The Stromata: Book II
On faith, fear, repentance, and hope, and on how faith and knowledge belong together.
Chapter I.—Introductory.Chapter II.—The Knowledge of God Can Be Attained Only Through Faith.Chapter III.—Faith Not a Product of Nature.Chapter IV.—Faith the Foundation of All Knowledge.Chapter V.—He Proves by Several Examples that the Greeks Drew from the Sacred Writers.Chapter VI.—The Excellence and Utility of Faith.Chapter VII.—The Utility of Fear. Objections Answered.Chapter VIII.—The Vagaries of Basilides and Valentinus as to Fear Being the Cause of Things.Chapter IX.—The Connection of the Christian Virtues.Chapter X.—To What the Philosopher Applies Himself.Chapter XI.—The Knowledge Which Comes Through Faith the Surest of All.Chapter XII.—Twofold Faith.Chapter XIII.—On First and Second Repentance.Chapter XIV.—How a Thing May Be Involuntary.Chapter XV.—On the Different Kinds of Voluntary Actions, and the Sins Thence Proceeding.Chapter XVI.—How We are to Explain the Passages of Scripture Which Ascribe to God Human Affections.Chapter XVII.—On the Various Kinds of Knowledge.Chapter XVIII.—The Mosaic Law the Fountain of All Ethics, and the Source from Which the Greeks Drew Theirs.Chapter XIX.—The True Gnostic is an Imitator of God, Especially in Beneficence.Chapter XX.—The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self-Restraint.Chapter XXI.—Opinions of Various Philosophers on the Chief Good.Chapter XXII.—Plato’s Opinion, that the Chief Good Consists in Assimilation to God, and Its Agreement with Scripture.Chapter XXIII.—On Marriage.