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Protestantism and Catholicity Compared

by Jaime Balmes

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  1. 1Author’s Preface
  2. 2Preface to the American Edition
  3. 3Notice of the Author
  4. 4Table of Contents
  5. 5Table of Notes
  6. 6Chapter I — Name and Nature of Protestantism
  7. 7Chapter II — Causes of Protestantism
  8. 8Chapter III — Extraordinary Phenomenon in the Catholic Church
  9. 9Chapter IV — Protestantism and the Mind
  10. 10Chapter V — Instinct of Faith in the Sciences
  11. 11Chapter VI — Differences in the Religious Wants of Nations — Mathem…
  12. 12Chapter VII — Indifference and Fanaticism
  13. 13Chapter VIII — Fanaticism — Its Definition — Fanaticism in the Cath…
  14. 14Chapter IX — Infidelity and Indifference in Europe, the Fruits of P…
  15. 15Chapter X — Causes of the Continuance of Protestantism
  16. 16Chapter XI — The Positive Doctrines of Protestantism Repugnant to t…
  17. 17Chapter XII — The Effects Which the Introduction of Protestantism I…
  18. 18Chapter XIII — Catholicity and Protestantism in Relation to Social…
  19. 19Chapter XIV — Did There Exist at the Epoch When Christianity Appear…
  20. 20Chapter XV — Difficulties Which Christianity Had to Overcome in the…
  21. 21Chapter XVI — Ideas and Manners of Antiquity With Respect to Slaver…
  22. 22Chapter XVII — Means Employed by the Church to Enfranchise Slaves
  23. 23Chapter XVIII — Continuation of the Same Subject
  24. 24Chapter XIX — Doctrines of S. Augustine and S. Thomas Aquinas on th…
  25. 25Chapter XX — Contrast Between Two Orders of Civilization
  26. 26Chapter XXI — Of the Individual — Of the Feeling of Individual Inde…
  27. 27Chapter XXII — How the Individual Was Absorbed by Ancient Society
  28. 28Chapter XXIII — The Progress of Individuality Under the Influence o…
  29. 29Chapter XXIV — Of the Family — Monogamy — Indissolubility of the Co…
  30. 30Chapter XXV — Of the Passion of Love
  31. 31Chapter XXVI — Virginity in Its Social Aspect
  32. 32Chapter XXVII — Of Chivalry and Barbarian Manners, in Their Influen…
  33. 33Chapter XXVIII — Of the Public Conscience in General
  34. 34Chapter XXIX — Of the Principle of Public Conscience According to M…
  35. 35Chapter XXX — On the Different Influence of Protestantism and Catho…
  36. 36Chapter XXXI — On Gentleness of Manners in General
  37. 37Chapter XXXII — The Improvement of Manners by the Action of the Church
  38. 38Chapter XXXIII — On the Development of Public Beneficence in Europe
  39. 39Chapter XXXIV — On Toleration in Religious Matters
  40. 40Chapter XXXV — On the Right of Coercion in General
  41. 41Chapter XXXVI — On the Inquisition in Spain
  42. 42Chapter XXXVII — Second Epoch of the Inquisition in Spain
  43. 43Chapter XXXVIII — Religious Institutions in Themselves
  44. 44Chapter XXXIX — Of Religious Institutions in History — The First So…
  45. 45Chapter XL — On Religious Institutions in the East
  46. 46Chapter XLI — Of Religious Institutions in the History of the West
  47. 47Chapter XLII — Of Religious Institutions During the Second Half of…
  48. 48Chapter XLIII — Continuation of the Same Subject — Europe in the Th…
  49. 49Chapter XLIV — The Religious Orders for the Redemption of Captives
  50. 50Chapter XLV — The Universal Progress of Civilization Impeded by Pro…
  51. 51Chapter XLVI — The Jesuits
  52. 52Chapter XLVII — The Future of Religious Institutions — Their Presen…
  53. 53Chapter XLVIII — Religion and Liberty
  54. 54Chapter XLIX — The Origin of Society, According to Catholic Divines
  55. 55Chapter L — On the Right Divine, According to the Catholic Doctors
  56. 56Chapter LI — Transmission of Power, According to the Catholic Doctors
  57. 57Chapter LII — Freedom of Speech Under the Spanish Monarchy
  58. 58Chapter LIII — On the Faculties of the Civil Power
  59. 59Chapter LIV — On Resistance to the Civil Power
  60. 60Chapter LV — On Resistance to de Facto Governments
  61. 61Chapter LVI — How the Civil Power May Be Lawfully Resisted
  62. 62Chapter LVII — Political Society in the Sixteenth Century
  63. 63Chapter LVIII — Monarchy in the Sixteenth Century
  64. 64Chapter LIX — The Aristocracy of the Sixteenth Century
  65. 65Chapter LX — On Democracy
  66. 66Chapter LXI — On the Value of the Different Political Forms — Chara…
  67. 67Chapter LXII — The Development of Monarchy in Europe
  68. 68Chapter LXIII — Two Kinds of Democracy
  69. 69Chapter LXIV — Struggle Between the Three Social Elements
  70. 70Chapter LXV — Political Doctrines Before the Appearance of Protesta…
  71. 71Chapter LXVI — Political Doctrines in Spain
  72. 72Chapter LXVII — Political Liberty and Religious Intolerance
  73. 73Chapter LXVIII — Unity in Faith Not Adverse to Political Liberty
  74. 74Chapter LXIX — Of Intellectual Development Under the Influence of C…
  75. 75Chapter LXX — Historical Analysis of Intellectual Development
  76. 76Chapter LXXI — Religion and the Human Mind in Europe
  77. 77Chapter LXXII — On the Progress of the Human Mind From the Eleventh…
  78. 78Chapter LXXIII — Summary — Declaration of the Author
  79. 79Appendix

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