Theologico-Political Treatise 1862/Table of Contents

by Benedictus de Spinoza

	TABLE OF CONTENTS.
	Introduction — The Editor to the Reader
	Scope and Purpose of this Work — Author's Preface
CHAP.
I.	Of Prophecy
II.	Of the Prophet
III.	Of the Election of the Hebrew nation. Was the gift of Prophecy peculiar to the Jews?
IV.	Of the Divine Law
V.	Of Religious Rites and Ceremonies, and Belief in Historical Narratives. Why Rites and Ceremonies are required
VI.	Of Miracles
VII.	Of the Interpretation of Scripture
VIII.	Of the Pentateuch, and the Books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, and Kings, and their Author or Authors. Of Ezra as their Compiler
IX.	Of the same Books of the Old Testament. Did Ezra put the finishing hand to his work? Are the Marginal Additions to the Hebrew Codices variorum readings of the text?
X.	Of the remaining Books of the Old Testament
XI.	Did the Apostles write in the character of Prophets, or merely as Teachers? Of the office of the Apostles
XII.	Of the True Covenant of the Divine Law. Of the reason why the Scriptures are called Sacred, and are spoken of as the Word of God. The Hebrew Scriptures in so far as the Word of God is concerned have come down to us uncorrupted
XIII.	Scripture teaches nothing that is not extremely simple, requires nothing but obedience from man, and imparts nothing of the Divine Nature, that men, by following a certain rule of life, may not imitate
XIV.	Of Faith, and the Distinction of Faith from Philosophy
XV.	Theology does not assist Reason, nor does Reason aid Theology. The grounds of our belief in the authority of the Sacred Scriptures
XVI.	The Foundations of a Commonwealth, or Policied State. Of the Natural and Civil Rights of Individuals, and of the Rights of Rulers
XVII.	No one can cede the whole of his rights to the ruling power of a State. Of the Jewish Republic, as it was during the Life of Moses and after his Death, before the election of Kings. Of the excellence of this Republic and the causes of its decline
XVIII.	Certain political Axioms derived from the Constitution of the Hebrew Republic and the History of the Jewish People
XIX.	All Authority in religious matters rests with the Civil Power. Religious Worship must be in harmony with the Institutions of the State, if Peace is to be preserved and God to be truly obeyed
XX.	In a Free State every one is at liberty to think as he pleases and to say what he thinks
	Appendix — Letter to Isaac Orobio, M.D.