St. Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists
AUGUSTINE: THE WRITINGS AGAINST THE MANICHAEANS AND AGAINST THE DONATISTS.
NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHURCH FATHERS: SERIES 1: VOLUME IV: ST. AUGUSTIN: THE WRITINGS AGAINST THE MANICHAEANS AND AGAINST THE DONATISTS.
A SELECT LIBRARY OF THE NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
I. THE ANTI-MANICHAEAN WRITINGS
On The Morals Of The Catholic Church
On The Morals Of The Manichaeans
On Two Souls, Against The Manichaeans
Acts Or Disputation Against Fortunatus The Manichaean
Against The Epistle Of Manichaeus, Called Fundamental
Reply To Faustus The Manichaean
Concerning The Nature Of Good, Against The Manichaeans
II. THE ANTI-DONATIST WRITINGS
On Baptism, Against the Donatists
Answer To The Letters of Petilian, The Donatist
The Correction Of The Donatists
I. THE ANTI-MANICHAEAN WRITINGS
On The Morals Of The Catholic Church
Chapter 1
How the Pretensions of the Manichaeans are to Be Refuted. Two Manichaean Falsehoods
Chapter 2
He Begins with Arguments, in Compliance with the Mistaken Method of the Manichaeans
Chapter 3
Happiness is in the Enjoyment of Man’s Chief Good. Two Conditions of the Chief Good: 1st, Nothing is Better Than It; 2d, It Cannot Be Lost Against the Will
Chapter 4
Man—What?
Chapter 5
Man’s Chief Good is Not the Chief Good of the Body Only, But the Chief Good of the Soul
Chapter 6
Virtue Gives Perfection to the Soul; The Soul Obtains Virtue by Following God; Following God is the Happy Life
Chapter 7
The Knowledge of God to Be Obtained from the Scripture. The Plan and Principal Mysteries of the Divine Scheme of Redemption
Chapter 8
God is the Chief Good, Whom We are to Seek After with Supreme Affection
Chapter 9
Harmony of the Old and New Testament on the Precepts of Charity
Chapter 10
What the Church Teaches About God. The Two Gods of the Manichaeans
Chapter 11
God is the One Object of Love; Therefore He is Man’s Chief Good. Nothing is Better Than God. God Cannot Be Lost Against Our Will
Chapter 12
We are United to God by Love, in Subjection to Him
Chapter 13
We are Joined Inseparably to God by Christ and His Spirit
Chapter 14
We Cleave to the Trinity, Our Chief Good, by Love
Chapter 15
The Christian Definition of the Four Virtues
Chapter 16
Harmony of the Old and New Testaments
Chapter 17
Appeal to the Manichaeans, Calling on Them to Repent
Chapter 18
Only in the Catholic Church is Perfect Truth Established on the Harmony of Both Testaments
Chapter 19
Description of the Duties of Temperance, According to the Sacred Scriptures
Chapter 20
We are Required to Despise All Sensible Things, and to Love God Alone
Chapter 21
Popular Renown and Inquisitiveness are Condemned in the Sacred Scriptures
Chapter 22
Fortitude Comes from the Love of God
Chapter 23
Scripture Precepts and Examples of Fortitude
Chapter 24
Of Justice and Prudence
Chapter 25
Four Moral Duties Regarding the Love of God, of Which Love the Reward is Eternal Life and the Knowledge of the Truth
Chapter 26
Love of Ourselves and of Our Neighbor
Chapter 27
On Doing Good to the Body of Our Neighbor
Chapter 28
On Doing Good to the Soul of Our Neighbor. Two Parts of Discipline, Restraint and Instruction. Through Good Conduct We Arrive at the Knowledge of the Truth
Chapter 29
Of the Authority of the Scriptures
Chapter 30
The Church Apostrophised as Teacher of All Wisdom. Doctrine of the Catholic Church
Chapter 31
The Life of the Anachoretes and Coenobites Set Against the Continence of the Manichaeans
Chapter 32
Praise of the Clergy
Chapter 33
Another Kind of Men Living Together in Cities. Fasts of Three Days
Chapter 34
The Church is Not to Be Blamed for the Conduct of Bad Christians, Worshippers of Tombs and Pictures
Chapter 35
Marriage and Property Allowed to the Baptized by the Apostles
On The Morals Of The Manichaeans
On the Morals of the Manichaeans
Chapter 1
The Supreme Good is that Which is Possessed of Supreme Existence
Chapter 2
What Evil is. That Evil is that Which is Against Nature. In Allowing This, the Manichaeans Refute Themselves
Chapter 3
If Evil is Defined as that Which is Hurtful, This Implies Another Refutation of the Manichaeans
Chapter 4
The Difference Between What is Good in Itself and What is Good by Participation
Chapter 5
If Evil is Defined to Be Corruption, This Completely Refutes the Manichaean Heresy
Chapter 6
What Corruption Affects and What It is
Chapter 7
The Goodness of God Prevents Corruption from Bringing Anything to Non-Existence. The Difference Between Creating and Forming
Chapter 8
Evil is Not a Substance, But a Disagreement Hostile to Substance
Chapter 9
The Manichaean Fictions About Things Good and Evil are Not Consistent with Themselves
Chapter 10
Three Moral Symbols Devised by the Manichaeans for No Good
Chapter 11
The Value of the Symbol of the Mouth Among the Manichaeans, Who are Found Guilty of Blaspheming God
Chapter 12
Manichaean Subterfuge
Chapter 13
Actions to Be Judged of from Their Motive, Not from Externals. Manichaean Abstinence to Be Tried by This Principle
Chapter 14
Three Good Reasons for Abstaining from Certain Kinds of Food
Chapter 15
Why the Manichaeans Prohibit the Use of Flesh
Chapter 16
Disclosure of the Monstrous Tenets of the Manichaeans
Chapter 17
Description of the Symbol of the Hands Among the Manichaeans
Chapter 18
Of the Symbol of the Breast, and of the Shameful Mysteries of the Manichaeans
Chapter 19
Crimes of the Manichaeans
Chapter 20
Disgraceful Conduct Discovered at Rome
On Two Souls, Against The Manichaeans
Concerning Two Souls, Against the Manichaeans
Chapter 1
By What Course of Reasoning the Error of the Manichaeans Concerning Two Souls, One of Which is Not from God, is Refuted. Every Soul, Inasmuch as It is a Certain Life, Can Have Its Existence Only from God the Source of Life
Chapter 2
If the Light that is Perceived by Sense Has God for Its Author, as the Manichaeans Acknowledge, Much More The Soul Which is Perceived by Intellect Alone
Chapter 3
How It is Proved that Every Body Also is from God. That the Soul Which is Called Evil by the Manichaeans is Better Than Light
Chapter 4
Even the Soul of a Fly is More Excellent Than the Light
Chapter 5
How Vicious Souls, However Worthy of Condemnation They May Be, Excel the Light Which is Praiseworthy in Its Kind
Chapter 6
Whether Even Vices Themselves as Objects of Intellectual Apprehension are to Be Preferred to Light as an Object of Sense Perception, and are to Be Attributed to God as Their Author. Vice of the Mind and Certain Defects are Not Rightly to Be Counted Among Intelligible Things. Defects Themselves Even If They Should Be Counted Among Intelligible Things Should Never Be Put Before Sensible Things. If Light is Visible by God, Much More is the Soul, Even If Vicious, Which in So Far as It Lives is an Intelligible Thing. Passages of Scripture are Adduced by the Manichaeans to the Contrary
Chapter 7
How Evil Men are of God, and Not of God
Chapter 8
The Manichaeans Inquire Whence is Evil and by This Question Think They Have Triumphed. Let Them First Know, Which is Most Easy to Do, that Nothing Can Live Without God. Consummate Evil Cannot Be Known Except by the Knowledge of Consummate Good, Which is God
Chapter 9
Augustin Deceived by Familiarity with the Manichaeans, and by the Succession of Victories Over Ignorant Christians Reported by Them. The Manichaeans are Likewise Easily Refuted from the Knowledge of Sin and the Will
Chapter 10
Sin is Only from the Will. His Own Life and Will Best Known to Each Individual. What Will is
Chapter 11
What Sin is
Chapter 12
From the Definitions Given of Sin and Will, He Overthrows the Entire Heresy of the Manichaeans. Likewise from the Just Condemnation of Evil Souls It Follows that They are Evil Not by Nature But by Will. That Souls are Good By Nature, to Which the Pardon of Sins is Granted
Chapter 13
From Deliberation on the Evil and on the Good Part It Results that Two Classes of Souls are Not to Be Held to. A Class of Souls Enticing to Shameful Deeds Having Been Conceded, It Does Not Follow that These are Evil by Nature, that the Others are Supreme Good
Chapter 14
Again It is Shown from the Utility of Repenting that Souls are Not by Nature Evil. So Sure a Demonstration is Not Contradicted Except from the Habit of Erring
Chapter 15
He Prays for His Friends Whom He Has Had as Associates in Error
Acts Or Disputation Against Fortunatus The Manichaean
Disputation of the First Day
Disputation of the Second Day
Against The Epistle Of Manichaeus, Called Fundamental
Chapter 1
To Heal Heretics is Better Than to Destroy Them
Chapter 2
Why the Manichaeans Should Be More Gently Dealt with
Chapter 3
Augustin Once a Manichaean
Chapter 4
Proofs of the Catholic Faith
Chapter 5
Against the Title of the Epistle of Manichaeus
Chapter 6
Why Manichaeus Called Himself an Apostle of Christ
Chapter 7
In What Sense the Followers of Manichaeus Believe Him to Be the Holy Spirit
Chapter 8
The Festival of the Birth-Day of Manichaeus
Chapter 9
When the Holy Spirit Was Sent
Chapter 10
The Holy Spirit Twice Given
Chapter 11
Manichaeus Promises Truth, But Does Not Make Good His Word
Chapter 12
The Wild Fancies of Manichaeus. The Battle Before the Constitution of the World
Chapter 13
Two Opposite Substances. The Kingdom of Light. Manichaeus Teaches Uncertainties Instead of Certainties
Chapter 14
Manichaeus Promises the Knowledge of Undoubted Things, and Then Demands Faith in Doubtful Things
Chapter 15
The Doctrine of Manichaeus Not Only Uncertain, But False. His Absurd Fancy of a Land and Race of Darkness Bordering on the Holy Region and the Substance of God. The Error, First of All, of Giving to the Nature of God Limits and Borders, as If God Were a Material Substance, Having Extension in Space
Chapter 16
The Soul, Though Mutable, Has No Material Form. It is All Present in Every Part of the Body
Chapter 17
The Memory Contains the Ideas of Places of the Greatest Size
Chapter 18
The Understanding Judges of the Truth of Things, and of Its Own Action
Chapter 19
If the Mind Has No Material Extension, Much Less Has God
Chapter 20
Refutation of the Absurd Idea of Two Territories
Chapter 21
This Region of Light Must Be Material If It is Joined to the Region of Darkness. The Shape of the Region of Darkness Joined to the Region of Light
Chapter 22
The Form of the Region of Light the Worse of the Two
Chapter 23
The Anthropomorphites Not So Bad as the Manichaeans
Chapter 24
Of the Number of Natures in the Manichaean Fiction
Chapter 25
Omnipotence Creates Good Things Differing in Degree. In Every Description Whatsoever of the Junction of the Two Regions There is Either Impropriety or Absurdity
Chapter 26
The Manichaeans are Reduced to the Choice of a Tortuous, or Curved, or Straight Line of Junction. The Third Kind of Line Would Give Symmetry and Beauty Suitable to Both Regions
Chapter 27
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 Adds to the Substance of the Soul. The Straightness of Its Side Would Be So Far a Good Bestowed on the Region of Darkness by God the Creator
Chapter 28
Manichaeus Places Five Natures in the Region of Darkness
Chapter 29
The Refutation of This Absurdity
Chapter 30
The Number of Good Things in Those Natures Which Manichaeus Places in the Region of Darkness
Chapter 31
The Same Subject Continued
Chapter 32
Manichaeus Got the Arrangement of His Fanciful Notions from Visible Objects
Chapter 33
Every Nature, as Nature, is Good
Chapter 34
Nature Cannot Be Without Some Good. The Manichaeans Dwell Upon the Evils
Chapter 35
Evil Alone is Corruption. Corruption is Not Nature, But Contrary to Nature. Corruption Implies Previous Good
Chapter 36
The Source of Evil or of Corruption of Good
Chapter 37
God Alone Perfectly Good
Chapter 38
Nature Made by God; Corruption Comes from Nothing
Chapter 39
In What Sense Evils are from God
Chapter 40
Corruption Tends to Non-Existence
Chapter 41
Corruption is by God’s Permission, and Comes from Us
Chapter 42
Exhortation to the Chief Good
Chapter 43
Conclusion
Reply To Faustus The Manichaean
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Book XI
Book XII
Book XIII
Book XIV
Book XV
Book XVI
Book XVII
Book XVIII
Book XIX
Book XX
Book XXI
Book XXII
Book XXIII
Book XXIV
Book XXV
Book XXVI
Book XXVII
Book XXVIII
Book XXIX
Book XXX
Book XXXI
Book XXXII
Book XXXIII
Concerning The Nature Of Good, Against The Manichaeans
Chapter 1
God the Highest and Unchangeable Good, from Whom are All Other Good Things, Spiritual and Corporeal
Chapter 2
How This May Suffice for Correcting the Manichaeans
Chapter 3
Measure, Form, and Order, Generic Goods in Things Made by God
Chapter 4
Evil is Corruption of Measure, Form, or Order
Chapter 5
The Corrupted Nature of a More Excellent Order Sometimes Better Than an Inferior Nature Even Uncorrupted
Chapter 6
Nature Which Cannot Be Corrupted is the Highest Good; That Which Can, is Some Good
Chapter 7
The Corruption of Rational Spirits is on the One Hand Voluntary, on the Other Penal
Chapter 8
From the Corruption and Destruction of Inferior Things is the Beauty of the Universe
Chapter 9
Punishment is Constituted for the Sinning Nature that It May Be Rightly Ordered
Chapter 10
Natures Corruptible, Because Made of Nothing
Chapter 11
God Cannot Suffer Harm, Nor Can Any Other Nature Except by His Permission
Chapter 12
All Good Things are from God Alone
Chapter 13
Individual Good Things, Whether Small or Great, are from God
Chapter 14
Small Good Things in Comparison with Greater are Called by Contrary Names
Chapter 15
In the Body of the Ape the Good of Beauty is Present, Though in a Less Degree
Chapter 16
Privations in Things are Fittingly Ordered by God
Chapter 17
Nature, in as Far as It is Nature, No Evil
Chapter 18
Hyle, Which Was Called by the Ancients the Formless Material of Things, is Not an Evil
Chapter 19
To Have True Existence is an Exclusive Prerogative of God
Chapter 20
Pain Only in Good Natures
Chapter 21
From Measure Things are Said to Be Moderate-Sized
Chapter 22
Measure in Some Sense is Suitable to God Himself
Chapter 23
Whence a Bad Measure, a Bad Form, a Bad Order May Sometimes Be Spoken of
Chapter 24
It is Proved by the Testimonies of Scripture that God is Unchangeable. The Son of God Begotten, Not Made
Chapter 25
This Last Expression Misunderstood by Some
Chapter 26
That Creatures are Made of Nothing
Chapter 27
”From Him” And “Of Him” Do Not Mean The Same Thing
Chapter 28
Sin Not From God, But From The Will of Those Sinning
Chapter 29
That God is Not Defiled by Our Sins
Chapter 30
That Good Things, Even the Least, and Those that are Earthly, are by God
Chapter 31
To Punish and to Forgive Sins Belong Equally to God
Chapter 32
From God Also is the Very Power to Be Hurtful
Chapter 33
That Evil Angels Have Been Made Evil, Not by God, But by Sinning
Chapter 34
That Sin is Not the Striving for an Evil Nature, But the Desertion of a Better
Chapter 35
The Tree Was Forbidden to Adam Not Because It Was Evil, But Because It Was Good for Man to Be Subject to God
Chapter 36
No Creature of God is Evil, But to Abuse a Creature of God is Evil
Chapter 37
God Makes Good Use of the Evil Deeds of Sinners
Chapter 38
Eternal Fire Torturing the Wicked, Not Evil
Chapter 39
Fire is Called Eternal, Not as God Is, But Because Without End
Chapter 40
Neither Can God Suffer Hurt, Nor Any Other, Save by the Just Ordination of God
Chapter 41
How Great Good Things the Manichaeans Put in the Nature of Evil, and How Great Evil Things in the Nature of Good
Chapter 42
Manichaean Blasphemies Concerning the Nature of God
Chapter 43
Many Evils Before His Commingling with Evil are Attributed to the Nature of God by the Manichaeans
Chapter 44
Incredible Turpitudes in God Imagined by Manichaeus
Chapter 45
Certain Unspeakable Turpitudes Believed, Not Without Reason, Concerning the Manichaeans Themselves
Chapter 46
The Unspeakable Doctrine of the Fundamental Epistle
Chapter 47
He Compels to the Perpetration of Horrible Turpitudes
Chapter 48
Augustin Prays that the Manichaeans May Be Restored to Their Senses
II. THE ANTI-DONATIST WRITINGS
Writings In Connection With The Donatist Controversy
On Baptism, Against the Donatists
Book I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Book II
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Book III
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Book IV
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Book V
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter. 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Book VI
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Book VII
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Answer To The Letters of Petilian, The Donatist
Book I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Book II
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Book III
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter. 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
The Correction Of The Donatists
A Treatise Concerning The Correction Of The Donatists. Or Epistle CLXXXV
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11