De spiritu et littera (CCEL)
A Treatise on the spirit and the letter
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 V - St. Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings. T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1887 (Translation, Englisch)
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CPL 343
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5. Jh.
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- A Treatise on the spirit and the letter
- Chapter 1 [I.] --The Occasion of Writing This Work; A Thing May Be Capable of Being Done, and Yet May Never Be Done.
- Chapter 2 [II.]--The Examples Apposite.
- Chapter 3.--Theirs is Comparatively a Harmless Error, Who Say that a Man Lives Here Without Sin.
- Chapter 4.--Theirs is a Much More Serious Error, Requiring a Very Vigorous Refutation, Who Deny God's Grace to Be Necessary.
- Chapter 5 [III.]--True Grace is the Gift of the Holy Ghost, Which Kindles in the Soul the Joy and Love of Goodness.
- Chapter 6 [IV.]--The Teaching of Law Without the Life-Giving Spirit is "The Letter that Killeth."
- Chapter 7 [V.]--What is Proposed to Be Here Treated.
- Chapter 8.--Romans Interprets Corinthians.
- Chapter 9 [VI].--Through the Law Sin Has Abounded.
- Chapter 10.--Christ the True Healer.
- Chapter 11 [VII.]--From What Fountain Good Works Flow.
- Chapter 12.--Paul, Whence So Called; Bravely Contends for Grace.
- Chapter 13 [VIII.]--Keeping the Law; The Jews' Glorying; The Fear of Punishment; The Circumcision of the Heart.
- Chapter 14.--In What Respect the Pelagians Acknowledge God as the Author of Our Justification.
- Chapter 15 [IX.]--The Righteousness of God Manifested by the Law and the Prophets.
- Chapter 16 [X.]--How the Law Was Not Made for a Righteous Man.
- Chapter 17.--The Exclusion of Boasting.
- Chapter 18 [XI.]--Piety is Wisdom; That is Called the Righteousness of God, Which He Produces.
- Chapter 19 [XII]--The Knowledge of God Through the Creation.
- Chapter 20.--The Law Without Grace.
- Chapter 21 [XIII.]--The Law of Works and the Law of Faith.
- Chapter 22.--No Man Justified by Works.
- Chapter 23 [XIV.]--How the Decalogue Kills, If Grace Be Not Present.
- Chapter 24.--The Passage in Corinthians.
- Chapter 25.--The Passage in Romans.
- Chapter 26.--No Fruit Good Except It Grow from the Root of Love.
- Chapter 27 [XV.]--Grace, Concealed in the Old Testament, is Revealed in the New.
- Chapter 28 [XVI]--Why the Holy Ghost is Called the Finger of God.
- Chapter 29 [XVII.]--A Comparison of the Law of Moses and of the New Law.
- Chapter 30.--The New Law Written Within.
- Chapter 31 [XVIII.]--The Old Law Ministers Death; The New, Righteousness.
- Chapter 32 [XIX.]--The Christian Faith Touching the Assistance of Grace.
- Chapter 33.--The Prophecy of Jeremiah Concerning the New Testament.
- Chapter 34.--The Law; Grace.
- Chapter 35 [XX.]--The Old Law; The New Law.
- Chapter 36 [XXI.]--The Law Written in Our Hearts.
- Chapter 37 [XXII.]--The Eternal Reward.
- Chapter 38 [XXIII.]--The Re-Formation Which is Now Being Effected, Compared with the Perfection of the Life to Come.
- Chapter 39 [XXIV]--The Eternal Reward Which is Specially Declared in the New Testament, Foretold by the Prophet.
- Chapter 40.--How that is to Be the Reward of All; The Apostle Earnestly Defends Grace.
- Chapter 41.--The Law Written in the Heart, and the Reward of the Eternal Contemplation of God, Belong to the New Covenant; Who Among the Saints are the Least and the Greatest.
- Chapter 42 [XXV.]--Difference Between the Old and the New Testaments.
- Chapter 43 [XXVI.]--A Question Touching the Passage in the Apostle About the Gentiles Who are Said to Do by Nature the Law's Commands, Which They are Also Said to Have Written on Their Hearts.
- Chapter 44.--The Answer Is, that the Passage Must Be Understood of the Faithful of the New Covenant.
- Chapter 45.--It is Not by Their Works, But by Grace, that the Doers of the Law are Justified; God's Saints and God's Name Hallowed in Different Senses.
- Chapter 46.--How the Passage of the Law Agrees with that of the Prophet.
- Chapter 47 [XXVII.]--The Law "Being Done by Nature" Means, Done by Nature as Restored by Grace.
- Chapter 48.--The Image of God is Not Wholly Blotted Out in These Unbelievers; Venial Sins.
- Chapter 49.--The Grace Promised by the Prophet for the New Covenant.
- Chapter 50 [XXIX.]--Righteousness is the Gift of God.
- Chapter 51.--Faith the Ground of All Righteousness.
- Chapter 52 [XXX.]--Grace Establishes Free Will.
- Chapter 53 [XXXI.]--Volition and Ability.
- Chapter 54.--Whether Faith Be in a Man's Own Power.
- Chapter 55 [XXXII.]--What Faith is Laudable.
- Chapter 56.--The Faith of Those Who are Under the Law Different from the Faith of Others.
- Chapter 57 [XXXIII.]--Whence Comes the Will to Believe?
- Chapter 58.--The Free Will of Man is an Intermediate Power.
- Chapter 59.--Mercy and Pity in the Judgment of God.
- Chapter 60 [XXXIV.]--The Will to Believe is from God.
- Chapter 61 [XXXV.]--Conclusion of the Work.
- Chapter 62.--He Returns to the Question Which Marcellinus Had Proposed to Him.
- Chapter 63.--An Objection.
- Chapter 64 [XXXVI.]--When the Commandment to Love is Fulfilled.
- Chapter 65.--In What Sense a Sinless Righteousness in This Life Can Be Asserted.
- Chapter 66.--Although Perfect Righteousness Be Not Found Here on Earth, It is Still Not Impossible.