Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists (NPNF I/IV)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text · 2 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~680,000 words · 3,215 passages
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- APAAugustine. (n.d.). Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists (NPNF I/IV). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/augustine/writings-against-the-manichaeans-and-against-the-donatists-npnf-i-iv
- MLAAugustine. "Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists (NPNF I/IV)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/augustine/writings-against-the-manichaeans-and-against-the-donatists-npnf-i-iv.
- ChicagoAugustine. Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists (NPNF I/IV). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/augustine/writings-against-the-manichaeans-and-against-the-donatists-npnf-i-iv.
What it is about
Augustine's writings against two things at once: Manichaeism, of which he had been part, and the Donatist schism that was splitting Christian Africa.
Context and history
Against the Manichaeans writes a man who spent nine years among them before his conversion: he knows the argument from inside, and part of his theology of evil comes from having had to take it apart. The Donatist controversy is the more uncomfortable, and that should be said: it is here that Augustine ends by justifying the civil power in forcing schismatics back, with the 'compelle intrare' of the parable. That argument had a long and dark posterity, and it reads better when one knows it.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
The Edinburgh translation, especially of the first two treatises, is sufficiently faithful and idiomatic, and needed very little alteration by the American editor, who compared it sentence by sentence with the Latin original, and made changes only where they seemed necessary. This part of the volume is also enriched by an introductory essay of Dr. Newman, which embodies the literature and the results of the most recent as well as the earlier researches concerning that anti-Christian heresy. II.— The Writings against the Donatists. These were well translated by the Rev. J. R. King, of Oxford, and are slightly revised by Dr. Hartranft, of Hartford, after a careful comparison with the Latin. The literary introduction of Dr. Hartranft, in connection with the translator's historical preface, will place the reader in the situation of the controversy between the Catholic Church and the Donatists at the time of St. Augustin. In both sections the treatises are arranged in chronological order. The fifth volume will contain the writings of St. Augustin against the Pelagians and Semi-Pelagians. It is in the hands of the printer and will be published in October. PHILIP SCHAFF. New York, June, 1887. COMENTS. xi\.il>r^L^xi'.* ■ • • • • • • • • • • • I. THE ANTI-MANICH^AN WRITINGS. Translated by the Rev. Richard Stothert, M.A., Bombay, and Prof, Albert H. Newman, D.D., LL.D., Toronto. Introductory Essay on the ManichjEan Heresy By Dr. Newman. II. Modern Vvorks. Isaac de Beausobre (b. 1659 in France, pastor of the French church in Berlin, d. 1738): Histoire Crit. de Maniche'e et du Maniclie'isrtie, Amst. 1634 and '39, 2 vols. 4to. Part of the first volume is historical, the second doctrinal. Very full and scholarly. He intended to write a third volume on the later Manichseans. F. Chr. Baur: Das JSIanichdische Relio-ionso system nach den Quellen neu untersucht und entwickelt, Tiib. 1831 (500 pages). A compre-I Baur discredits tlriis claim on internal grounds {Das
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