Download or read book The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists Part II The Donatists Revised written by Saint Augustine and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists Part II The Donatists written by Aurelius Augustine and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second part of this series, Augustine switches his focus to a group that were also threatening the church of his day in that they believed that the church must be perfect and faultless in all it does. The Donatists, started to refuse to be baptised or taught by anyone that they felt was a traitor to the faith since they were the only true church that was allowed to administer sacraments and teach the ways of God to the world. Augustine quickly fought back against this group bringing all their arguments forward to be thought through and condemned by one of the greatest thinkers and theologians of the early church.
Download or read book The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists Part I The Manichaeans Revised written by Aurelius Augustine and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before converting to Christianity, Augustine was at one time a member of a group called the Manichaeans and this collection of works are his attempt to combat the growing threat that this religion caused to the rise and growth of the Christian church. The Manichaeans were a dualistic society that focused on the goodness of the spirit and the evil of the material. While basing their belief structure of Mesopotamian Gnosticism it is hard to say for certain that they were Gnostic themselves. Augustine shows sound arguments to counter the beliefs he reveals in this collection of writings even going so far as to have a verbal parley back and forth with a leading member of the religious movement Fortunatus. Now in larger print!
Download or read book The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists Part I The Manichaeans Revised written by Saint Augustine and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings Against The Manichaeans And The Donatists written by St. Augustine of Hippo and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gives a fair sample of Augustin’s controversial powers. His nine years’ personal experience of the vanity of Manichæism made him thoroughly earnest and sympathetic in his efforts to disentangle other men from its snares, and also equipped him with the knowledge requisite for this task. No doubt the Pelagian controversy was more congenial to his mind. His logical acuteness and knowledge of Scripture availed him more in combating men who fought with the same weapons, than in dealing with a system which threw around its positions the mist of Gnostic speculation, or veiled its doctrine under a grotesque mythology, or based itself on a cosmogony too fantastic for a Western mind to tolerate.[25] But however Augustin may have misconceived the strange forms in which this system was presented, there is no doubt that he comprehended and demolished its fundamental principles;[26] that he did so as a necessary part of his own personal search for the truth; and that in doing so he gained possession, vitally and permanently of ideas and principles which subsequently entered into all he thought and wrote. In finding his way through the mazes of the obscure region into which Mani had led him, he once for all ascertained the true relation subsisting between God and His creatures, formed his opinion regarding the respective provinces of reason and faith, and the connection of the Old and New Testaments, and found the root of all evil in the created will.
Download or read book The Writings Against the Manichaeans written by saint Augustinus and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists written by Aurelius Augustinus and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers First Series Volume IV St Augustine The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists written by Philip Schaff and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."
Download or read book The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists written by Aurelius Augustinus and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings Against the Manich ans and Against the Donatists written by Aurelius Augustinus and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Select Library of the Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church St Augustin The writings against the Manich ans and against the Donatists written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adam and Eve in Scripture Theology and Literature written by Peter B. Ely and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam and Eve in Scripture, Theology, and Literature: Sin, Compassion, and Forgiveness is an extended consideration of the narrative of Adam and Eve, first seen in the Hebrew Bible but given new life by St. Paul in the New Testament. Paul’s treatment of Adam and Eve, especially his designation of Christ as a second Adam, has had an enormous influence in Christianity. Peter Ely follows this rich narrative as it develops in history, providing the basis of the doctrine of original sin in Christianity, giving rise in modern times to theological speculation, and entering thematically into mysticism and literature. The power of the adamic narrative can only be realized if one treats it as a true but non-historical myth. The “truth” of the myth lies in its ability to stimulate thinking and so reveal the depths of human experience. Augustine understood that, so did Julian of Norwich, and even the Belgian author of mystery stories, Georges Simenon, who had a deep sense of the universality of human weakness and the possibilities of redeeming what was lost. Simenon’s detective Maigret saw himself as a “mender of destinies.” The doctrine of original sin, the notion that human beings share a common vulnerability, can open the way to compassion and forgiveness. As Shakespeare illustrates in Measure for Measure, the awareness of weakness in ourselves should move us to compassion for others. The recognition of a kind of “democracy of sin” can keep us from considering ourselves better than others, unlike them in their weakness, and entitled to stand in judgment of them. Thus, compassion opens the door to forgiveness. The progress from sin to compassion to forgiveness forms the heart of this work.
Download or read book The Manichean Debate written by Saint Augustine and published by New City Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains eight works of Augustine of Hippo against the Manicheans.
Download or read book On Baptism Against the Donatists written by Saint Augustine of Hippo and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treatise was written about 400 A.D. Concerning it Aug. in Retract. Book II. c. xviii., says: I have written seven books on Baptism against the Donatists, who strive to defend themselves by the authority of the most blessed bishop and martyr Cyprian; in which I show that nothing is so effectual for the refutation of the Donatists, and for shutting their mouths directly from upholding their schism against the Catholic Church, as the letters and act of Cyprian. Aeterna Press
Download or read book A Select Library of the Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church St Augustin The writings against the Manich ans and against the Donatists written by Philip Schaff and published by Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1980-05 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume of St. Augustine's work contains his polemical writings in vindication of the Catholic church against the heresy of the Manichaeans, and the schism of the Donatists.
Download or read book On Genesis written by Saint Augustine and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description available
Download or read book Christian Martyrdom and Political Violence written by Rubén Rosario Rodríguez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, martyrdom and political violence have been conflated in the public imagination. Rubén Rosario Rodríguez argues that martyr narratives deserve consideration as resources for resisting political violence in contemporary theological reflection. Underlying the three Abrahamic monotheistic traditions is a shared belief that God requires liberation for the oppressed, justice for the victims and, most demanding of all, love for the political enemy. Christian, Jewish and Muslim martyr narratives that condone political violence - whether terrorist or state-sponsored - are examined alongside each religion's canon, in order to evaluate how central or marginalized these discourses are within their respective traditions. Primarily a work of Christian theology in conversation with Judaism and Islam, this book aims to model religious pluralism and cooperation by retrieving distinctly Christian sources that nurture tolerance and facilitate coexistence, while respecting religious difference.
