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Contents
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Leibniz – Theology and Practice
About the Texts and Translations
Recommended Further Reading
1 The Catholic Demonstrations
1. Sketch of Catholic Demonstrations (1668–9 (?))
2. On transubstantiation (1668–9 (?))
3. On the demonstration of the possibility of the mysteries of the Eucharist (autumn 1671 (?))
4. A proposal to revive the Catholic Demonstrations (late 1679 (?))
2 The Existence and Nature of God
(A) The Existence of God
1. A proof of the existence of God from his essence (January 1678)
2. There is only a single God (1685–6 (?))
3. If a necessary being is possible, it follows that it exists (March 1689–March 1690 (?))
4. God is the sufficient reason for the world (29 December 1692/8 January 1693)
5. On Reverend Father Lamy’s demonstration of the existence of God (late June 1701)
(B) The Nature of God
1. God is not the soul of the world (summer 1683–winter 1685/6 (?))
2. Rationale of the Catholic faith (mid-1680s (?))
3. On the true Mystical Theology (mid-1690s (?))
4. Review of Lüttichau’s Pansophia (4 September 1696)
5. Ancient and modern understandings of God (30 April 1709)
3 Reason and Faith
1. What needs to be done to defend the Christian religion (10/20 February 1670)
2. On the Treatise of Religion against the Atheists (1677–9 (?))
3. Dialogue between a theologian and a misosophist (2nd half 1678–1st half 1679 (?))
4. Specimen of Catholic Demonstrations, or, Apology for the faith through reason (July 1683–March 1686 (?))
5. An outline of a natural theology (29 September/9 October 1697)
6. The use of reason in theology (6 October 1706)
7. On the Greeks as the founders of a sacred philosophy (1 July 1714)
4 Ethics and the Love of God
1. Letter concerning Steno and Spinoza (March 1677 (?))
2. Dialogue between Theophile and Polidore (summer–autumn 1679 (?))
3. Aphorisms concerning happiness, wisdom, charity and justice (summer–winter 1678/9 (?))
4. Dialogue between Poliander and Theophile (mid-1679 (?))
5. Critical remarks on William Penn and the Quakers (March 1696)
6. The true theology (10/20 December 1696)
7. On the disinterested love of God (9/19 (?) August 1697)
8. On the public good (2/12 February 1700)
9. The essence of piety (18 March 1705)
5 The Bible
1. Short commentary on the judge of controversies, or, The balance of reason and the textual norm (1669–71 (?))
2. Brief explanation of Revelation (January 1677)
3. On the Revelation of St John (30 June/10 July 1691)
4. The story of Bileam (early September 1706)
6 Miracles and Mysteries
1. The devil cannot prophesize (3 March 1680)
2. On the threefold God (1680–4 (?))
3. On the person of Christ (1680–4 (?))
4. On the Trinity (autumn 1685 (?))
5. Some thoughts on the Trinity, occasioned by the reading of Stephen Nye’s Considerations on the Explications of the Doctrine of the Trinity (1693–end 1695)
6. On miracles and mysteries (August–September (?) 1697)
7. Hasty comments on the book Christianity not Mysterious, written 8 August 1701
7 The Churches and their Doctrines
1. On the host (October 1677)
2. On Scripture, the Church and the Trinity (1680–4 (?))
3. On God and the Church (autumn 1685–spring 1686 (?))
4. Suppositions (autumn 1685–spring 1686 (?))
5. On the certainty of salvation (17/27 March 1695)
6. On the authority of the Pope (1705)
7. Exposition of the doctrines and practices authorized by the Roman Church (1705 (?))
8 Grace and Predestination
1 On freedom, fate and God’s grace (spring–winter 1686/7 (?))
9 Sin, Evil and Theodicy
1. The author of sin (1673 (?))
2. On the goodness of God’s works (autumn 1684 (?))
3. Genuine dialogue (25 January 1695)
4. Can the bad outcomes of wicked actions be ascribed to wickedness? (after 1695 (?))
5. On God and man (December 1705 (?))
6. On the composition of a stirring theological poem, ‘Uranius’ (3 September 1711)
10 The Afterlife
(A) Resurrection and Purgatory
1. On the resurrection of bodies (21 May 1671)
2. On purgatory (January 1677)
3. St Augustine’s opinion on purgatory (6/16 December 1694)
4. On the time of purification (not later than spring 1698)
5. Whether purgatory is an article of faith (4/14 January and 2/12 February 1700)
6. On the valley of Jehoshaphat (1715 (?))
(B) Salvation and Damnation
1. On the damnation of the innocent (4/14 September 1690)
2. On the imagination of the future life (not later than spring 1698)
3. On the salvation of pagans (not later than spring 1698)
4. Blessedness and punishment (21 February 1705)
5. Preface to Ernst Soner’s book on eternal punishment (1708)
11 Non-Christian Religions
1. On a small book entitled Seder Olam (1694)
2. On the Jesuit mission in China (18 January 1700)
3. On an intellectual exchange with the Chinese (18 August 1705)
4. On the Mohammedans and Socinians (2 December 1706)
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