Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series, Volume IV St. Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans, and Against the DonatistsPhilip Schaff Cosimo, Inc., 2007 M05 1 - 684 pages "The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD marked the beginning of a new era in Christianity. For the first time, doctrines were organized into a single creed. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers did most of their writing during and after this important event in Church history. Unlike the previous era of Christian writing, the Nicene and Post-Nicene era is dominated by a few very important and prolific writers. In Volume IV of the 14-volume collected writings of the Nicenes and Post-Nicenes (first published between 1886 and 1889), readers will find Augustines writings defending the Catholic church against the Manichaeans and the Donatists. Manichaeanism was a religion developed in Persia by the prophet Mani. According to this religion, creation has two parts: darkness and light. Light is God and has ten attributes. Opposing this, and coeternal with it, is darkness and its five attributes. Saint Augustine was originally a Manichaean, so his defense of Christianity against this religion comes from a deep understanding of its nature. Donatists were a group of believers who refused to forgive those who had renounced their faith during a time of persecution, which caused a schism in Christianity. In opposing these men, Augustine attempted to mend the rift. Those with an interest in ancient religions will find Augustines writings on Manichaeanism one of the most important historical records of that religions practices." |
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... kind occurred between Mani and various Christian leaders in the East , and so Mani may at one time or other have given utterance to most of the statements that are attributed to him in this writing ; or these statements may have been ...
... kind occurred between Mani and various Christian leaders in the East , and so Mani may at one time or other have given utterance to most of the statements that are attributed to him in this writing ; or these statements may have been ...
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... kind of materiality to the members of the Kingdom of Light . The Kingdom of Light , on the contrary , he regarded as purely spiritual ; the Kingdom of Darkness as material . We have now the condi- tions for the creation of the present ...
... kind of materiality to the members of the Kingdom of Light . The Kingdom of Light , on the contrary , he regarded as purely spiritual ; the Kingdom of Darkness as material . We have now the condi- tions for the creation of the present ...
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... kind I had learned in the books of secular philosophy . But therein I was ordered to believe , and yet it corresponded not with those rules acknowledged by calculation and by our light , but was far different . " From this time ...
... kind I had learned in the books of secular philosophy . But therein I was ordered to believe , and yet it corresponded not with those rules acknowledged by calculation and by our light , but was far different . " From this time ...
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... kind . We have not given this letter and its reply , because the preference of Augustin has not been ratified by the judgment of his readers . The present volume gives a fair sample of Augustin's controversial powers . His nine years ...
... kind . We have not given this letter and its reply , because the preference of Augustin has not been ratified by the judgment of his readers . The present volume gives a fair sample of Augustin's controversial powers . His nine years ...
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... kind . If such a thing can be found , all uncertainty must be at an end , and we must pronounce this to be really and truly the chief good of man . we first ask and examine what man is . I am not now called upon to give a definition of ...
... kind . If such a thing can be found , all uncertainty must be at an end , and we must pronounce this to be really and truly the chief good of man . we first ask and examine what man is . I am not now called upon to give a definition of ...
Contents
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ON TWO SOULS AGAINST THE MANICHEANS | 91 |
ACTS OR DISPUTATION AGAINST FORTUNATUS THE MANICHEAN | 111 |
AGAINST THE EPISTLE OF MANICHEUS CALLED FUNDAMENTAL | 125 |
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 |
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 |
Tim ii 24 25 | 157 |
Written after the year 404 It is put in the Retractations immediately after the De Actis | 387 |
BOOK I | 401 |
CONCERNING THE NATURE OF GOOD AGAINST THE MANICHÆANS | 457 |
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 Manichæans dwell upon the evils | 146 |
THE ANTIDONATIST WRITINGS | 515 |
THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS | 629 |
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