy and God’s care over us, and concerning our salvation
Chapter II
Concerning the manner in which the Word was conceived, and concerning His divine incarnation
Chapter III
Concerning Christ’s two natures, in opposition to those who hold that He has only one
Chapter IV
Concerning the manner of the Mutual Communication
Chapter V
Concerning the number of the Natures
Chapter VI
That in one of its subsistences the divine nature is united in its entirety to the human nature, in its entirety and not only part to part
Chapter VII
Concerning the one compound subsistence of God the Word
Chapter VIII
In reply to those who ask whether the natures of the Lord are brought under a continuous or a discontinuous quantity
Chapter IX
In reply to the question whether there is Nature that has no Subsistence
Chapter X
Concerning the Trisagium (“the Thrice Holy”)
Chapter XI
Concerning the Nature as viewed in Species and in Individual, and concerning the difference between Union and Incarnation: and how this is to be understood, “The one Nature of God the Word Incarnate.”
Chapter XII
That the holy Virgin is the Mother of God: an argument directed against the Nestorians
Chapter XIII
Concerning the properties of the two Natures
Chapter XIV
Concerning the volitions and free-will of our Lord Jesus Christ
Chapter XV
Concerning the energies in our Lord Jesus Christ
Chapter XVI
In reply to those who say “If man has two natures and two energies, Christ must be held to have three natures and as many energies.”
Chapter XVII
Concerning the deification of the nature of our Lord’s flesh and of His will
Chapter XVIII
Further concerning volitions and free-wills: minds, too, and knowledges and wisdoms
Chapter XIX
Concerning the theandric energy
Chapter XX
Concerning the natural and innocent passions
Chapter XXI
Concerning ignorance and servitude
Chapter XXII
Concerning His growth
Chapter XXIII
Concerning His Fear
Chapter XXIV
Concerning our Lord’s Praying
Chapter XXV
Concerning the Appropriation
Chapter XXVI
Concerning the Passion of our Lord’s body, and the Impassibility of His divinity
Chapter XXVII
Concerning the fact that the divinity of the Word remained inseparable from the soul and the body, even at our Lord’s death, and that His subsistence continued one
Chapter XXVIII
Concerning Corruption and Destruction
Chapter XXIX
Concerning the Descent to Hades
Book IV
Chapter I
Concerning what followed the Resurrection
Chapter II
Concerning the sitting at the right hand of the Father
Chapter III
In reply to those who say “If Christ has two natures, either ye do service to the creature in worshipping created nature, or ye say that there is one nature to be worshipped, and another not to be worshipped.”
Chapter IV
Why it was the Son of God, and not the Father or the Spirit, that became man: and what having became man He achieved
Chapter V
In reply to those who ask if Christ’s subsistence is create or uncreate
Chapter VI
Concerning the question, when Christ was called
Chapter VII
In answer to those who enquire whether the holy Mother of God bore two natures, and whether two natures hung upon the Cross
Chapter VIII
How the Only-begotten Son of God is called first-born
Chapter IX
Concerning Faith and Baptism
Chapter X
Concerning Faith
Chapter XI
Concerning the Cross and here further concerning Faith
Chapter XII
Concerning Worship towards the East
Chapter XIII
Concerning the holy and immaculate Mysteries of the Lord
Chapter XIV
Concerning our Lord’s genealogy and concerning the holy Mother of God
Chapter XV
Concerning the honour due to the Saints and their remains
Chapter XVI
Concerning Images
Chapter XVII
Concerning Scripture
Chapter XVIII
Regarding the things said concerning Christ
Chapter XIX
That God is not the cause of evils
Chapter XX
That there are not two Kingdoms
Chapter XXI
The purpose for which God in His foreknowledge created persons who would sin and not repent
Chapter XXII
Concerning the law of God and the law of sin
Chapter XXIII
Against the Jews on the question of the Sabbath
Chapter XXIV
Concerning Virginity
Chapter XXV
Concerning the Circumcision
Chapter XXVI
Concerning the Antichrist
Chapter XXVII
Concerning the Resurrection
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