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Volume VI

The Truth of the Faith

by St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787)

Written in his seventy-first year against the unbelief pouring out of Enlightenment Europe, and answering the materialists, the deists, and the adversaries of the Church in turn. In English for the first time.

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Front matter

Contents· 40 chapters, the first free to read

Part One: Against the Materialists, Who Deny the Existence of God

  1. Chapter 1. The Aim of the Work
  2. Chapter 2. God Proved from Created Things
  3. Chapter 3. God Proved from the World's Order
  4. Chapter 4. God Proved from Contingency
  5. Chapter 5. God Proved from Motion
  6. Chapter 6. God Proved from the Soul

Part Two: Against the Deists, Who Deny Revealed Religion

  1. Chapter 1. The Necessity of Revelation
  2. Chapter 2. The Truth of the Old Testament
  3. Chapter 3. The Old Testament Proved by Miracles
  4. Chapter 4. The Messianic Prophecies
  5. Chapter 5. The Prophecies Concerning the Jews
  6. Chapter 6. The Jews' Error on the Messiah's Kingdom
  7. Chapter 7. The Messiah's Foretold Lowliness
  8. Chapter 8. The Messiah's Foretold Passion
  9. Chapter 9. The Conversion of the Gentiles
  10. Chapter 10. The Gentiles' Conversion Confirms the Messiah
  11. Chapter 11. The Truth of the New Testament
  12. Chapter 12. Objections to the Gospels Answered
  13. Chapter 13. The Divine Doctrine of Christ
  14. Chapter 14. The Miracles of Christ
  15. Chapter 15. The Resurrection, Ascension, and Pentecost
  16. Chapter 16. The Miracles of the Apostles
  17. Chapter 17. Divine Providence
  18. Chapter 18. The Immortality of the Soul
  19. Chapter 19. Eternal Reward and Punishment

Part Three: Against the Sectarians, Who Deny the True Church

  1. Chapter 1. The Marks of the True Church
  2. Chapter 2. The Falsity of Pagan Religion
  3. Chapter 3. The Falsity of the Jewish Religion
  4. Chapter 4. The Falsity of Islam
  5. Chapter 5. The Roman Church, the One True Church
  6. Chapter 6. The Falsity of the Pretended Reformed Religion
  7. Chapter 7. The Supreme Head: St. Peter
  8. Chapter 8. The Popes, Successors of Peter
  9. Chapter 9. The Pope above Councils
  10. Chapter 10. Papal Infallibility
  11. Chapter 11. Conclusion of the Work

Appendices

  1. A Refutation of the Book Entitled *On the Mind*
  2. A Refutation of Another Book, *On Preaching*, by the Author of the *Philosophical Dictionary*
  3. An Exhortation to Those Zealous for the Faith of Jesus Christ
  4. A Prayer for the Good of the Holy Church