Anti-Manichaean Writings
Title | Anti-Manichaean Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Saint Augustine |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 2015-06-07 |
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ISBN | 9781514260074 |
This collection of the Anti-Manichaean Writings of Saint Augustine has all of the following works: 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 Manichean Against the Epistle of Manichaeus Called Fundamental Reply to Faustus the Manichean Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manicheans
The Anti-Manichaean Writings
Title | The Anti-Manichaean Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Saint Augustine of Hippo |
Publisher | Aeterna Press |
Pages | 679 |
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Genre | Religion |
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Enough, probably, has been done in our other books in the way of answering the ignorant and profane attacks which the Manichaeans make on the law, which is called the Old Testament, in a spirit of vainglorious boasting, and with the approval of the uninstructed. Here, too, I may shortly touch upon the subject. For every one with average intelligence can easily see that the explanation of the Scriptures should be sought for from those who are the professed teachers of the Scriptures; and that it may happen, and indeed always happens, that many things seem absurd to the ignorant, which, when they are explained by the learned, appear all the more excellent, and are received in the explanation with the greater pleasure on account of the obstructions which made it difficult to reach the meaning.
The Text of the Anti-Manichaean Writings of Titus of Bostra and Serapion of Thmuis
Title | The Text of the Anti-Manichaean Writings of Titus of Bostra and Serapion of Thmuis PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Pierce Casey |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1928 |
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The Writings Against The Manichaeans And The Donatists
Title | The Writings Against The Manichaeans And The Donatists PDF eBook |
Author | St. Augustine of Hippo |
Publisher | Jazzybee Verlag |
Pages | 638 |
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Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3849674312 |
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.
Anti-Manichaean and Anti-Donatist Writings
Title | Anti-Manichaean and Anti-Donatist Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Aurelius Augustinus |
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Pages | |
Release | 1988 |
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Manichaeism
Title | Manichaeism PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas J. Baker-Brian |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2011-02-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567308979 |
This is the first general comprehensive introduction to Manichaeism aimed at a non-specialist and undergraduate readership. This study will be a historical and theological introduction to Manichaeism. It will comprise a biographical treatment of the founder Mani, situating his personality, his writings and his ideas within the Aramaic Christian tradition of third century (CE) Mesopotamia. It will provide a historical treatment of the Manichaean church in late antiquity (250-700 CE), detailing the emergence of Manichaeism in the late Roman and Byzantine empires, in addition to examining the continuation of Manichaean traditions in the eastern world (China) up to the thirteenth century and beyond. The book will consider the theology of Mani's system, with the aim of providing a clear-eyed treatment of the cosmogonic, scriptural and ecclesiological ideas forming its foundations. The study will base its analysis on original Manichaean literary sources, together with rehabilitating the representation of Manichaeism in those writings that polemicised against the religion. The study will aim to demonstrate the highly syncretic nature of Manichaeism, and will look to move forward 'traditional' perceptions of the religion as being simply a form of Christian Gnostic Dualism.
In Defence of Faith, Against the Manichaeans
Title | In Defence of Faith, Against the Manichaeans PDF eBook |
Author | Aäron Vanspauwen |
Publisher | Brepols Publishers |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 2021-03-04 |
Genre | Manichaeism |
ISBN | 9782503589954 |
The subject of this publication is the treatise Aduersus Manichaeos, attributed to Evodius of Uzalis. Evodius was a friend and contemporary of Augustine of Hippo. The treatise Aduersus Manichaeos is an important source on the North African Catholic church and its polemics against the Manichaeans. Although the treatise is strongly influenced by the anti-Manichaean writings of Augustine of Hippo, it also offers much original and likely authentic information on the Manichaean movement. Thus far, however, no systematic study had been conducted on this anti-Manichaean treatise attributed to Evodius. As a result, some of its historical circumstances have been shrouded in mystery.