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.
LOGOS CATHOLIC EDITION
Containing Only the Words of the Fathers
and Translator’s Notes
VOLUME III
ST. AUGUSTINE:
ON THE HOLY TRINITY
DOCTRINAL TREATISES
MORAL TREATISES
BUFFALO:
THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY
1887
THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY
Volume III
On the Catechising of the Uninstructed
A Treatise on Faith and the Creed
Concerning Faith of Things Not Seen
On the Creed: a Sermon to the Catechumens
On Care to Be Had for the Dead
On the Trinity
[de trinitate, libri xv.]
translated by the
Rev. Arthur west Haddan, B.D.,
hon. canon of worcester, and rector of barton-on-the-heath, warwickshire.
revised and annotated, with an introductory essay,
by
William G. T. Shedd, D.D.,
roosevelt professor of systematic theology in union theological seminary, new york.
in which the unity and equality of the supreme trinity is established from the sacred scriptures, and some texts alleged against the equality of the son are explained.
chap. 1.—this work is written against those who sophistically assail the faith of the trinity, through misuse of reason. they who dispute concerning god err from a threefold cause. holy scripture, removing what is false, leads us on by degrees to things divine. what true immortality is. we are nourished by faith, that we may be enabled to apprehend things divine.
1. The following dissertation concerning the Trinity, as the reader ought to be informed, has been written in order to guard against the sophistries of those who disdain to begin with faith, and are deceived by a crude and perverse love of reason. Now one class of such men endeavor to transfer to things incorporeal and spiritual the ideas they have formed, whether through experience of the bodily senses, or by natural human wit and diligent quickness, or by the aid of art, from things corporeal; so as to seek to measure and conceive of the former by the latter. Others, again, frame whatever sentiments they may have concerning God according to the nature or affections of the human mind; and through this error they govern their discourse, in disputing concerning God, by distorted and fallacious rules. While yet a third class strive indeed to transcend the whole creation, which doubtless is changeable, in order to raise their thought to the unchangeable substance, which is God; but being weighed down by the burden of mortality, whilst they ...
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About Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.3: St. Augustin: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises (Catholic Edition)Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume III: St. Augustin: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era. The Catholic edition of Early Church Fathers does not include the introductions, prolegomenae, and various interpretive comments made by the protestant editors of the Edinburgh edition. However, it retains all of the footnotes found in the printed editions. Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series III Augustine of Hippo On the Holy Trinity The Enchiridion On the Catechising of the Uninstructed A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Concerning Faith of Things Not Seen On the Profit of Believing On the Creed: A Sermon to the Catechumens On Continence On the Good of Marriage Of Holy Virginity On the Good of Widowhood On Lying Against Lying Of the Work of Monks On Patience On Care to Be Had for the Dead |
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