Book I

An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (De Fide Orthodoxa) · Saint John of Damascus

1. 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.
2. Concerning things utterable and things unutterable, and things knowable and thing unknowable.
3. Proof that there is a God.
4. Concerning the nature of Deity: that it is incomprehensible.
5. Proof that God is one and not many.
6. Concerning the Word and the Son of God: a reasoned proof.
7. Concerning the Holy Spirit, a reasoned proof.
8. Concerning the Holy Trinity.
9. Concerning what is affirmed about God.
10. Concerning divine union and separation.
11. Concerning what is affirmed about God as though He had body.
12. Concerning the Same.
13. Concerning the place of God: and that the Deity alone is uncircumscribed.
14. The properties of the divine nature.