Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
Classic translation
5th c. · Polemics & Heresiology · English translation, 1890
Source edition: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I (ed. Philip Schaff, 1886–90)
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Contents
Introduction & Notes
Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
- Preface
- Who Faustus Was. Faustus’s Object in Writing the Polemical Treatise That Forms…
- Faustus Claims to Believe the Gospel, Yet Refuses to Accept the Genealogical…
- Faustus Objects to the Incarnation of God on the Ground That the Evangelists…
- Faustus’s Reasons for Rejecting the Old Testament, and Augustin’s…
- Faustus Claims That the Manichæans and Not the Catholics Are Consistent…
- Faustus Avows His Disbelief in the Old Testament and His Disregard of its…
- The Genealogical Question is Again Taken up and Argued on Both Sides
- Faustus Maintains That to Hold to the Old Testament After the Giving of the New…
- Faustus Argues That if the Apostles Born Under the Old Covenant Could Lawfully…
- Faustus Insists That the Old Testament Promises Are Radically Different From…
- Faustus Quotes Passages to Show That the Apostle Paul Abandoned Belief in the…
- Faustus Denies That the Prophets Predicted Christ. Augustin Proves Such…
- Faustus Asserts That Even if the Old Testament Could Be Shown to Contain…
- Faustus Abhors Moses for the Awful Curse He Has Pronounced Upon Christ…
- Faustus Rejects the Old Testament Because it Leaves No Room for Christ. Christ…
- Faustus Willing to Believe Not Only That the Jewish but That All Gentile…
- Faustus Rejects Christ’s Declaration That He Came Not to Destroy the Law and…
- The Relation of Christ to Prophecy, Continued
- Faustus is Willing to Admit That Christ May Have Said That He Came Not to…
- Faustus Repels the Charge of Sun-worship, and Maintains That While the…
- Faustus Denies That Manichæans Believe in Two Gods. Hyle No God. Augustin…
- Faustus States His Objections to the Morality of the Law and the Prophets, and…
- Faustus Recurs to the Genealogical Difficulty and Insists That Even According…
- Faustus Explains the Manichæan Denial That Man Was Made by God as Applying to…
- Faustus Seeks to Bring Into Ridicule the Orthodox Claim to Believe in the…
- Faustus Insists That Jesus Might Have Died Though Not Born, by the Exercise of…
- Faustus Warns Against Pressing Too Far the Argument, That if Jesus Was Not Born…
- Faustus Recurs to the Genealogy and Insists Upon Examining it as Regards its…
- Faustus Seeks to Justify the Docetism of the Manichæans. Augustin Insists That…
- Faustus Repels the Insinuation That the Prophecy of Paul With Reference to…
- The Scripture Passage: ‘To the Pure All Things Are Pure, but to the Impure and…
- Faustus Fails to Understand Why He Should Be Required Either to Accept or…
- Faustus Does Not Think it Would Be a Great Honor to Sit Down With Abraham…