St. Robert Bellarmine’s Disputations about Controversies of the Christian Faith
Volume One
First General Controversy: On the Word of God, Written and Unwritten In Four Books
The Latin Version is Found Here
Book One: On the Sacred and Apocryphal Books.
Chapter One: Is Scripture the Word of God?
Chapter Two: In the Books called Canonical the Word of God is Contained
Chapter Four: Which are the Sacred Books
Chapter Five: About the Heretics who Opposed the books of the Old Testament of the First Order
Chapter Six: On the Heretics who Attack the Books of the New Testament Enumerated Above
Chapter Seven: On the Book of Esther
Chapter Eight: On the Book of Baruch
Chapter Nine: On Certain Chapters in Daniel
Chapter Ten: On the Books of Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, and Maccabees
Chapter Eleven: On the Book of Tobit
Chapter Twelve: On the Book of Judith
Chapter Thirteen: On the Book of Wisdom
Chapter Fourteen: On Ecclesiasticus
Chapter Fifteen: On the Books of the Maccabees
Chapter Sixteen: On Certain Parts of the Books of Mark, Luke, and John
Chapter Seventeen: On the Epistle to the Hebrews
Chapter Eighteen: On the Epistles of James, of Jude, of Second Peter, of Second and Third John
Chapter Nineteen: On the Apocalypse
Chapter Twenty: On the Apocryphal Books
Book Two: On the Hebrew, Chaldee, Greek and Latin Vulgate Editions.
Chapter One: It is Shown that the Hebrew Edition of Moses and the Prophets has never Perished
Chapter Two: Whether the Hebrew Edi ion has been Corrupted
Chapter Three: On the Chaldee Edition
Chapter Four: On the Syriac Edition
Chapter Five: On the Various Greek Editions
Chapter Six: On the Septuagint
Chapter Seven: On the Greek Edition of the New Testament
Chapter Eight: On the Latin Editions
Chapter Nine: On the Author of the Vulgate Edition
Chapter Ten: On the Authority of the Latin Vulgate Edition
Chapter Eleven: The Objections of the Heretics against the Vulgate Edition are Solved
Chapter Twelve: The Places are Defended that Chemnitz says are Distorted in the Vulgate
Chapter Fifteen: On Vernacular Editions
Chapter Sixteen: The Objections of the Heretics are Solved
Book Three: On the Interpretation of the Word of God.
Chapter Two: The Objections of the Adversaries are Solved
Chapter Four: Testimonies are Adduced from the Old Testament for the Opinion of Catholics
Chapter Five: The Same is Proved from the New Testament
Chapter Six: The Same is Proved from the Custom of the Church
Chapter Seven: the Same is proved by the Testimonies of Pontiffs and Emperors
Chapter Eight: the Same is Proved by the Testimony of the Fathers
Chapter Nine: the Same is Proved by Reason
Chapter Ten: the Objections are Solved
Book Four: On the Unwritten Word of God.
Chapter One: Those who have most of all Defended or Attacked Unwritten Traditions
Chapter Two: What and How Multiple Tradition is
Chapter Four: the Necessity for Traditions is Shown
Chapter Five: That there are True Traditions is Demonstrated from the Scriptures
Chapter Six: The Same is Shown by the Testimonies of the Pontiffs and the Councils
Chapter Seven: The Same is Proved from the Fathers
Chapter Eight: The Same is Proved by Four Other Arguments
Chapter Nine: Five Rules are Explained by which we Come to Knowledge of True Traditions
Chapter Ten: The Objections of the Adversaries Taken from the Scriptures are Solved
Chapter Eleven: The Objections from the Fathers are Solved
Chapter Twelve: The Reasonings of the Adversaries are Solved
END OF FIRST CONTROVERSY
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