CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS

by dr Brocardus Meijer O Carm

J.J.Romen & Zonen, Roermond-Maaseik, 1946


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CONTENTS

1 Preface by the writer (plus account of the translation)

2 Introduction


FIRST PART: NATURAL PREPARATION
which makes man susceptible to the light of divine Revelation and the power of Jesus' grace of Redemption

Chapter one: God, Lord and Master of the cosmos
"For, after a bit of thinking, we can clearly know his invisible Essence, his eternal Power and his Godhead, from creation." (Romans I, 20)

3 Article one: God's Existence
4 Article two: God's Essence

Chapter two: The cycle of things
"For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever." (Romans XI, 36)

5 God's creation

Chapter three: The bounden duty
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind." (Luke X, 27)

6 Article one: the king of creation
7 Article two: the servant of God

Chapter four: The high vocation
"In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials." (I Peter I, 6)

8 Life after death


SECOND PART: SUPERNATURAL COMPLETION
with which God's Love comes to the help of man's weakness with the light of Revelation and the grace of Redemption

Chapter five: The good tidings
"And the life was revealed, and we have seen it; and we testify and declare to you the eternal Life which was with the Father and was revealed to us." (I John I, 2)

(Here I stopped translating this book. Just read the Gospels.)


Imprimatur:

Oss, 20 November 1946, Dr Cyprianus Verbeek O Carm censor ahd
Nijmegen, 22 November 1946, Dr Augustinus Nolte O Carm Prior Prov
Ruraemundae, 25 November 1946, Dr Jos Keulers, Libr Cens


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