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Augustinus von Hippo (354-430)
De natura boni
Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans
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Augustinus von Hippo 354-430
De natura boni
Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans
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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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- Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans.
- Chapter 1.--God the Highest and Unchangeable Good, from Whom are All Other Good Things, Spiritual and Corporeal.
- Chapter 2.--How This May Suffice for Correcting the Manichaeans.
- Chapter 3.--Measure, Form, and Order, Generic Goods in Things Made by God.
- Chapter 4.--Evil is Corruption of Measure, Form, or Order.
- Chapter 5.--The Corrupted Nature of a More Excellent Order Sometimes Better Than an Inferior Nature Even Uncorrupted.
- Chapter 6.--Nature Which Cannot Be Corrupted is the Highest Good; That Which Can, is Some Good.
- Chapter 7.--The Corruption of Rational Spirits is on the One Hand Voluntary, on the Other Penal.
- Chapter 8.--From the Corruption and Destruction of Inferior Things is the Beauty of the Universe.
- Chapter 9.--Punishment is Constituted for the Sinning Nature that It May Be Rightly Ordered.
- Chapter 10.--Natures Corruptible, Because Made of Nothing.
- Chapter 11.--God Cannot Suffer Harm, Nor Can Any Other Nature Except by His Permission.
- Chapter 12.--All Good Things are from God Alone.
- Chapter 13.--Individual Good Things, Whether Small or Great, are from God.
- Chapter 14.--Small Good Things in Comparison with Greater are Called by Contrary Names.
- Chapter 15.--In the Body of the Ape the Good of Beauty is Present, Though in a Less Degree.
- Chapter 16.--Privations in Things are Fittingly Ordered by God.
- Chapter 17.--Nature, in as Far as It is Nature, No Evil.
- Chapter 18.--Hyle, Which Was Called by the Ancients the Formless Material of Things, is Not an Evil.
- Chapter 19.--To Have True Existence is an Exclusive Prerogative of God.
- Chapter 20.--Pain Only in Good Natures.
- Chapter 21.--From Measure Things are Said to Be Moderate-Sized.
- Chapter 22.--Measure in Some Sense is Suitable to God Himself.
- Chapter 23.--Whence a Bad Measure, a Bad Form, a Bad Order May Sometimes Be Spoken of.
- Chapter 24.--It is Proved by the Testimonies of Scripture that God is Unchangeable. The Son of God Begotten, Not Made.
- Chapter 25.--This Last Expression Misunderstood by Some.
- Chapter 26.--That Creatures are Made of Nothing.
- Chapter 27.--"From Him" And "Of Him" Do Not Mean The Same Thing.
- Chapter 28.--Sin Not From God, But From The Will of Those Sinning.
- Chapter 29.--That God is Not Defiled by Our Sins.
- Chapter 30.--That Good Things, Even the Least, and Those that are Earthly, are by God.
- Chapter 31.--To Punish and to Forgive Sins Belong Equally to God.
- Chapter 32.--From God Also is the Very Power to Be Hurtful.
- Chapter 33.--That Evil Angels Have Been Made Evil, Not by God, But by Sinning.
- Chapter 34.--That Sin is Not the Striving for an Evil Nature, But the Desertion of a Better.
- Chapter 35.--The Tree Was Forbidden to Adam Not Because It Was Evil, But Because It Was Good for Man to Be Subject to God.
- Chapter 36.--No Creature of God is Evil, But to Abuse a Creature of God is Evil.
- Chapter 37.--God Makes Good Use of the Evil Deeds of Sinners.
- Chapter 38.--Eternal Fire Torturing the Wicked, Not Evil.
- Chapter 39.--Fire is Called Eternal, Not as God Is, But Because Without End.
- Chapter 40.--Neither Can God Suffer Hurt, Nor Any Other, Save by the Just Ordination of God.
- Chapter 41.--How Great Good Things the Manichaeans Put in the Nature of Evil, and How Great Evil Things in the Nature of Good.
- Chapter 42.--Manichaean Blasphemies Concerning the Nature of God.
- Chapter 43.--Many Evils Before His Commingling with Evil are Attributed to the Nature of God by the Manichaeans.
- Chapter 44.--Incredible Turpitudes in God Imagined by Manichaeus.
- Chapter 45.--Certain Unspeakable Turpitudes Believed, Not Without Reason, Concerning the Manichaeans Themselves.
- Chapter 46.--The Unspeakable Doctrine of the Fundamental Epistle.
- Chapter 47.--He Compels to the Perpetration of Horrible Turpitudes.
- Chapter 48.--Augustin Prays that the Manichaeans May Be Restored to Their Senses.