| ### QUESTION 35 ### OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### After considering Christ's conception, we must treat of His nativity. First, as to the nativity itself; secondly, as to His manifestation after birth. #### Concerning the first there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether nativity regards the nature or the person? #### (2) Whether another, besides His eternal, birth should be attributed to Christ? #### (3) Whether the Blessed Virgin is His Mother in respect of His temporal birth? #### (4) Whether she ought to be called the Mother of God? #### (5) Whether Christ is the Son of God the Father and of the Virgin Mother in respect of two filiations? #### (6) Of the mode of the Nativity; #### (7) Of its place; #### (8) Of the time of the Nativity. ####  |