St Augustine of Hippo: Life and Controversies

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Westminster Press, 1963 - 428 páginas
"This study provides an outline of St. Augustine's career and discusses three major fields of his controversial writings: against the Manichees, who denied the essential goodness of the material creation; the Donatists, who conceived of the Church only as an assembly of saints, and denied that God would operate through a sinful minister; and against the British theologian Pelagius and his supporters, whose concern for personal holiness and individual responsibility for conduct led them to deny the Fall and to maintain a theology of divine grace which saw infant baptism as desirable but not essential for salvation. Augustine's attacks on Pelagianism initiated a debate which lasted for many centuries, and still remains controversial to this day; but whatever view is taken with regard to his doctrine, his influence has been profound, and no serious Christian theologian can afford to ignore the issues which he raised." [Back cover].

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Abbreviations 68
8
I
35
II 104
69
The Manichaean religion
157
Augustines polemic against the Manichees
193
Augustine and Donatism
237
The theology of the Donatist controversy
276
the course
312
the issues
352
Index
417

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