The Catholic and Manichaean ways of life : (De moribus ecclesiae Catholicae et de moribus Manichaeorum) / / Saint Augustine ; translated by Donald A. Gallagher and Idella J. Gallagher

• Autore: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : Catholic University of America Press, , [1966]; [©1966]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 135 pages)
• Disciplina: 273.23
• Soggetto topico: Manichaeism
• Altri autori: GallagherIdella J GallagherDonald Arthur
• Note generali: Title on spine: Ways of life.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xx) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Book One: The Way of Life of the Catholic Church""; ""1. How the pretenses of the Manichaeans are to be exposed. Two ways in which the Manichaeans deceive.""; ""2. He begins with reason rather than authority, in compliance with the faulty method of the Manichaeans.""; ""3. Happiness lies in the enjoyment of man's supreme good. The conditions of this good: (1) that nothing is better than it; (2) that it cannot be lost against one's will.""; ""4. What is man?"" ; ""5. Man's supreme good is not the supreme good of the body alone, but the supreme good of the soul."" ""6. Virtue perfects the soul. The soul acquires virtue by following after God. To follow after God is to achieve the happy life.""; ""7. In seeking to know God, we must appeal to the authority of the Scriptures. The plan and principal mysteries of the divine economy with reference to our salvation. A summary of the faith.""; ""8. God is the supreme good whom we must strive after with perfect love."" ; ""9. The harmony between the Old and the New Testaments on the precept of the love of God."" ""10. What the Church teaches about God. The two gods of the Manichaeans.""; ""11. God alone should be loved, and, therefore, He is man's supreme good. Nothing is better than God. We cannot lose God against our will.""; ""12. We are united to God by love when we are subject to Him.""; ""13. Through Christ and His Spirit, we are joined inseparably to God.""; ""14. It is by love that we adhere to our supreme good, which is the Holy Trinity.""; ""15. The Christian definition of the four virtues."" ; ""16. The harmony of the Old and New Testaments."" ""17. An appeal to the Manichaeans to come to their senses.""; ""18. Only in the Catholic Church is there to be found perfect truth in the harmony of both Testaments.""; ""19. Temperance as described in the Sacred Scriptures.""; ""20. We are commanded to disdain all sensible things and to love God alone.""; ""21. Human glory and curiosity are condemned in the Sacred Scriptures.""; ""22. The love of God produces fortitude.""; ""23. Counsels and examples of fortitude drawn from the Scriptures.""; ""24. Justice and Prudence."" ; ""25. The four virtues in their relation to the love of God. The reward of this love is eternal life and the knowledge of truth."" ""26. Love of ourselves and of our neighbor.""; ""27. Doing good for our neighbor's body.""; ""28. Doing good for our neighbor's soul. The two parts of discipline: coercion and instruction. Through good conduct, we come to a knowledge of the truth.""; ""29. The authority of the Sacred Scriptures.""; ""30. Apostrophe to the Church, teacher of all wisdom. The doctrine of the Catholic Church.""; ""31. The continence of the Manichaeans compared with the life of the Anchorites and Cenobites.""
• Titolo autorizzato: The Catholic and Manichaean ways of life
• ISBN: 0-8132-1156-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781022003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Fathers of the church ; ; 56.