Blessed Augustine of Hippo

Reply to Faustus the Manichæan

Name: Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
Author: Blessed Augustine of Hippo

5th c.

Classic translation

Polemics & Heresiology · English translation, 1890

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Title Page
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…

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