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Catechetical Lectures of Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem (347)
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Procatechesis or Prologue
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Lecture I - Introduction.
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Lecture II - On Repentance and Remission of Sins, and Concerning the Adversary.
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Lecture III - On Baptism.
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Lecture IV - On the Ten Points of Doctrine.
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Lecture V - Of Faith.
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Lecture VI - Concerning the Unity of God. On the Article, I Believe in One God. Also Concerning Heresies.
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Lecture VII - The Father.
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Lecture VIII - Almighty.
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Lecture IX - On the Words, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of All Things Visible and Invisible.
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Lecture X - On the Clause, and in One Lord Jesus Christ, with a Reading from the First Epistle to the Corinthians.
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Lecture XI - On the Words, the Only-Begotten Son of God, Begotten of the Father Very God Before All Ages, by Whom All Things Were Made.
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Lecture XII - On the Words, Incarnate, and Made Man.
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Lecture XIII - On the Words, Crucified, and Buried.
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Lecture XIV - On the Words, and Rose Again from the Dead on the Third Day, and Ascended into the Heavens, and Sat on the Right Hand of the Father,
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Lecture XV - On the Clause, and Shall Come in Glory to Judge the Quick and the Dead; Of Whose Kingdom There Shall Be No End,
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Lecture XVI - On the Article, and in One Holy Spirit, the Comforter, Which Spake in the Prophets
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Lecture XVII - Continuation of the Discourse on the Holy Spirit
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Lecture XVIII - On the Words, and in One Holy Catholic Church, and in the Resurrection of the Flesh, and the Life Everlasting
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Lecture XIX - First Lecture on the Mysteries
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Lecture XX - (on the Mysteries II) - Of Baptism
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Lecture XXI - (on the Mysteries III) - On Chrism
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Lecture XXII - (on the Mysteries IV) - On the Body and Blood of Christ
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Lecture XXIII - (on the Mysteries V) - On the Sacred Liturgy and Communion
Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (748) by St John of Damascus
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Chapter 1 - Concerning aeon or age.
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Chapter 2 - Concerning the creation.
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Chapter 3 - Concerning angels.
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Chapter 4 - Concerning the devil and demons.
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Chapter 5 - Concerning the visible creation.
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Chapter 6 - Concerning the Heaven.
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Chapter 7 - Concerning light, fire, the luminaries, sun, moon and stars.
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Chapter 8 - Concerning air and winds.
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Chapter 9 - Concerning the waters.
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Chapter 10 - Concerning earth and its products.
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Chapter 11 - Concerning Paradise.
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Chapter 12 - Concerning Man.
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Chapter 13 - Concerning Pleasures.
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Chapter 14 - Concerning Pain.
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Chapter 15 - Concerning Fear.Fear is divided into six varieties: viz., shrinking, shame, disgrace, consternation, panic, anxiety.
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Chapter 16 - Concerning Anger.
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Chapter 17 - Concerning Imagination.
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Chapter 18 - Concerning Sensation.
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Chapter 19 - Concerning Thought.
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Chapter 20 - Concerning Memory.
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Chapter 21 - Concerning Conception and Articulation.
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Chapter 22 - Concerning Passion and Energy.
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Chapter 23 - Concerning Energy.
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Chapter 24 - Concerning what is Voluntary and what is Involuntary.
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Chapter 25 - Concerning what is in our own power, that is, concerning Free-will.
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Chapter 26 - Concerning Events.
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Chapter 27 - Concerning the reason of our endowment with Free-will.
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Chapter 28 - Concerning what is not in our hands.
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Chapter 29 - Concerning Providence.
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Chapter 30 - Concerning Prescience and Predestination.
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Chapter 1 - Concerning the Divine Oeconomy and God’s care over us, and concerning our salvation.
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Chapter 2 - Concerning the manner in which the Word was conceived, and concerning His divine incarnation.
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Chapter 3 - Concerning Christ’s two natures, in apposition to those who hold that He has only one.
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Chapter 4 - Concerning the manner of the Mutual Communication.
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Chapter 5 - Concerning the number of the Natures.
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Chapter 6 - 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.
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Chapter 7 - Concerning the one compound subsistence of God the Word.
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Chapter 8 - In reply to those who ask whether the natures of the Lord are brought under a continuous or a discontinuous quantity.
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Chapter 9 - In reply to the question whether there is Nature that has no Subsistence.
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Chapter 10 - Concerning the Trisagium (“the Thrice Holy”).
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Chapter 11 - 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.”
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Chapter 12 - That the holy Virgin is the Mother of God: an argument directed against the Nestorians.
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Chapter 13 - Concerning the properties of the two Natures.
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Chapter 14 - Concerning the volitions and free-will of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Chapter 15 - Concerning the energies in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Chapter 16 - 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.”
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Chapter 17 - Concerning the deification of the nature of our Lord’s flesh and of His will.
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Chapter 18 - Further concerning volitions and free-wills: minds, too, and knowledges and wisdoms.
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Chapter 19 - Concerning the theandric energy.
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Chapter 20 - Concerning the natural and innocent passions.
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Chapter 21 - Concerning ignorance and servitude.
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Chapter 22 - Concerning His growth.
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Chapter 23 - Concerning His Fear.
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Chapter 24 - Concerning our Lord’s Praying.
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Chapter 25 - Concerning the Appropriation.
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Chapter 26 - Concerning the Passion of our Lord’s body, and the Impassibility of His divinity.
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Chapter 27 - 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.
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Chapter 28 - Concerning Corruption and Destruction.
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Chapter 29 - Concerning the Descent to Hades.