Eighty-three different questions / / Saint Augustine ; translated by David L. Mosher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910974448403321
• Autore: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, <354-430.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, [2002]
• ISBN: 0-8132-1170-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Collana: The fathers of the church, a new translation ; ; v.70
• Disciplina: 270
• Soggetti: Christian literature, Early; Theology; Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: c1982.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Conents ""; ""Preface""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""I. Literary Form and Chronology""; ""II. Doctrinal Content""; ""Eighty-three Different Questions""; ""1. Is the Soul Self-existent?""; ""2. On Free Choice""; ""3. Is God Responsible for Human Perversity?""; ""4. What is the Cause of Human Perversity?""; ""5. Can an Animal without Reason be Happy?""; ""6. On Evil""; ""7. What does 'Soul' Properly Refer to in a Living Being?""; ""8. Is the Soul Self-moving?""; ""9. Can Truth be Perceived by the Bodily Senses""; ""10. Does Body Come from God?""; ""11. Why was Christ Born of a Woman?""""12. The Opinion of a Certain Wise Man""; ""13. What Proof is There that Men are Superior to Animals?""; ""14. That the Body of Christ was not a Phantom""; ""15. On the Intellect""; ""16. On the Son of God""; ""17. On God's Knowledge""; ""18. On the Trinity""; ""19. On God and the Created""; ""20. On the Place of God""; ""21. Is not God the Author of Evil?""; ""22. That God is not Subject to Need""; ""23. On the Father and the Son""; ""24. Do Sin and Right Conduct Result from a Free Choice of the Will?""; ""25. On the Cross of Christ""; ""26. On the Diversity of Sins""""27. On Providence""; ""28. Why did God Want to Make the World?""; ""29. Is There an 'Above' and a 'Below' in the Universe?""; ""30. Has Everything been Created for Man's Use?""; ""31. Cicero's Opinion on the Division and Definition of the Virtues of the ; Soul""; ""Section 1""; ""Section 2""; ""Section 3""; ""32. Can Someone Understand Something Better than Someone Else, and Therefore Can There be an Endless Advance in the Understanding of the Thing?""; ""33. On Fear""; ""34. Must Nothing Else be Loved but Freedom from Fear?""; ""35. What Ought to be Loved?""; ""Section 1""""Section 2""; ""36. On Nourishing Charity""; ""Section 1""; ""Section 2""; ""Section 3""; ""Section 4""; ""37. On the Forever Born""; ""38. On the Structure of the Soul""; ""39. On the Sources of Nourishment""; ""40. Since the Nature of Souls is the Same, Why are the Choices of Men Different?""; ""41. Since God has Made Everything, Why did He not Make Everything Equal?""; ""42. How was Christ Both in His Mother's Womb and in Heaven?""; ""43. Why did the Son of God Appear as a Man and the Holy Spirit as a Dove?""; ""44. Why did the Lord Jesus Christ Come so Long After Man Sinned and not in the Beginning?""""45. Against the Mathematicians""; ""Section 1""; ""Section 2""; ""46. On the Ideas""; ""Section 1""; ""Section 2""; ""47. Will We Ever be Able to See our Own Thoughts?""; ""48. On What can be Believed""; ""49. Why is it that the Sons of Israel Used to Make Visible Sacrifices of Animal Victims?""; ""50. On the Equality of the Son""; ""51. On Man Made in the Image and Likeness of God""; ""Section 1""; ""Section 2""; ""Section 3""; ""Section 4""; ""52. On the Scripture: ""I am sorry that I have made man""""
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