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 IV
ST. AUGUSTINE:
THE WRITINGS AGAINST THE MANICHÆANS,
AND
AGAINST THE DONATISTS
BUFFALO:
THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY
1887
THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY
This fourth volume of St. Augustin’s Works contains his polemical writings in vindication of the Catholic Church against the heresy of the Manichæans, and the schism of the Donatists. The former are contained in Tom. II. and VIII., the latter in Tom. IX., of the Benedictine edition.
Like the preceding volumes, this also is more than a reprint of older translations, and contains important additions not previously published.
I.—Seven Writings Against the Manichæan Heresy. Four of these were translated by the Rev. Richard Stothert, of Bombay, for Dr. Dods’ edition, published by T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872, and revised by Dr. Albert H. Newman, of Toronto, for the American edition. The other three treatises are translated, I believe for the first time, by Dr. Newman for this edition. (See Contents.)
The Edinburgh translation, especially of the first two treatises, is sufficiently faithful and idiomatic, and needed very little alteration by the American editor, who compared it sentence by sentence with the Latin original, and made changes only where they seemed necessary.
This part of the volume is also enriched by an introductory essay of Dr. Newman, which embodies the literature and the results of the most recent as well as the earlier researches concerning that anti-Christian heresy.
II.—The Writings Against the Donatists. These were well translated by the Rev. J. R. King, of Oxford, and are slightly revised by Dr. Hartranft, of Hartford, after a careful comparison with the Latin.
The literary introduction of Dr. Hartranft, in connection with the translator’s historical preface, will place the reader in the situation of the controversy between the Catholic Church and the Donatists at the time of St. Augustin.
In both sections the treatises are arranged in chronological order.
The fifth volume will contain the writings of St. Augustin against the Pelagians and Semi-Pelagians. It is in the hands of the printer and will be published in October.
PHILIP SCHAFF.
New York, June. I887.
Volume IV
Augustine—Anti-Manichæan Writings
Introductory Essay on the Manichæan Heresy,
Preface to the Anti-Manichæan Writings
Of the Morals of the Catholic Church
On the Morals of the Manichæans
Concerning Two Souls, against the Manichæans
Acts or Disputation against Fortunatus, the Manichæan
Against the Epistle of Manichæus Called Fundamental
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About Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.4: St. Augustin: The Writings against the Manichaeans and against the DonatistsNicene and Post Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume IV: St. Augustin: The Writings against the Manichaeans and against the Donatists. 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. Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series IV Augustine of Hippo Of the Morals of the Catholic Church On the Morals of the Manichæans Concerning Two Souls, against the Manichæans Acts or Disputation against Fortunatus, the Manichæan Against the Epistle of Manichæus Called Fundamental Reply to Faustus the Manichæan Concerning the Nature of Good, against the Manichæans On Baptism, against the Donatists In Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist, Bishop of Cirta A Treatise concerning the Correction of the Donatists (Letter 185) |
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