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The First Vatican Council
English
[Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, Chapter 1: Of God, the Creator of all things]
The Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church believes and confesses that there is one true and living God, Creator and Lord of heaven and earth, Almighty, Eternal, Immense, Incomprehensible, Infinite in intelligence, in will and in all perfection, who, as being one sole, absolutely simple and immutable spiritual substance, is to be declared as really and essentially distinct from the world, of supreme beatitude in and from Himself, and ineffably exalted above all things which exist, or are conceivable, except Himself.
This one only true God, of his own goodness and almighty power, not for the increase or acquirement of His own happiness, but to manifest His perfection by the blessings which He bestows on creatures, and with the absolute freedom of Counsel, created out of nothing, from the very first beginning of time, both the spiritual and the corporeal creature, to wit the angelical and the mundane, and afterwards, the human creature, as partaking, in a sense, of both, consisting of spirit and of body.
God protects and governs by his Providence all things which he hath made, "reaching from end to end and mightily ordering all things sweetly (Wisdom 7:1). For "all things are bare and open to His eyes" (Hebrews 4:13), even those that are yet to be by the free action of creatures. Manning, p 209.
Latin
[Constitutio Dogmatica de Fide Catholica, Caput 1: De Deo rerum omnium Creatore]
Sancta Catholica, Apostolica Romana Ecclesia credit et confitetur, unum esse Deum verum et vivum, Creatorem ac Dominum coeli et terrae, omnipotentem, aeternum, immensum, incomprehensibilem, intellectu ac voluntate omnique perfectione infinitum; qui cum sit una singularis, simplex omnino et incommutabilis substantia spiritualis, predicandus est re et essentia a mundo distinctus, in se et ex se beatissimus, et super omnia, quae praeter ipsum sunt et concipi possunt, ineffabiliter excelsus.
Hic solus verus Deus bonitate sua et omnipotenti virtute non ad augendam suam beatitudinem, nec ad acquirendam, sed ad manifestandam perfectionem suam per bona, quae creaturis impertitur, liberrimo consilio simul ab initio temporis utramque de nihilo condidit creaturam, spiritualem et corporalem, angelicam videlicet et mundanam, ac deinde humanam quasi communem ex spiritu et corpore constitutam. [Concilium Lateranum Iv, cap/ 1. De Fide Catholica]
Universa vero, quae condidit, Deus providentia sua tuetur atque gubernat, attingens a fine usque ad finem fortiter, et dsponens omnia suaviter. Omnia enim nuda et aperta sunt oculis eius, ea etiam, quae libera creaturarum actione futura sunt. Manning, p 195-6.
Note: On this site (eventually) we shall use the word god with a capital letter God, to mean the Roman Catholic God defined above and its derivatives. Lower case god will be reserved for the more general meaning applied to the word in this site: god = the whole
Books
| Manning, Henry Edward, The Vatican Council and its Definitions: A Pastoral Letter to the Clergy, Excelsior Catholic Publishing House 1905 back |
| Hebrews, and Alexander Jones (editor), in The Jerusalem Bible, Darton Longman and Todd 1966 'Most critics agree that Paul could not have been the author of [Hebrews] in the same sense as he was the author of the other letters, but he is felt to have had sufficient influence, direct or (more likely) indirect, top warrant its inclusion from early times in the corpus Paulinum. No sort of agreement exists on who actually wrote the letter. Amazon back |
| Wisdom, and Alexander Jones (editor), in The Jerusalem Bible, Darton Longman and Todd 1966 'The book entitled "The Book of Wisdom" by the Vulgate is known in the Greek manuscripts as "The Wisdom of Solomon". Its first section defines the function of wisdom in man's destiny and compares the fate of the good amd the bad during life and after, ch. 1-5. The second section, 6-9, treats of the origin and nature of wisdom and how it is to be won. The last section, ch. 10-19, celebrates the part played by Wisdom and by God in the history of the chosen people and ... in one single but critical event in that history, the deliverance from Egypt. This third section also contains a long and exhaustive digression on idolatory, ch. 13-15.' p 1004. Amazon back |
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