What Are the First Principles? is presented as a chaptered book.

Chapters

  1. 1. Preface
  2. 2. Introduction
  3. 3. The Two Extremes, and Why They Must Be Rejected
  4. 4. A Simple, but Necessary, Point
  5. 5. A Biblical “Summary of Faith”
  6. 6. The Apostles’ “First Principles” Lectures
  7. 7. The “Sayings of Faith” in the Pastoral Letters
  8. 8. The “Gospel” Test
  9. 9. The Apostles’ Creed
  10. 10. An Early Christadelphian Statement of Faith
  11. 11. The Apostolic Statement of Faith
  12. 12. The Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith
  13. 13. Comparison of the Apostolic Statement with the BASF
  14. 14. More Detailed Evaluation
  15. 15. General Weaknesses of the BASF
  16. 16. The Commandments of Christ
  17. 17. An Alternative
  18. Appendix: The Apostolic Statement of Faith