Note 740 — Chapter II · THE ACCESSORY DUTIES OF THE CONFESSOR

Necessitate medii the Christian must believe those truths without the knowledge and express belief of which, justification and, in consequence, the attainment of everlasting salvation, is never possible for any one having the use of reason. Certainly necessary is the explicit belief: (1) in one God; (2) the Rewarder of good and the Avenger of evil. Although it is quite probable that fides explicita is necessary in these truths only, it is, nevertheless, not certain that fides explicita is not also necessary (3) in the mystery of the Blessed Trinity and (4) in the mystery of the Incarnation and the Redemption.