Book IV

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

1. Concerning what followed the Resurrection.
2. Concerning the sitting at the right hand of the Father.
3. 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.”
4. Why it was the Son of God, and not the Father or the Spirit, that became man: and what having became man He achieved.
5. In reply to those who ask if Christ's subsistence is create or uncreate.
6. Concerning the question, when Christ was called.
7. In answer to those who enquire whether the holy Mother of God bore two natures, and whether two natures hung upon the Cross.
8. How the Only-begotten Son of God is called first-born.
9. Concerning Faith and Baptism.
10. Concerning Faith.
11. Concerning the Cross and here further concerning Faith.
12. Concerning Worship towards the East.
13. Concerning the holy and immaculate Mysteries of the Lord.
14. Concerning our Lord's genealogy and concerning the holy Mother of God.
15. Concerning the honour due to the Saints and their remains.
16. Concerning Images.
17. Concerning Scripture.
18. Regarding the things said concerning Christ.
19. That God is not the cause of evils.
20. That there are not two Kingdoms.
21. The purpose for which God in His foreknowledge created persons who would sin and not repent.
22. Concerning the law of God and the law of sin.
23. Against the Jews on the question of the Sabbath.
24. Concerning Virginity.
25. Concerning the Circumcision.
26. Concerning the Antichrist.
27. Concerning the Resurrection.