Augustinus von Hippo 354-430
De duabus animabus
On two souls, against the Manichaeans
Bibliographische Angabe
A select library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. Edited by Philip Schaff, D.D., LL.D., Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, New York, in connection with a number of patristic scholars of Europe and America. Volume IV: St. Augustin: The writings against the Manichaeans and against the Donatists T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1887. (Translation, Englisch)
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Inhaltsangabe
- On two souls, against the Manichaeans.
- Chapter 1.--By What Course of Reasoning the Error of the Manichaeans Concerning Two Souls, One of Which is Not from God, is Refuted. Every Soul, Inasmuch as It is a Certain Life, Can Have Its Existence Only from God the Source of Life.
- Chapter 2.--If the Light that is Perceived by Sense Has God for Its Author, as the Manichaeans Acknowledge, Much More The Soul Which is Perceived by Intellect Alone.
- Chapter 3.--How It is Proved that Every Body Also is from God. That the Soul Which is Called Evil by the Manichaeans is Better Than Light.
- Chapter 4.--Even the Soul of a Fly is More Excellent Than the Light.
- Chapter 5.--How Vicious Souls, However Worthy of Condemnation They May Be, Excel the Light Which is Praiseworthy in Its Kind.
- Chapter 6.--Whether Even Vices Themselves as Objects of Intellectual Apprehension are to Be Preferred to Light as an Object of Sense Perception, and are to Be Attributed to God as Their Author. Vice of the Mind and Certain Defects are Not Rightly to Be Counted Among Intelligible Things. Defects Themselves Even If They Should Be Counted Among Intelligible Things Should Never Be Put Before Sensible Things. If Light is Visible by God, Much More is the Soul, Even If Vicious, Which in So Far as It Lives is an Intelligible Thing. Passages of Scripture are Adduced by the Manichaeans to the Contrary.
- Chapter 7.--How Evil Men are of God, and Not of God.
- Chapter 8.--The Manichaeans Inquire Whence is Evil and by This Question Think They Have Triumphed. Let Them First Know, Which is Most Easy to Do, that Nothing Can Live Without God. Consummate Evil Cannot Be Known Except by the Knowledge of Consummate Good, Which is God.
- Chapter 9.--Augustin Deceived by Familiarity with the Manichaeans, and by the Succession of Victories Over Ignorant Christians Reported by Them. The Manichaeans are Likewise Easily Refuted from the Knowledge of Sin and the Will.
- Chapter 10.--Sin is Only from the Will. His Own Life and Will Best Known to Each Individual. What Will is.
- Chapter 11.--What Sin is.
- Chapter 12.--From the Definitions Given of Sin and Will, He Overthrows the Entire Heresy of the Manichaeans. Likewise from the Just Condemnation of Evil Souls It Follows that They are Evil Not by Nature But by Will. That Souls are Good By Nature, to Which the Pardon of Sins is Granted.
- Chapter 13.--From Deliberation on the Evil and on the Good Part It Results that Two Classes of Souls are Not to Be Held to. A Class of Souls Enticing to Shameful Deeds Having Been Conceded, It Does Not Follow that These are Evil by Nature, that the Others are Supreme Good.
- Chapter 14.--Again It is Shown from the Utility of Repenting that Souls are Not by Nature Evil. So Sure a Demonstration is Not Contradicted Except from the Habit of Erring.
- Chapter 15.--He Prays for His Friends Whom He Has Had as Associates in Error.