De dono perseuerantiae (CCEL)
A Treatise on the gift of perseverance
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 355
Datum
5. Jh.
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Inhaltsangabe
- A Treatise on the gift of perseverance
- Chapter 1 [I.]--Of the Nature of the Perseverance Here Discoursed of.
- Chapter 2 [II.]--Faith is the Beginning of a Christian Man. Martyrdom for Christ's Sake is His Best Ending.
- Chapter 3.--God is Besought for It, Because It is His Gift.
- Chapter 4.--Three Leading Points of the Pelagian Doctrine.
- Chapter 5.--The Second Petition in the Lord's Prayer.
- Chapter 6 [III.]--The Third Petition. How Heaven and Earth are Understood in the Lord's Prayer.
- Chapter 7 [IV.]--The Fourth Petition.
- Chapter 8 [V.]--The Fifth Petition. It is an Error of the Pelagians that the Righteous are Free from Sin.
- Chapter 9.--When Perseverance is Granted to a Person, He Cannot But Persevere.
- Chapter 10 [VI.]--The Gift of Perseverance Can Be Obtained by Prayer.
- Chapter 11.--Effect of Prayer for Perseverance.
- Chapter 12.--Of His Own Will a Man Forsakes God, So that He is Deservedly Forsaken of Him.
- Chapter 13 [VII.]--Temptation the Condition of Man.
- Chapter 14.--It is God's Grace Both that Man Comes to Him, and that Man Does Not Depart from Him.
- Chapter 15.--Why God Willed that He Should Be Asked for that Which He Might Give Without Prayer.
- Chapter 16 [VIII.]--Why is Not Grace Given According to Merit?
- Chapter 17.--The Difficulty of the Distinction Made in the Choice of One and the Rejection of Another.
- Chapter 18.--But Why Should One Be Punished More Than Another?
- Chapter 19.--Why Does God Mingle Those Who Will Persevere with Those Who Will Not?
- Chapter 20.--Ambrose on God's Control Over Men's Thoughts.
- Chapter 21 [IX.]--Instances of the Unsearchable Judgments of God.
- Chapter 22.--It is an Absurdity to Say that the Dead Will Be Judged for Sins Which They Would Have Committed If They Had Lived.
- Chapter 23.--Why for the People of Tyre and Sidon, Who Would Have Believed, the Miracles Were Not Done Which Were Done in Other Places Which Did Not Believe.
- Chapter 24 [X.]--It May Be Objected that The People of Tyre and Sidon Might, If They Had Heard, Have Believed, and Have Subsequently Lapsed from Their Faith.
- Chapter 25 [XI.]--God's Ways, Both in Mercy and Judgment, Past Finding Out.
- Chapter 26.--The Manicheans Do Not Receive All the Books of the Old Testament, and of the New Only Those that They Choose.
- Chapter 27.--Reference to the "Retractations."
- Chapter 28 [XII.]--God's Goodness and Righteousness Shown in All.
- Chapter 29.--God's True Grace Could Be Defended Even If There Were No Original Sin, as Pelagius Maintains.
- Chapter 30.--Augustin Claims the Right to Grow in Knowledge.
- Chapter 31.--Infants are Not Judged According to that Which They are Foreknown as Likely to Do If They Should Live.
- Chapter 32 [XIII.]--The Inscrutability of God's Free Purposes.
- Chapter 33.--God Gives Both Initiatory and Persevering Grace According to His Own Will.
- Chapter 34 [XIV.]--The Doctrine of Predestination Not Opposed to the Advantage of Preaching.
- Chapter 35.--What Predestination is.
- Chapter 36.--The Preaching of the Gospel and the Preaching of Predestination the Two Parts of One Message.
- Chapter 37.--Ears to Hear are a Willingness to Obey.
- Chapter 38 [XV.]--Against the Preaching of Predestination the Same Objections May Be Alleged as Against Predestination.
- Chapter 39 [XVI]--Prayer and Exhortation.
- Chapter 40.--When the Truth Must Be Spoken, When Kept Back.
- Chapter 41.--Predestination Defined as Only God's Disposing of Events in His Foreknowledge.
- Chapter 42.--The Adversaries Cannot Deny Predestination to Those Gifts of Grace Which They Themselves Acknowledge, and Their Exhortations are Not Hindered by This Predestination Nevertheless.
- Chapter 43.--Further Development of the Foregoing Argument.
- Chapter 44.--Exhortation to Wisdom, Though Wisdom is God's Gift.
- Chapter 45.--Exhortation to Other Gifts of God in Like Manner.
- Chapter 46.--A Man Who Does Not Persevere Fails by His Own Fault.
- Chapter 47.--Predestination is Sometimes Signified Under the Name of Foreknowledge.
- Chapter 48 [XIX.]--Practice of Cyprian and Ambrose.
- Chapter 49.--Further References to Cyprian and Ambrose.
- Chapter 50.--Obedience Not Discouraged by Preaching God's Gifts.
- Chapter 51 [XX.]--Predestination Must Be Preached.
- Chapter 52.--Previous Writings Anticipatively Refuted the Pelagian Heresy.
- Chapter 53.--Augustin's "Confessions."
- Chapter 54 [XXI.]--Beginning and End of Faith is of God.
- Chapter 55.--Testimony of His Previous Writings and Letters.
- Chapter 56.--God Gives Means as Well as End.
- Chapter 57 [XXII.]--How Predestination Must Be Preached So as Not to Give Offence.
- Chapter 58.--The Doctrine to Be Applied with Discrimination.
- Chapter 59.--Offence to Be Avoided.
- Chapter 60.--The Application to the Church in General.
- Chapter 61.--Use of the Third Person Rather Than the Second.
- Chapter 62.--Prayer to Be Inculcated, Nevertheless.
- Chapter 63 [XXIII.]--The Testimony of the Whole Church in Her Prayers.
- Chapter 64.--In What Sense the Holy Spirit Solicits for Us, Crying, Abba, Father.
- Chapter 65.--The Church's Prayers Imply the Church's Faith.
- Chapter 66 [XXIV.]--Recapitulation and Exhortation.
- Chapter 67.--The Most Eminent Instance of Predestination is Christ Jesus.
- Chapter 68.--Conclusion.