AGAINST HERMOGENES
- CHAP.I.—THE OPINIONS OF HERMOGENES, BY THE
PRESCRIPTIVE RULE OF ANTIQUITY SHOWN TO BE HERETICAL. NOT DERIVED FROM
CHRISTIANITY, BUT FROM HEATHEN PHILOSOPHY. SOME OF THE TENETS
MENTIONED.
- CHAP. II.—HERMOGENES, AFTER A PERVERSE INDUCTION
FROM MERE HERETICAL ASSUMPTIONS, CONCLUDES THAT GOD CREATED ALL THINGS
OUT OF PRE-EXISTING MATTER.
- CHAP. III.—AN ARGUMENT OF HERMOGENES. THE
ANSWER: WHILE GOD IS A TITLE ETERNALLY APPLICABLE TO THE DIVINE BEING,
LORD AND FATHER ARE ONLY RELATIVE APPELLATIONS, NOT ETERNALLY
APPLICABLE. AN INCONSISTENCY IN THE ARGUMENT OF HERMOGENES POINTED OUT
- CHAP. IV.—HERMOGENES GIVES DIVINE ATTRIBUTES TO
MATTER, AND SO MAKES TWO GODS.
- CHAP. V.—HERMOGENES COQUETS WITH HIS OWN
ARGUMENT, AS IF RATHER AFRAID OF IT. AFTER INVESTING MATTER WITH
DIVINE QUALITIES, HE TRIES TO MAKE IT SOMEHOW INFERIOR TO GOD.
- CHAP. VI.—THE SHIFTS TO WHICH HERMOGENES IS
REDUCED, WHO DEIFIES MATTER, AND YET IS UNWILLING TO HOLD HIM EQUAL
WITH THE DIVINE CREATOR.
- CHAP. VII.—HERMOGENES HELD TO HIS THEORY IN
ORDER THAT ITS ABSURDITY MAY BE EXPOSED ON HIS OWN PRINCIPLES.
- CHAP. VIII.—ON HIS OWN PRINCIPLES, HERMOGENES
MAKES MATTER, ON THE WHOLE, SUPERIOR TO GOD.
- CHAP. X.—TO WHAT STRAITS HERMOGENES ABSURDLY
REDUCES THE DIVINE BEING. HE DOES NOTHING SHORT OF MAKING HIM THE
AUTHOR OF EVIL.
- CHAP. XI.—HERMOGENES MAKES GREAT EFFORTS TO
REMOVE EVIL FROM GOD TO MATTER. HOW HE FAILS TO DO THIS CONSISTENTLY
WITH HIS OWN ARGUMENT.
- CHAP. XII.—THE MODE OF CONTROVERSY CHANGED. THE
PREMISSES OF HERMOGENES ACCEPTED, IN ORDER TO SHOW INTO WHAT CONFUSION
THEY LEAD HIM.
- CHAP. XIII.—ANOTHER GROUND OF HERMOGENES THAT
MATTER HAS SOME GOOD IN IT. ITS ABSURDITY.
- CHAP. XIV.—TERTULLIAN PUSHES HIS OPPONENT INTO
A DILEMMA.
- CHAP. XV.—THE TRUTH, THAT GOD MADE ALL THINGS
FROM NOTHING, RESCUED FROM THE OPPONENT'S FLOUNDERINGS.
- CHAP. XVI.—A SERIES OF DILEMMAS. THEY SHOW THAT
HERMOGENES CANNOT ESCAPE FROM THE ORTHODOX CONCLUSION.
- CHAP. XVII.—THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORK IN
CREATION. YOU CANNOT DEPART IN THE LEAST FROM IT, WITHOUT LANDING
YOURSELF IN AN ABSURDITY.
- CHAP. XVIII.—AN EULOGY ON THE WISDOM AND WORD
OF GOD, BY WHICH GOD MADE ALL THINGS OF NOTHING.
- CHAP. XIX.—AN APPEAL TO THE HISTORY OF
CREATION. TRUE MEANING OF THE TERM BEGINNING, WHICH THE HERETIC
CURIOUSLY WRESTS TO AN ABSURD SENSE.
- CHAP. XX.—MEANING OF THE PHRASE—IN THE
BEGINNING. TERTULLIAN CONNECTS IT WITH THE WISDOM OF GOD, AND ELICITS
FROM IT THE TRUTH THAT THE CREATION WAS NOT OUT OF PRE-EXISTENT MATTER.
- CHAP. XXI. — A RETORT OF HERESY ANSWERED. THAT
SCRIPTURE SHOULD IN SO MANY WORDS TELL US THAT THE WORLD WAS MADE OF
NOTHING IS SUPERFLUOUS.
- CHAP. XXII. — THIS CONCLUSION CONFIRMED BY THE
USAGE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE IN ITS HISTORY OF THE CREATION. HERMOGENES IN
DANGER OF THE WOE PRONOUNCED AGAINST ADDING TO SCRIPTURE.
- CHAP. XXIII. — HERMOGENES PURSUED TO ANOTHER
PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE. THE ABSURDITY OF HIS INTERPRETATION EXPOSED.
- CHAP. XXIV. — EARTH DOES NOT MEAN MATTER AS
HERMOGENES WOULD HAVE IT.
- CHAP. XXV.—THE ASSUMPTION THAT THERE ARE TWO
EARTHS MENTIONED IN THE HISTORY OF THE CREATION, REFUTED.
- CHAP. XXVI.—THE METHOD OBSERVED IN THE HISTORY
OF THE CREATION, IN REPLY TO THE PERVERSE INTERPRETATION OF HERMOGENES.
- CHAP. XXVII.—SOME HAIR-SPLITTING USE OF WORDS
IN WHICH HIS OPPONENT HAD INDULGED.
- CHAP. XXVIII.—A CURIOUS INCONSISTENCY IN
HERMOGENES EXPOSED. CERTAIN EXPRESSIONS IN THE HISTORY OF CREATION
VINDICATED IN THE TRUE SENSE.
- CHAP. XXIX.—THE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF COSMICAL
ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE CREATION, BEAUTIFULLY STATED.
- CHAP. XXX.—ANOTHER PASSAGE IN THE SACRED
HISTORY OF THE CREATION, RELEASED FROM THE MISHANDLING OF HERMOGENES.
- CHAP. XXXI.—A FURTHER VINDICATION OF THE
SCRIPTURE NARRATIVE OF THE CREATION, AGAINST A FUTILE VIEW OF
HERMOGENES.
- CHAP.XXXII.—THE ACCOUNT OF THE CREATION IN
GENESIS A GENERAL ONE. CORROBORATED, HOWEVER, BY MANY OTHER PASSAGES OF
THE OLD TESTAMENT, WHICH GIVE ACCOUNT OF SPECIFIC CREATIONS. FURTHER
CAVILLINGS CONFUTED.
- CHAP. XXXIII.—STATEMENT OF THE TRUE DOCTRINE
CONCERNING MATTER. ITS RELATION TO GOD'S CREATION OF THE WORLD.
- CHAP. XXXIV.—A PRESUMPTION THAT ALL THINGS WERE
CREATED BY GOD OUT OF NOTHING AFFORDED BY THE ULTIMATE REDUCTION OF ALL
THINGS TO NOTHING. SCRIPTURES PROVING THIS REDUCTION VINDICATED FROM
HERMOGENES' CHARGE OF BEING MERELY FIGURATIVE.
- CHAP. XXXV.—CONTRADICTORY PROPOSITIONS ADVANCED
BY HERMOGENES RESPECTING MATTER AND ITS QUALITIES,
- CHAP. XXXVI.—OTHER ABSURD THEORIES RESPECTING
MATTER AND ITS INCIDENTS EXPOSED IN AN IRONICAL STRAIN, MOTION IN
MATTER. HERMOGENES' CONCEITS RESPECTING IT.
- CHAP. XXXVII.—IRONICAL DILEMMAS RESPECTING
MATTER, AND SUNDRY MORAL QUALITIES FANCIFULLY ATTRIBUTED TO IT.
- CHAP. XXXlII.—OTHER SPECULATIONS OF HERMOGENES,
ABOUT MATTER AND SOME OF ITS ADJUNCTS, SHOWN TO BE ABSURD. FOR
INSTANCE, ITS ALLEGED INFINITY.
- CHAP. XXXIX.—THESE LATTER SPECULATIONS SHOWN
TO BE CONTRADICTORY TO THE FIRST PRINCIPLES RESPECTING MATTER, FORMERLY
LAID DOWN BY HERMOGENES.
- CHAP. XL.—SHAPELESS MATTER AN INCONGRUOUS
ORIGIN FOR GOD'S BEAUTIFUL COSMOS. HERMOGENES DOES NOT MEND HIS
ARGUMENT BY SUPPOSING THAT ONLY A PORTION OF MATTER WAS USED IN THE
CREATION.
- CHAP. XLI.—SUNDRY QUOTATIONS FROM HERMOGENES.
NOW UNCERTAIN AND VAGUE ARE HIS SPECULATIONS RESPECTING MOTION IN
MATTER, AND THE MATERIAL QUALITIES OF GOOD AND EVIL.
- CHAP. XLII.—FURTHER EXPOSURE OF INCONSISTENCIES
IN THE OPINIONS OF HERMOGENES RESPECTING THE DIVINE QUALITIES OF
MATTER.
- CHAP. XLIII.—OTHER DISCREPANCIES EXPOSED AND
REFUTED RESPECTING THE EVIL IN MATTER BEING CHANGED TO GOOD.
- CHAP. XLIV.—CURIOUS VIEWS RESPECTING GOD'S
METHOD OF WORKING WITH MATTER EXPOSED. DISCREPANCIES IN THE HERETIC'S
OPINION ABOUT GOD'S LOCAL RELATION TO MATTER.
- CHAP. XLV.—CONCLUSION. CONTRAST BETWEEN THE
STATEMENTS OF HERMOGENES AND THE TESTIMONY OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
RESPECTING THE CREATION, CREATION OUT OF NOTHING, NOT OUT OF MATTER.
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