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Chapters (16)
  1. The Spirit of Catholicism
  2. Forward
  3. Analytical Contents
  4. Chapter I: Introductory
  5. Chapter II: Christ in the Church
  6. Chapter III: The Church the Body of Christ
  7. Chapter IV: Through the Church to Christ
  8. Chapter V: The Foundation of the Church in the Light of the Teaching of Jesus
  9. Chapter VI: The Church and Peter
  10. Chapter VII: The Communion of Saints
  11. Chapter VIII: The Communion of Saints
  12. Chapter IX: The Catholicity of the Church
  13. Chapter X: The Church Necessary for Salvation
  14. Chapter XI: The Sacramental Action of the Church
  15. Chapter XII: The Educative Action of the Church
  16. Chapter XIII: Catholicism in Its Actuality

Certainly he regards the Bible as a sacred book, written by the hand of God and therefore unerring in all its parts. And certainly he accepts with joy and gratitude the luminous portrait of Jesus that is drawn by the Gospels. “Without the Scripture,” says Mohler, “the true form of the sayings of Jesus would have been withheld from us. We should not have known how the God-man spoke, and I think I should not be able to live any more, if I ceased to hear Him speak.[1] Yet the Catholic does not derive his faith in Jesus from the Scriptures. For he had this faith already, before the first Epistle and before the first Gospel was written. His faith dates back to St. Peter’s confession at Caesarea Philippi: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”