De praedestinatione sanctorum (CCEL)
A Treatise on the predestination of the saints
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 354
Datum
5. Jh.
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Inhaltsangabe
- A Treatise on the predestination of the saints
- Chapter 1 [I.]--Introduction.
- Chapter 2.--To What Extent the Massilians Withdraw from the Pelagians.
- Chapter 3 [II.]--Even the Beginning of Faith is of God's Gift.
- Chapter 4.--Continuation of the Preceding.
- Chapter 5.--To Believe is to Think with Assent.
- Chapter 6.--Presumption and Arrogance to Be Avoided.
- Chapter 7 [III.]--Augustin Confesses that He Had Formerly Been in Error Concerning the Grace of God.
- Chapter 8 [IV.]--What Augustin Wrote to Simplicianus, the Successor of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.
- Chapter 9 [V.]--The Purpose of the Apostle in These Words.
- Chapter 10.--It is God's Grace Which Specially Distinguishes One Man from Another.
- Chapter 11 [VI.]--That Some Men are Elected is of God's Mercy.
- Chapter 12 [VII.]--Why the Apostle Said that We are Justified by Faith and Not by Works.
- Chapter 13 [VIII.]--The Effect of Divine Grace.
- Chapter 14.--Why the Father Does Not Teach All that They May Come to Christ.
- Chapter 15.--It is Believers that are Taught of God.
- Chapter 16.--Why the Gift of Faith is Not Given to All.
- Chapter 17 [IX.]--His Argument in His Letter Against Porphyry, as to Why the Gospel Came So Late into the World.
- Chapter 18.--The Preceding Argument Applied to the Present Time.
- Chapter 19 [X]--In What Respects Predestination and Grace Differ.
- Chapter 20.--Did God Promise the Good Works of the Nations and Not Their Faith, to Abraham?
- Chapter 21.--It is to Be Wondered at that Men Should Rather Trust to Their Own Weakness Than to God's Strength.
- Chapter 22.--God's Promise is Sure.
- Chapter 23 [XII.]--Remarkable Illustrations of Grace and Predestination in Infants, and in Christ.
- Chapter 24.--That No One is Judged According to What He Would Have Done If He Had Lived Longer.
- Chapter 25 [XIII.]--Possibly the Baptized Infants Would Have Repented If They Had Lived, and the Unbaptized Not.
- Chapter 26 [XIV]--Reference to Cyprian's Treatise "On the Mortality."
- Chapter 27.--The Book of Wisdom Obtains in the Church the Authority of Canonical Scripture.
- Chapter 28.--Cyprian's Treatise "On the Mortality."
- Chapter 29.--God's Dealing Does Not Depend Upon Any Contingent Merits of Men.
- Chapter 30 [XV.]--The Most Illustrious Instance of Predestination is Christ Jesus.
- Chapter 31.--Christ Predestinated to Be the Son of God.
- Chapter 32 [XVI.]--The Twofold Calling.
- Chapter 33.--It is in the Power of Evil Men to Sin; But to Do This or That by Means of that Wickedness is in God's Power Alone.
- Chapter 34 [XVII.]--The Special Calling of the Elect is Not Because They Have Believed, But in Order that They May Believe.
- Chapter 35 [XVIII.]--Election is for the Purpose of Holiness.
- Chapter 36.--God Chose the Righteous; Not Those Whom He Foresaw as Being of Themselves, But Those Whom He Predestinated for the Purpose of Making So.
- Chapter 37.--We Were Elected and Predestinated, Not Because We Were Going to Be Holy, But in Order that We Might Be So.
- Chapter 38 [XIX.]--What is the View of the Pelagians, and What of the Semi-Pelagians, Concerning Predestination.
- Chapter 39--The Beginning of Faith is God's Gift.
- Chapter 40 [XX.]--Apostolic Testimony to the Beginning of Faith Being God's Gift.
- Chapter 41.--Further Apostolic Testimonies.
- Chapter 42.--Old Testament Testimonies.
- Chapter 43 [XXI.]--Conclusion.