Reply to Faustus the Manichæan

Saint Augustine of Hippo · the golden age of the Fathers · 33 parts

Parts

• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 1 (St. Augustine) · 5 paragraphsWho Faustus was. Faustus’s object in writing the polemical treatise that forms the basis of Augustin’s reply. Augustin’s remarks thereon.
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 2 (St. Augustine) · 13 paragraphsFaustus claims to believe the Gospel, yet refuses to accept the genealogical tables on various grounds which Augustin seeks to set aside.
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 3 (St. Augustine) · 11 paragraphsFaustus objects to the incarnation of God on the ground that the evangelists are at variance with each other, and that incarnation is unsuitable to…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 4 (St. Augustine) · 5 paragraphsFaustus’s reasons for rejecting the Old Testament, and Augustin’s animadversions thereon.
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 5 (St. Augustine) · 23 paragraphsFaustus claims that the Manichæans and not the Catholics are consistent believers in the Gospel, and seeks to establish this claim by comparing…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 6 (St. Augustine) · 28 paragraphsFaustus avows his disbelief in the Old Testament and his disregard of its precepts, and accuses Catholics of inconsistency in neglecting its…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 7 (St. Augustine) · 5 paragraphsThe genealogical question is again taken up and argued on both sides.
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 8 (St. Augustine) · 4 paragraphsFaustus maintains that to hold to the Old Testament after the giving of the New is putting new cloth on an old garment. Augustin further explains the…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 9 (St. Augustine) · 6 paragraphsFaustus argues that if the apostles born under the old covenant could lawfully depart from it, much more can he having been born a Gentile. Augustin…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 10 (St. Augustine) · 5 paragraphsFaustus insists that the Old Testament promises are radically different from those of the New. Augustin admits a difference, but maintains that the…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 11 (St. Augustine) · 22 paragraphsFaustus quotes passages to show that the Apostle Paul abandoned belief in the incarnation, to which he earlier held. Augustin shows that the apostle…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 12 (St. Augustine) · 79 paragraphsFaustus denies that the prophets predicted Christ. Augustin proves such prediction from the New Testament, and expounds at length the principal types…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 13 (St. Augustine) · 37 paragraphsFaustus asserts that even if the Old Testament could be shown to contain predictions, it would be of interest only to the Jews, pagan literature…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 14 (St. Augustine) · 21 paragraphsFaustus abhors Moses for the awful curse he has pronounced upon Christ. Augustin expounds the Christian doctrine of the suffering Saviour by…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 15 (St. Augustine) · 34 paragraphsFaustus rejects the Old Testament because it leaves no room for Christ. Christ the one Bridegroom suffices for His Bride the Church. Augustin answers…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 16 (St. Augustine) · 72 paragraphsFaustus willing to believe not only that the Jewish but that all Gentile prophets wrote of Christ, if it should be proved; but he would none the less…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 17 (St. Augustine) · 14 paragraphsFaustus rejects Christ’s declaration that He came not to destroy the law and the prophets but to fulfill them, on the ground that it is found only in…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 18 (St. Augustine) · 12 paragraphsThe relation of Christ to prophecy, continued.
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 19 (St. Augustine) · 65 paragraphsFaustus is willing to admit that Christ may have said that He came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them; but if He did, it…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 20 (St. Augustine) · 55 paragraphsFaustus repels the charge of sun-worship, and maintains that while the Manichæans believe that God’s power dwells in the sun and his wisdom in the…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 21 (St. Augustine) · 37 paragraphsFaustus denies that Manichæans believe in two gods. Hyle no god. Augustin discusses at large the doctrine of God and Hyle, and fixes the charge of…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 22 (St. Augustine) · 188 paragraphsFaustus states his objections to the morality of the law and the prophets, and Augustin seeks by the application of the type and the allegory to…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 23 (St. Augustine) · 16 paragraphsFaustus recurs to the genealogical difficulty and insists that even according to Matthew Jesus was not Son of God until His baptism. Augustin sets…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 24 (St. Augustine) · 11 paragraphsFaustus explains the Manichæan denial that man was made by God as applying to the fleshly man not to the spiritual. Augustin elucidates the Apostle…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 25 (St. Augustine) · 6 paragraphsFaustus seeks to bring into ridicule the orthodox claim to believe in the infinity of God by caricaturing the anthropomorphic representations of the…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 26 (St. Augustine) · 17 paragraphsFaustus insists that Jesus might have died though not born, by the exercise of divine power, yet he rejects birth and death alike. Augustin maintains…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 27 (St. Augustine) · 3 paragraphsFaustus warns against pressing too far the argument, that if Jesus was not born He cannot have suffered. Augustin accepts the birth and death alike…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 28 (St. Augustine) · 9 paragraphsFaustus recurs to the genealogy and insists upon examining it as regards its consistency with itself. Augustin takes his stand on Scripture authority…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 29 (St. Augustine) · 7 paragraphsFaustus seeks to justify the docetism of the Manichæans. Augustin insists that there is nothing disgraceful in being born.
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 30 (St. Augustine) · 15 paragraphsFaustus repels the insinuation that the prophecy of Paul with reference to those that should forbid to marry, abstain from meats, etc., applies to…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 31 (St. Augustine) · 8 paragraphsThe scripture passage: "To the pure all things are pure, but to the impure and defiled is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience are…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 32 (St. Augustine) · 38 paragraphsFaustus fails to understand why he should be required either to accept or reject the New Testament as a whole, while the Catholics accept or reject…
• Reply to Faustus the Manichæan — Book 33 (St. Augustine) · 20 paragraphsFaustus does not think it would be a great honor to sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, whose moral characters as set forth in the Old Testament…