Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.4: St. Augustin: The Writings against the Manichaeans and against the Donatists (Catholic Edition)
Overview
Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume IV: St. Augustin: The Writings against the Manichaeans and against the Donatists. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era. The Catholic edition of Early Church Fathers does not include the introductions, prolegomenae, and various interpretive comments made by the protestant editors of the Edinburgh edition. However, it retains all of the footnotes found in the printed editions. Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series IV Augustine of Hippo Of the Morals of the Catholic Church On the Morals of the Manichæans Concerning Two Souls, against the Manichæans Acts or Disputation against Fortunatus, the Manichæan Against the Epistle of Manichæus Called Fundamental Reply to Faustus the Manichæan Concerning the Nature of Good, against the Manichæans On Baptism, against the Donatists In Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist, Bishop of Cirta A Treatise concerning the Correction of the Donatists (Letter 185)
Top Highlights
“Sin, then, is any transgression in deed, or word, or desire, of the eternal law. And the eternal law is the divine order or will of God, which requires the preservation of natural order, and forbids the breach of it.” (Page 283)
“For the sacrament of baptism is what the person possesses who is baptized; and the sacrament of conferring baptism is what he possesses who is ordained. And as the baptized person, if he depart from the unity of the Church, does not thereby lose the sacrament of baptism, so also he who is ordained, if he depart from the unity of the Church, does not lose the sacrament of conferring baptism.” (Page 412)
“It is true that Christians pay religious honor to the memory of the martyrs, both to excite us to imitate them and to obtain a share in their merits, and the assistance of their prayers. But we build altars not to any martyr, but to the God of martyrs, although it is to the memory of the martyrs.” (Page 262)
“‘endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace,’9 insomuch as they have not charity, they cannot attain to eternal salvation, even with all those good things which profit them not.” (Page 417)
“By all these considerations it is proved that the sacrament of baptism is one thing, the conversion of the heart another” (Page 462)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.4: St. Augustin: The Writings against the Manichaeans and against the Donatists (Catholic Edition)
- Authors: Philip Schaff, Augustine of Hippo
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Catholic Edition)
- Volume: 4
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1887
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.104
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:03:30Z