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Translator's
Foreword
Introduction
THE FIRST BOOK
§ 1. How the life in Christ begins in this life
§ 2. The life in Christ consists of union with
Him
§ 3. The intimacy of our union with Christ
§ 4. In this union Christ is all-sufficient
§ 5. We attain to this union by newness of life
§ 6. Christ bestows this new life through His
Mysteries
§ 7. Christ's saving work as the foundation of
the new life
§ 8. How the righteous under the Old Covenant
looked forward to their deliverance by Christ
§ 9. How Christ opens to us the gates of life
§ 10. The ransom which Christ has paid for
us
§ 11. The Mysteries as the means by which we
appropriate Christ's saving work
THE SECOND BOOK
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1. How the Holy Mysteries unite
us to Christ
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2. Baptism as the new birth in
Christ
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3. How the various ceremonies
preceding Baptism prepare for the new life in Christ
a) The exorcism
b) The
insufflation
c) The stripping of the candidate
d) The renunciation
e) The recitation of the Nicene Creed
f) The anointing before Baptism
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4. The baptismal act and its
significance
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5. The invocation of the
Three-fold Name
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6. How we in Baptism
appropriate the saving acts of Christ
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7. Baptism and original sin
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8. The deliverance which
Baptism obtains for us
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9. How Baptism confers newness
of life in Christ
§ 10.
Excursus—on the resurrection of the dead
§ 11.
How apostasy cannot destroy Christ's gift
§ 12.
Baptism and the powers of the age to come
§ 13.
How the effects of Baptism are shown
§ 14.
The examples of the martyrs for Christ
§ 15.
How Baptism enables us to endure all things for Christ
§ 16.
How experience prepared the saints
§ 17.
How Baptism has converted scoffers to Christ
§ 18.
Baptism as a personal experience of God
§ 19.
How this experience engenders love for Him
§ 20.
The testimony of Saint John Chrysostom to this effect
§ 21.
How Baptism is an illumination
§ 22.
Summary: The effects of Baptism
THE THIRD BOOK
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1. How Scripture links the
gift of the Spirit with anointing
and imposition
of hands
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2. How Christ Himself was
anointed with the Holy Spirit
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3. How Christ is the Source of
our spiritual anointing
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4. How Chrismation confers the
gifts of the Holy Spirit
§
5. The efficacy of the holy
chrism
§
6. The Sacraments as means of
our salvation
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7. Summary: Chrismation
makes us partakers of Christ,
the Anointed
One
THE FOURTH BOOK
§ 1.
The greatest of all the Mysteries
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2. How the Eucharist completes
Baptism and Chrismation
§
3. The Eucharist perfects the
other Mysteries
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4. Excursus—Christ's atoning
work
§
5. The Eucharist as the
application of the atonement
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6. How this Mystery unites us
to Christ
§
7. How Christ's flesh sets us
free from the law of the flesh
§
8. How the Eucharist
enables us to worship "in spirit and
in truth"
§
9. How the Eucharist makes us
sons of God
§ 10.
How the Eucharist forms the new man in Christ
§ 11. The
Eucharist compared with Baptism
a) with regard to the purification
bestowed
b) with regard to the co-operation required
of us
§ 12.
Christ as our Ally in the struggle
§13.
How, in the Eucharist, Christ is the reward for victory
§ 14.
Excursus—a comparison of martyrdom and Baptism
§ 15.
The sanctifying effects of the Eucharist
§ 16.
How this union with Christ delivers from sin
§ 17.
How Christ re-creates us through the Eucharist
§ 18.
How Christ by setting us free becomes our King
§ 19.
How our very bodies benefit from the new life
§ 20.
The future glory of those who live in Christ
THE FIFTH BOOK
§ 1. The altar and the sacred Mysteries
§ 2. The ceremonies of consecration
§ 3. How the rites signify man's consecration
to God
§ 4. The meaning of the ceremonies of
purification
§ 5. The meaning of the anointing of the altar
§ 6. The appropriateness of the sacred
relics
§ 7. The remaining sacred rites and their
significance
THE SIXTH BOOK
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1. The necessity of preserving
the grace which we have received
§
2. How we must cleave to
Christ, the source of our life
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3. How the love of Christ leads
to detachment from the things
of earth
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4. How Christ in His love is
united to us
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5. How we should esteem
ourselves as members of Christ
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6. How love of Christ leads to
true repentance
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7. How we must constantly
meditate on these things
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8. The law of the Spirit is the
law of love
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9. How we must apply our minds
to this law
§ 10.
The spiritual profit of meditation on Christ
§ 11.
On the Beatitudes of Christ
a) The first Beatitude—poverty
of spirit
b) The second Beatitude—godly
sorrow
c) The third Beatitude—gentleness
d) The fourth Beatitude—hunger
and thirst for righteousness
e) The fifth Beatitude—compassion
f) The sixth Beatitude—purity
of heart
g) The seventh Beatitude—striving
for peace
h) The eighth Beatitude—suffering
reproach for Christ
§ 12.
Christ the Exemplar of our perfection
§ 13.
How meditation is based on constant prayer
§ 14.
The benefits of frequent Communion
THE SEVENTH BOOK
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1. Perfection in virtue resides
in the will
§
2. How the Mysteries influence
our wills for goodness
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3. How pleasure and pain test
the will
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4. How true sorrow consists of
hatred of sin
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5. The Christian as the temple
of God
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6. The virtue of detachment
§
7. How we ought to sorrow over
sin
§
8. Such godly sorrow springs
from the love of God
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9. The Christian's joy
§ 10.
The source of our joy is love for God
§ 11. How
the love of God issues in self-giving and self-surrender
§ 12.
How self-surrender leads to joy
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13. How love for God leads to
forgetfulness of self
§ 14.
Examples of selfless service for Christ
§ 15.
The life in Christ may be summed up by love and joy
