THE LIFE IN CHRIST - The First Book - Nicholas Cabasilas (14th Century Byzantium)

THE FIRST BOOK: How the life in Christ is constituted by means of the divine Mysteries of Baptism, Chrismation, and Holy Communion

1. How the life in Christ begins in this life
2. The life in Christ consists of union with Him
3. The intimacy of our union with Christ
4. In this union Christ is all-sufficient
5. We attain to this union by newness of life
6. Christ bestows this new life through His Mysteries
7. Christ's saving work as the foundation of the new life
8. How the righteous under the Old Covenant looked forward to their deliverance by Christ
9. How Christ opens to us the gates of life
10. The ransom which Christ has paid for us
11. The Mysteries as the means by which we appropriate Christ's saving work

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