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A Theologico-Political Treatise—Part 3

A Theologico-Political Treatise—Part 3

by Benedictus de Spinoza

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Author
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677
Title
A Theological-Political Treatise [Part III]
Credits
Joseph B. Yesselman. HTML version by Al Haines.
Language
English
LoC Class
B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Subject
Political science -- Early works to 1800
Category
Text
eBook-No.
991
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/991
Release Date
July 16, 1997
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A Theologico-Political Treatise
  2. 2.CHAPTER XI - AN INQUIRY WHETHER THE APOSTLES WROTE THEIR EPISTLES AS APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, OR MERELY AS TEACHERS; AND AN EXPLANATION OF WHAT IS MEANT BY AN APOSTLE.
  3. 3.CHAPTER XII - OF THE TRUE ORIGINAL OF THE DIVINE LAW, AND WHEREFORE SCRIPTURE IS CALLED SACRED, AND THE WORD OF GOD. HOW THAT, IN SO FAR AS IT CONTAINS THE WORD OF GOD, IT HAS COME DOWN TO US UNCORRUPTED.
  4. 4.CHAPTER XIII - IT IS SHOWN THAT SCRIPTURE TEACHES ONLY VERY SIMPLE DOCTRINES, SUCH AS SUFFICE FOR RIGHT CONDUCT.
  5. 5.CHAPTER XIV - DEFINITIONS OF FAITH, THE FAITH, AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH, WHICH IS ONCE FOR ALL SEPARATED FROM PHILOSOPHY.
  6. 6.CHAPTER XV - THEOLOGY IS SHOWN NOT TO BE SUBSERVIENT TO REASON, NOR REASON TO THEOLOGY: A DEFINITION OF THE REASON WHICH ENABLES US TO ACCEPT THE AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE.
  7. 7.AUTHOR'S ENDNOTES TO THE THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE

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