§756"Often, too, the Church is called the building of God. the Lord compared himself to the stone which the builders rejected, but which was made into the comer-stone. On this foundation the Church is built by the apostles and from it the Church receives solidity and unity. This edifice has many names to describe it: the house of God in which his family dwells; the household of God…

Chapter 21.—Of Those Who Assert that All Catholics Who Continue in the Faith Even Though by the Depravity of Their Lives They Have Merited Hell Fire, Shall Be Saved on Account of the “Foundation” Of Their Faith. There are some, too, who found upon the expression of Scripture, “He that endureth to the end shall be saved,”15351535 Matt. xxiv. 13. and who promise salvation only to…

§38Hence the Catholic commentator, in order to comply with the present needs of biblical studies, in explaining the Sacred Scripture and in demonstrating and proving its immunity from all error, should also make a prudent use of this means, determine, that is, to what extent the manner of expression or the literary mode adopted by the sacred writer may lead to a correct and genuin…

§57To this Our most merciful Redeemer we must therefore bring all back by every means in our power; for He is the divine consoler of the afflicted; He it is Who teaches all, whether they be invested with public authority or are bound in duty to obey and submit, true honesty, absolute justice and generous charity; it is He in fine, and He alone, Who can be the firm foundation and s…

She showed me a great tower being built upon the waters, with shining square stones. And the tower was built upon that great rock and that ancient gate. It was being built by six young men. And many thousands of other men were bringing stones, some from the depth of the sea, some from the land. Some were polished, some unpolished.

He recalls the beginning of his youth, i.e. the thirty-first year of his age, in which very grave errors as to the nature of God and the origin of evil being distinguished, and the Sacred Books more accurately known, he at length arrives at a clear knowledge of God, not yet rightly apprehending Jesus Christ. Chapter 1. He Regarded Not God Indeed Under the Form of a Human Body, …

What is faith? In what power of the soul does it reside? Is its form charity? Are living formata faith and lifeless informis faith one identically? Is faith a virtue? Is it one virtue? Its relation to the other virtues Its certitude as compared with the certitude of the intellectual virtues Article 1. Whether this is a fitting definition of faith: "Faith is the substance of thi…

1. A certain one of those of moderate talent, who had composed a discourse, stepped forward in the presence of many pastors who were assembled as if for a church gathering, and while they attended quietly and decently, he addressed himself as follows to one who was in all things a most excellent bishop and beloved of God, through whose zeal the temple in Tyre, which was the mos…

Luther denies that the Pope is the head of all Christendom by divine right. The Church is built on Christ alone, not on Peter or his successors. The papal claim to universal jurisdiction finds no warrant in Scripture and has led to tyranny over consciences. Luther will not acknowledge the Pope as head of the Church, for this would subject Christ's Gospel to human authority.

Tertullian maintains that the apostles first preached the gospel, then founded churches which they planted in every city. From these mother churches, other churches borrowed the shoot of faith and the seeds of doctrine. The church is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Himself the cornerstone.

All that we have hitherto said of Christ leads to this one result: that condemned, dead, and lost in ourselves, we must in Him seek righteousness, deliverance, life, and salvation. Such is the foundation of that faith which the apostle taught: 'Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.' See 1 Cor. iii. 11. And He was given us by the bounty of God…