SAINT AUGUSTINE

THE CATHOLIC AND MANICHAEAN WAYS OF LIFE

(de moribus ecclesiae catholicae et de moribus manichaeorum)

Translated by

DONALD A. GALLAGHER, Ph.D.

and

IDELLA J. GALLAGHER, Ph.D.

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

the catholic university of america press

Washington, D.C. 20017

Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 66-11337

ISBN: 978-0-8132-1568-6 (pbk)

Copyright © 1966 by

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS, INC.

All rights reserved

First paperback reprint 2008

THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH

A NEW TRANSLATION

EDITORIAL BOARD

Roy Joseph Deferrari

The Catholic University of America

Editorial Director

Sister M. Josephine Brennan, I.H.M.

Marywood College

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

BOOK ONE

the way of life of the catholic church

Chapter

1 How the pretenses of the Manichaeans are to be exposed. Two ways in which the Manichaeans deceive

2 He begins with reason rather than authority, in compliance with the faulty method of the Manichaeans

3 Happiness lies in the enjoyment of man’s supreme good. The conditions of this good: (1) that nothing is better than it; (2) that it cannot be lost against one’s will

4 What is man?

5 Man’s supreme good is not the supreme good of the body alone, but the supreme good of the soul

6 Virtue perfects the soul. The soul acquires virtue by following after God. To follow after God is to achieve the happy life

7 In seeking to know God, we must appeal to the authority of the Scriptures. The plan and principal mysteries of the divine economy with reference to our salvation. A summary of the faith

8 God is the supreme good whom we must strive after with perfect love

9 The harmony between the Old and the New Testaments on the precept of the love of God

10 What the Church teaches about God. The two gods of the Manichaeans

11 God alone should be loved, and, therefore, He is man’s supreme good. Nothing is better than God. We cannot lose God against our will

12 We are united to God by love when we are subject to Him

13 Through Christ and His Spirit, we are joined inseparably to God

14 It is by love that we adhere to our supreme good, which is the Holy Trinity

15 The Christian definition of the four virtues

16 The harmony of the Old and New Testaments

17 An appeal to the Manichaeans to come to their senses

18 Only in the Catholic Church is there to be found perfect truth in the harmony of both Testaments

19 Temperance as described in the Sacred Scriptures

20 We are commanded to disdain all sensible things and to love God alone

21 Human glory and curiosity are condemned ...