The Unity and Trinity of God
The Existence of God
The Possibility of the Natural Knowledge of God in the Light of Supernatural Revelation
#1 God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things.
God’s Existence as an Object of Faith
#2 God’s existence is not merely an object of natural rational knowledge, but also an object of supernatural faith.
The Nature of God
The Natural Knowledge of the Nature of God in This World
#3 God’s Nature is incomprehensible to men.
The Supernatural Knowledge of the Divine Essence in the Other World
#4 The blessed in Heaven possess an immediate intuitive knowledge of the Divine Essence.
#5 The Immediate Vision of God transcends the natural power of cognition of the human soul, and is therefore supernatural.
#6 The soul, for the Immediate Vision of God, requires the light of glory.
#7 God’s Essence is also incomprehensible to the blessed in Heaven.
The Attributes or the Qualities of God
The Attributes of God in General
#8 The Divine Attributes are really identical among themselves and with the Divine Essence.
The Absolute Perfection of God
#9 God is absolutely perfect.
God’s Infinity
#10 God is actually infinite in every perfection.
God’s Simplicity
#11 God is absolutely simple.
God’s Unicity
#12 There is only One God.
God’s Truth
#13 The One God is, in the ontological sense, The True God.
#14 God possesses an infinite power of cognition.
#15 God is absolute Veracity.
#16 God is absolutely faithful.
God’s Goodness
#17 God is absolute ontological Goodness in Himself and in relation to others.
#18 God is absolute Moral Goodness or Holiness.
#19 God is absolute Benignity.
God’s Immutability
#20 God is absolutely immutable.
God’s Eternity
#21 God is eternal.
The Immensity or Immeasurability of God and His Omnipresence
#22 God is immense or absolutely immeasurable.
#23 God is everywhere present in created space.
The Perfection of Divine Knowledge
#24 God’s Knowledge Is Infinite.
Object and Division of the Divine Knowing
#25 God knows all that is merely possible by the knowledge of simple intelligence.
#26 God knows all real things in the past, the present and the future.
#27 By the knowledge of vision God also foresees the future free acts of the rational creatures with infallible certainty.
The Perfection of the Divine Willing
#28 God’s Divine Will is Infinite.
The Physical Properties of the Divine Will
#29 God loves Himself of necessity, but loves and wills the creation of extra-Divine things, on the other hand, with freedom.
#30 God is almighty.
#31 God is the Lord of the heavens and of the earth.
The Moral Attributes of the Divine Will
#32 God is infinitely just.
#33 God is infinitely merciful.
The Dogma of the Trinity
The Doctrinal Decisions of the Church
#34 In God there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Each of the Three Persons possesses the one (numerical) Divine Essence.
The Internal Divine Processions in General
#35 In God there are two Internal Divine Processions.
#36 The Divine Persons, not the Divine Nature, are the subject of the Internal Divine processions (in the active and in the passive sense).
The Procession of the Son from the Father by Way of Generation
#37 The Second Divine Person proceeds from the First Divine Person by Generation, and therefore is related to Him as Son to a Father.
The Procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son by way of Spiration
#38 The Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and from the Son as from a Single Principle through a Single Spiration.
#39 The Holy Ghost does not proceed through generation but through spiration.
The Divine Relations
#40 The Relations in God are really identical with the Divine Nature.
The Divine Persons
#41 In God all is one except for the opposition of relations.
The Trinitarian Perichoresis (Circumincession)
#42 The Three Divine Persons are in One Another.
The Unity of the Divine Operation ad extra
#43 All the ad extra Activities of God are common to the Three Persons.
