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The Doctrine of God the Redeemer

The Two Natures in Christ

The Dogma of the True Divinity of Christ, and Its Opponents

#72 Jesus Christ is True God and True Son of God.


The Reality of Christ’s Human Nature

#73 Christ assumed a real body, not an apparent body.


The Integrity of Christ’s Human Nature

#74 Christ assumed not only a body but also a rational soul.


The Adamite Origin of Christ’s Human Nature

#75 Christ was truly generated and born of a daughter of Adam, the Virgin Mary.


Christ is one Person

#76 The Divine and the human natures are united hypostatically in Christ, that is, joined to each other in one Person.


The Duality of the Natures

#77 In the Hypostatic Union each of the two natures of Christ continues unimpaired, untransformed and unmixed with the other.


The Duality of Wills and Modes of Operation in Christ

#78 Each of the two natures in Christ possesses its own natural will and its own natural mode of operation.


The Beginning and Duration of the Hypostatic Union

#79 The Hypostatic Union of Christ’s human nature with the Divine Logos took place at the moment of conception.

#80 The Hypostatic Union will never cease.


The Relationship of the Hypostatic Union to the Trinity

#81 The Hypostatic Union was effected by the Three Divine Persons acting in common.

#82 Only the Second Divine Person became Man.


The Natural Sonship of God of the Man

#83 Jesus Christ Not only as God but also as man Jesus Christ is the natural Son of God.


Christ’s Right to Adoration

#84 The God-Man Jesus Christ is to be venerated with one single mode of Worship, the absolute Worship of Latria which is due to God alone.


The Communication of Idioms

#85 Christ’s Divine and Human characteristics and activities are to be predicated of the one Word Incarnate.


The Attributes of Christ’s Human Nature

Christ’s Sinlessness and Impeccability

#86 Christ was free from all sin, from original sin as well as from all personal sin.


Christ’s Capacity for Suffering

#87 Christ’s human nature was passible.


The Purpose of the Incarnation

#88 The Son of God became man in order to redeem men.


Necessity for and Freedom of the Redemption

#89 Fallen man cannot redeem himself.


Reality of Christ’s Priestly Office

#90 The God-Man Jesus Christ is a High Priest.


The Exercise of the Sacerdotal Office or Christ’s Sacrifice

#91 Christ offered Himself on the Cross as a true and proper sacrifice.


The Soteriological Importance of Christ’s Sacrifice

#92 Christ by His Sacrifice on the Cross has ransomed us and reconciled us with God.


Christ’s Vicarious Atonement

#93 Christ did not die for the predestined only. Christ’s Merits Christ, through His Passion and Death, merited reward from God.


Christ’s Descent into Hell

#94 After His Death, Christ’s soul, which was separated from His body, descended into the underworld.


Christ’s Resurrection

#95 On the third day after His Death Christ rose gloriously from the dead.


Christ’s Ascension into Heaven

#96 Christ ascended body and soul into Heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father.


The Mother of the Redeemer

Reality of Mary’s Motherhood of God

#97 Mary is truly the Mother of God.


Mary’s Immaculate Conception

#98 Mary was conceived without stain of original sin.


Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

#99 Mary conceived by the Holy Ghost without the co-operation of man.

#100 Mary bore her Son without any violation of her virginal integrity.

#101 Also after the Birth of Jesus Mary remained a Virgin.


The Bodily Assumption of Mary into Heaven

#102 Mary was assumed body and soul into Heaven.




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