De natura et gratia (CCEL)
A Treatise on nature and grace, against pelagius
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)
Schlüssel
CPL 344
Datum
5. Jh.
Text
Inhaltsangabe
- A Treatise on nature and grace, against pelagius;
- Chapter 1 [I.]--The Occasion of Publishing This Work; What God's Righteousness is.
- Chapter 2 [II.]--Faith in Christ Not Necessary to Salvation, If a Man Without It Can Lead a Righteous Life.
- Chapter 3 [III.]--Nature Was Created Sound and Whole; It Was Afterwards Corrupted by Sin.
- Chapter 4 [IV.]--Free Grace.
- Chapter 5 [V.]--It Was a Matter of Justice that All Should Be Condemned.
- Chapter 6 [VI.]--The Pelagians Have Very Strong and Active Minds.
- Chapter 7 [VII.]--He Proceeds to Confute the Work of Pelagius; He Refrains as Yet from Mentioning Pelagius' Name.
- Chapter 8.--A Distinction Drawn by Pelagius Between the Possible and Actual.
- Chapter 9 [VIII.]--Even They Who Were Not Able to Be Justified are Condemned.
- Chapter 10 [IX.]--He Could Not Be Justified, Who Had Not Heard of the Name of Christ; Rendering the Cross of Christ of None Effect.
- Chapter 11 [X.]--Grace Subtly Acknowledged by Pelagius.
- Chapter 12 [XI.]--In Our Discussions About Grace, We Do Not Speak of that Which Relates to the Constitution of Our Nature, But to Its Restoration.
- Chapter 13 [XII.]--The Scope and Purpose of the Law's Threatenings;
- Chapter 14 [XIII.]--Refutation of Pelagius.
- Chapter 15 [XIV.]--Not Everything [of Doctrinal Truth] is Written in Scripture in So Many Words.
- Chapter 16 [XV.]--Pelagius Corrupts a Passage of the Apostle James by Adding a Note of Interrogation.
- Chapter 17 [XVI.]--Explanation of This Text Continued.
- Chapter 18 [XVII.]--Who May Be Said to Be in the Flesh.
- Chapter 19.--Sins of Ignorance; To Whom Wisdom is Given by God on Their Requesting It.
- Chapter 20 [XVIII.]--What Prayer Pelagius Would Admit to Be Necessary.
- Chapter 21 [XIX.]--Pelagius Denies that Human Nature Has Been Depraved or Corrupted by Sin.
- Chapter 22 [XX.]--How Our Nature Could Be Vitiated by Sin, Even Though It Be Not a Substance.
- Chapter 23 [XXI.]--Adam Delivered by the Mercy of Christ.
- Chapter 24 [XXII.]--Sin and the Penalty of Sin the Same.
- Chapter 25 [XXIII.]--God Forsakes Only Those Who Deserve to Be Forsaken. We are Sufficient of Ourselves to Commit Sin; But Not to Return to the Way of Righteousness. Death is the Punishment, Not the Cause of Sin.
- Chapter 26 [XXIV.]--Christ Died of His Own Power and Choice.
- Chapter 27.--Even Evils, Through God's Mercy, are of Use.
- Chapter 28 [XXV.]--The Disposition of Nearly All Who Go Astray. With Some Heretics Our Business Ought Not to Be Disputation, But Prayer.
- Chapter 29 [XXVI.]--A Simile to Show that God's Grace is Necessary for Doing Any Good Work Whatever. God Never Forsakes the Justified Man If He Be Not Himself Forsaken.
- Chapter 30 [XXVII.]--Sin is Removed by Sin.
- Chapter 31.--The Order and Process of Healing Our Heavenly Physician Does Not Adopt from the Sick Patient, But Derives from Himself. What Cause the Righteous Have for Fearing.
- Chapter 32 [XXVIII.]--God Forsakes Us to Some Extent that We May Not Grow Proud.
- Chapter 33 [XXIX.]--Not Every Sin is Pride. How Pride is the Commencement of Every Sin.
- Chapter 34 [XXX.]--A Man's Sin is His Own, But He Needs Grace for His Cure.
- Chapter 35 [XXXI.]--Why God Does Not Immediately Cure Pride Itself. The Secret and Insidious Growth of Pride. Preventing and Subsequent Grace.
- Chapter 36 [XXXII.]--Pride Even in Such Things as are Done Aright Must Be Avoided. Free Will is Not Taken Away When Grace is Preached.
- Chapter 37 [XXXIII.]--Being Wholly Without Sin Does Not Put Man on an Equality with God.
- Chapter 38 [XXXIV.]--We Must Not Lie, Even for the Sake of Moderation. The Praise of Humility Must Not Be Placed to the Account of Falsehood.
- Chapter 39.--Pelagius Glorifies God as Creator at the Expense of God as Saviour.
- Chapter 40 [XXXV.]--Why There is a Record in Scripture of Certain Men's Sins, Recklessness in Sin Accounts It to Be So Much Loss Whenever It Falls Short in Gratifying Lust.
- Chapter 41.--Whether Holy Men Have Died Without Sin.
- Chapter 42 [XXXVI.]--The Blessed Virgin Mary May Have Lived Without Sin. None of the Saints Besides Her Without Sin.
- Chapter 43 [XXXVII.]--Why Scripture Has Not Mentioned the Sins of All.
- Chapter 44.--Pelagius Argues that Abel Was Sinless.
- Chapter 45 [XXXVIII.]--Why Cain Has Been by Some Thought to Have Had Children by His Mother Eve. The Sins of Righteous Men. Who Can Be Both Righteous, and Yet Not Without Sin.
- Chapter 46 [XXXIX.]--Shall We Follow Scripture, or Add to Its Declarations?
- Chapter 47 [XL.]--For What Pelagius Thought that Christ is Necessary to Us.
- Chapter 48 [XLI.]--How the Term "All" Is to Be Understood.
- Chapter 49 [XLII.]--A Man Can Be Sinless, But Only by the Help of Grace. In the Saints This Possibility Advances and Keeps Pace with the Realization.
- Chapter 50 [XLIII.]--God Commands No Impossibilities.
- Chapter 51 [XLIV.]--State of the Question Between the Pelagians and the Catholics. Holy Men of Old Saved by the Self-Same Faith in Christ Which We Exercise.
- Chapter 52.--The Whole Discussion is About Grace.
- Chapter 53 [XLV.]--Pelagius Distinguishes Between a Power and Its Use.
- Chapter 54 [XLVI.]--There is No Incompatibility Between Necessity and Free Will.
- Chapter 55 [XLVII.]--The Same Continued.
- Chapter 56 [XLVIII.]--The Assistance of Grace in a Perfect Nature.
- Chapter 57 [XLIX.]--It Does Not Detract from God's Almighty Power, that He is Incapable of Either Sinning, or Dying, or Destroying Himself.
- Chapter 58 [L.]--Even Pious and God-Fearing Men Resist Grace.
- Chapter 59 [LI.]--In What Sense Pelagius Attributed to God's Grace the Capacity of Not Sinning.
- Chapter 60 [LII.]--Pelagius Admits "Contrary Flesh" In the Unbaptized.
- Chapter 61 [LIII.]--Paul Asserts that the Flesh is Contrary Even in the Baptized.
- Chapter 62.--Concerning What Grace of God is Here Under Discussion. The Ungodly Man, When Dying, is Not Delivered from Concupiscence.
- Chapter 63 [LIV.]--Does God Create Contraries?
- Chapter 64.--Pelagius' Admission as Regards the Unbaptized, Fatal.
- Chapter 65 [LV.]--"This Body of Death," So Called from Its Defect, Not from Its Substance.
- Chapter 66.--The Works, Not the Substance, of the "Flesh" Opposed to the "Spirit."
- Chapter 67 [LVII.]--Who May Be Said to Be Under the Law.
- Chapter 68 [LVIII.]--Despite the Devil, Man May, by God's Help, Be Perfected.
- Chapter 69 [LIX.]--Pelagius Puts Nature in the Place of Grace.
- Chapter 70 [LX.]--Whether Any Man is Without Sin in This Life.
- Chapter 71 [LXI.]--Augustin Replies Against the Quotations Which Pelagius Had Advanced Out of the Catholic Writers. Lactantius.
- Chapter 72 [LXI.]--Hilary. The Pure in Heart Blessed. The Doing and Perfecting of Righteousness.
- Chapter 73.--He Meets Pelagius with Another Passage from Hilary.
- Chapter 74 [LXIII.]--Ambrose.
- Chapter 75.--Augustin Adduces in Reply Some Other Passages of Ambrose.
- Chapter 76 [LXIV.]--John of Constantinople.
- Chapter 77.--Xystus.
- Chapter 78 [LXV.]--Jerome.
- Chapter 79 [LXVI.]--A Certain Necessity of Sinning.
- Chapter 80 [LXVII.]--Augustin Himself. Two Methods Whereby Sins, Like Diseases, are Guarded Against.
- Chapter 81.--Augustin Quotes Himself on Free Will.
- Chapter 82 [LXVIII.]--How to Exhort Men to Faith, Repentance, and Advancement.
- Chapter 83 [LXIX.]--God Enjoins No Impossibility, Because All Things are Possible and Easy to Love.
- Chapter 84 [LXX.]--The Degrees of Love are Also Degrees of Holiness.