Book 4, Life in Christ: Chapter 1, Eight Articles on Principles of the Catholic Faith Summary and Analysis

Here, the Catholic Church sets forth a number of Catholic Principles. The Church begins by assuring the target audience—mainly Catholic bishops—that the Christian life is for those who have been baptized and are now beginning their "new life" in which they follow the Risen Lord.

Options for the earthly life are divided into two distinct yet simple categories: life and salvation or destruction. The path of salvation leads to the destruction of sin during the life, and ultimately to the complete destruction of death itself.

The first article here is about the the image of God. It is actually about how the image of God appears in mankind. Free will and sentience, or...