TY  - BOOK
AU  - Augustine,Saint
AU  - Gallagher,Donald A.
AU  - Gallagher,Idella J.
TI  - The Catholic and Manichaean Ways of Life
T2  - The Fathers of the Church: a New Translation Series
SN  - 9780813211565
AV  - BR60.F3 -- A8143 1966eb 
U1  - 273.2 
PY  - 1966///
CY  - Washington, D. C.
PB  - Catholic University of America Press
KW  - Manichaeism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Book One: The Way of Life of the Catholic Church -- 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 in the Sacred Scriptures. -- 22. The love of God produces fortitude. -- 23. Counsels and examples of fortitude drawn from the Scriptures. -- 24. Justice and Prudence. -- 25. The four virtues in their relation to the love of God. The reward of this love is eternal life and the knowledge of truth. -- 26. Love of ourselves and of our neighbor. -- 27. Doing good for our neighbor's body. -- 28. Doing good for our neighbor's soul. The two parts of discipline: coercion and instruction. Through good conduct, we come to a knowledge of the truth. -- 29. The authority of the Sacred Scriptures. -- 30. Apostrophe to the Church, teacher of all wisdom. The doctrine of the Catholic Church. -- 31. The continence of the Manichaeans compared with the life of the Anchorites and Cenobites. -- 32. Praise of the clergy. -- 33. Another kind of communal living found in the city. Three-day fasts. -- 34. The Church should not be blamed for the conduct of bad Christians. Worshipers of tombs and pictures. -- 35. Even the baptized were permitted by the Apostle to marry and have possessions. -- Book Two: The Way of Life of the Manichaeans -- 1. The supreme good is that which possesses supreme existence. -- 2. What evil is. The Manichaeans speak the truth when they say evil is that which is contrary to nature, but in saying this they overthrow their own heresy. -- 3. If evil be defined as that which is harmful, the Manichaeans are again refuted. -- 4. The difference between that which is good in itself and that which is good by participation. -- 5. Even if evil be defined as corruption, the Manichaean heresy is completely undermined. -- 6. What corruption affects and what it is; 7. The goodness of God prevents anything from being brought by corruption to the point of not being. The difference between creating and forming. -- 8. Evil is not a substance but an incompatibility harmful to substance. -- 9. The inconsistency of certain Manichaean fables concerning good and evil things. -- 10. Three false moral symbols invented by the Manichaeans. -- 11. What sort of thing the symbol of the mouth must be for the Manichaeans when they are guilty of blaspheming God. -- 12. The Manichaeans have no way out of their dilemma. -- 13. An action must be judged, not by outward appearance, but by the intention. We must keep this in mind in passing judgment on the abstinence of the Manichaeans. -- 14. Three praiseworthy reasons for abstaining from certain kinds of food. -- 15. Why the Manichaeans prohibit the eating of meat. -- 16. The monstrous mysteries of the Manichaeans are exposed. -- 17. The Manichaean symbol of the hands. -- 18. The symbol of the breast and the vile mysteries of the Manichaeans. -- 19. The disgraceful actions of the Manichaeans. -- Indices -- General Index -- Index of Holy Scripture
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