A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Augustin: The writings against the Manichćans, and against the Donatists

Christian literature Company, 1887

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How the pretensions of the Manichćans are to be refuted Two Manichćan falsehoods	41

He begins with arguments in compliance with the mistaken method of the Manichćans	42

Mans chief good is not the chief good of the body only but the chief good of the soul	43

The knowledge of God to be obtained from the Scripture The plan and principal mys teries of the divine scheme of redemption	44

Harmony of the Old and New Testament on the precepts of charity	45

What the church teaches about God The two gods of the Manichćans	46

We are united to God by love in subjection to Him	47

We are joined inseparably to God by Christ and His Spirit	48

Why the Manichćans prohibit the use of flesh	79

Description of the symbol of the hands among the Manichćans	83

Of the symbol of the breast and of the shameful mysteries of the Manichćans	86

Crimes of the Manichćans	87

Disgraceful conduct discovered at Rome	89

ON TWO SOULS AGAINST THE MANICHEANS	91

ACTS OR DISPUTATION AGAINST FORTUNATUS THE MANICHEAN	109

AGAINST THE EPISTLE OF MANICHĆUS CALLED FUNDAMENTAL	129

Harmony of the Old and New Testaments	49

Appeal to the Manichćans calling on them to repent	50

Description of the duties of temperance according to the sacred Scriptures	51

We are required to despise all sensible things and to leve God alone	52

Fortitude comes from the love of God	53

Of justice and prudence	54

Love of ourselves and of our neighbor	55

On doing good to the soul of our neighbor Two parts of discipline restraint and in struction Through good conduct we arrive at the knowledge of th...	56

Of the authority of the Scriptures	57

The Church apostrophized as teacher of all wisdom Doctrine of the Catholic Church	58

The life of the Anachoretes and Cœnobites set against the continence of the Manichćans	59

Praise of the clergy	60

The Church is not to be blamed for the conduct of bad Christians worshippers of tombs and pictures	61

Marriage and property allowed to be baptized by the apostles	62

The supreme good is that which is possessed of supreme existence	69

If evil is defined as that which is hurtful this implies another refutation of the Manichćans	70

If evil is defined to be corruption this completely refutes the Manichćan heresy	71

Evil is not a substance but a disagreement hostile to substance	72

The Manichćan fictions about things good and evil are not consistent with themselves	73

Three moral symbols devised by the Manichćans for no good	74

The value of the symbol of the mouth among the Manichćans who are found guilty of blaspheming God	75

Manichćan subterfuge	76

Three good reasons for abstaining from certain kinds of food	77

The beauty of the straight line might be taken from the region of darkness without taking anything from its substance So evil neither takes from nor ...	142

The refutation of this absurdity	143

The same subject continued	144

Every nature as nature is good	145

Nature cannot be without some good The Manichćans dwell upon the evils	146

Evil alone is corruption Corruption is not nature but contrary to nature Corrup tion implies previous good	147

God alone perfectly good	148

In what sense evils are from God	149

Corruption is by Gods permission and comes from us	150

CONCERNING THE NATURE OF GOOD AGAINST THE MANICHĆANS	347

INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTIDONATIST WRITINGS 369404	369

ON BAPTISM AGAINST THE DONATISTS	411

In which Augustin proves that it is to no purpose that the Donatists bring forward the authority	425

BOOK III	436

BOOK IV	447

BOOK V	463

BOOK VI	479

BOOK VII	499

THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS	629

CONTENTS ON A TREATISE CONCERNING THE CORRECTION	633

INDEX TO THE ANTIDONATIST WRITINGS 667675	667

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Titel	A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Augustin: The writings against the Manichćans, and against the Donatists Band 4 von A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Mitwirkende	Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Saint John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff
Verlag	Christian literature Company, 1887
Original von	New York Public Library
Digitalisiert	18. Juni 2010

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