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Chapter 4 FAITH, WITH AN EXPLANATION OF THE APOSTLES’ CREED (Part 1)
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0:00 [1] FAITH, WITH AN EXPLANATION OF THE APOSTLES' CREED
1:23 [2] Faith is more than mere belief
*On the term 'Sophist', see Chapter 2, note 20. The terms 'formed' and 'unformed faith' are explained below, pp. 203-205.
**Cf. the following paragraphs, where Calvin describes the 'faith' of the credulous and the 'faith' of the hypocrites.
6:56 [3] True faith defined
*See below, Calvin's discussion of the ministry of word and sacrament, pp. 265-267.
12:52 [4] The key to faith is certainty
17:37 [5] Faith, though tested, does not fail
*See above, Chapter 2, PP· 79-81.
23:48 [6] Faith's progress
29:55 [7] Fear is no obstacle to faith
33:16 [8] The two sources of godly fear
37:01 [9] Faith embraces God's love
39:33 [10] Faith founded on God's free promise
42:26 [11] God's promises effective only in Christ
45:04 [12] Faith requires the Spirit to illumine both mind and heart
50:08 [13] The Holy Spirit seals faith in our heart
*Cf. Aquinas, ‘Summa theologiae’, II, 1.112.5.
**See below, Chapter 6, 'Justification'.
54:49 [14] Erroneous Scholastic doctrines regarding faith and the Spirit
*Cf. Aquinas, ‘Summa theologiae’, II,1.112.5.
**Cf. Lombard, Sentences, III,23.4; Aquinas, ‘Summa theologiae’, II,2.4.3.
1:03:42 [15] Scripture knows nothing of 'unformed' and 'implicit' faith
*See below, Chapter 6, pp. 410-412.
**Cf. Aquinas, ‘Summa theologiae’, II,2.2.5-8.
1:08:36 [16] Faith as 'the evidence of things not seen'
*Cf. Lombard, ‘Sentences’, III.23.9; III.25.5.
**See below, Chapter 6, pp. 424-425.
1:11:54 [17] Faith seeks God, and finds him only in Christ
1:15:18 [18] The Apostles' Creed: preliminary remarks
1:19:22 [19] The four divisions of the Creed
1:21:23 [20] A note on Calvin's aim and method
*Hilary, ‘On the Trinity’, I.18.
**Chrysostom, ‘Homilies on the Incomprehensible Nature of God’, Hom. V.7. The Anomoeans denied the likeness of the Son and Father.
***On the Manicheans and Anthropomorphites, see above, respectively Chapter 2, note 7 and Chapter 3, note 3.
1:25:57 [21] God's words and the eternal Word
*Without mentioning in what follows any opponent by name, Calvin ...
1:30:38 [22] Arguments for the eternity of God's Son
1:33:40 [23] The Old Testament witness to Christ's deity
*A reference to medieval Jewish commentators who sought to refute the doctrine of Christ's divine Sonship.
1:38:38 [24] The New Testament witness to Christ
1:43:24 [25] Christ's deity attested by his works
1:47:42 [26] Divine honours are rightly paid to Christ's name
1:51:10 [27] The deity of the Holy Spirit
1:54:30 [28] God's oneness evidenced by Scripture
*The Arians were third-century schismatics who denied Christ's essential deity. Their heresy was condemned in 325 by the Council of Nicaea.
**The Macedonians followed Macedonius, fourth-century bishop of Constantinople, in rejecting the deity of the Holy Spirit.
1:57:38 [29] God in three persons: Father, Son, Spirit
*Gregory of Nazianzus, ‘On Holy Baptism’, Oratio XL.41.
2:00:26 [30] The Trinity: an ordered relationship of equals
*The Sabellians, an influential sect of the third century, sought to ...
2:05:00 [31] The terms 'essence' and 'persons'
*The general reference is to anti-Trinitarians of all persuasions. ...
2:09:02 [32] The need for Trinitarian terminology
*The 'one small word' was ‘homoousios’, 'consubstantial', incorporated into the church's creed by the Council of Nicaea.
**Hilary, ‘On the Councils’, XII, XXXI; Augustine, ‘On the Trinity’, VII.6.11.
***Hilary, ‘On the Councils’, XXVII.67-71.
****Hilary, ‘On the Trinity’, II.2.
*****Hilary, ‘On the Councils’, XXVII.63.
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
Robert White Translation (2014) (1541 edition)
