Title: NPNF1-04. Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists Creator(s): Schaff, Philip (1819-1893) (Editor) Print Basis: New York: The Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890 Rights: Public Domain CCEL Subjects: All; Proofed; Early Church LC Call no: BR60 LC Subjects:
Christianity
Early Christian Literature. Fathers of the Church, etc.
A SELECT LIBRARY
OF THE
NICENE AND
POST-NICENE FATHERS
OF
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
EDITED BY
PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D.,
PROFESSOR IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK,
IN CONNECTION WITH A NUMBER OF PATRISTIC SCHOLARS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.
VOLUME IV
ST. AUGUSTIN:
THE WRITINGS AGAINST THE MANICHÆANS
AND
AGAINST THE DONATISTS
T&T CLARK
EDINBURGH
WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Editor's Preface
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This fourth volume of St. Augustin's Works contains his polemical writings in vindication of the Catholic Church against the heresy of the Manichæans, and the schism of the Donatists. The former are contained in Tom. II. and VIII., the latter in Tom. IX., of the Benedictine edition.
Like the preceding volumes, this also is more than a reprint of older translations, and contains important additions not previously published.
I.--Seven Writings Against the Manichæan Heresy. Four of these were translated by the Rev. Richard Stothert, of Bombay, for Dr. Dods' edition, published by T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872, and revised by Dr. Albert H. Newman, of Toronto, for the American edition. The other three treatises are translated, I believe for the first time, by Dr. Newman for this edition. (See Contents.)
The Edinburgh translation, especially of the first two treatises, is sufficiently faithful and idiomatic, and needed very little alteration by the American editor, who compared it sentence by sentence with the Latin original, and made changes only where they seemed necessary.
This part of the volume is also enriched by an introductory essay of Dr. Newman, which embodies the literature and the results of the most recent as well as the earlier researches concerning that anti-Christian heresy.
II.--The Writings Against the Donatists. These were well translated by the Rev. J. R. King, of Oxford, and are slightly revised by Dr. Hartranft, of Hartford, after a careful comparison with the Latin.
The literary introduction of Dr. Hartranft, in connection with the translator's historical preface, will place the reader in the situation of the controversy between the Catholic Church and the Donatists at the time of St. Augustin.
In both sections the treatises are arranged in chronological order.
The fifth volume will contain the writings of St. Augustin against the Pelagians and Semi-Pelagians. It is in the hands of the printer and will be published in October.
Philip Schaff.
New York, June, 1887.
Contents.
Preface.
I. THE ANTI-MANICHæAN WRITINGS.
Translated by the Rev. RICHARD STOTHERT, M.A., Bombay, and Prof. Albert H. Newman, D.D., LL.D., Toronto
Introductory essay on the Manichæan heresy.
By Dr. Newman.
On the Morals of the Catholic Church
(De Moribus Ecclesiæ Catholicæ),
A.D. 388.
Translated by the Rev. Richard Stothert.
On the Morals of the Manichæans
(De Moribus Manichæorum),
A.D. 388.
Translated by the Rev. Richard Stothert.
On Two Souls, against the Manichæans
(De Duabus Animabus, contra Manichæos),
A.D. 391.
Translated by Dr. Newman.
Acts or Disputation against Fortunatus the Manichæan
(Acta seu Disputatio contra Fortunatum Manichæum),
A.D. 392.
Translated by Dr. Newman.
Against the Epistle of Manichæus called Fundamental
(Contra Epistolam Manichæi quam vocant Fundamenti),
A.D. 397.
Translated by the Rev. R. Stothert.
Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
(Contra Faustus Manichæum, Libri XXXIII ),
A.D. 400.
Translated by the Rev. R. Stothert.
Concerning the nature of good, against the Manichæans
(De Natura Boni contra Manichæos),
A.D. 404.
Translated by Dr. Newman.
II. THE ANTI-donatist WRITINGS.
Translated by the Rev. J.R. King, M.A., Vicar of St. Peter's in the East, Oxford, and late Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford.
The Translation revised, with additional annotations, by the Rev. Chester D. Hartranft, D.D., Professor of Biblical and Ecclesiastical History in the Theological Seminary at Hartford, Connecticut.
Introductory to the Anti-Donatist Writings.
By Dr. Hartranft.
On Baptism, against the Donatists
(De Baptismo, contra Donatistas, Libri VII ),
Circa, A.D. 400.
Answer to Letters of Petilian, Bishop of Cirta
(Contra Litteras Petiliani Donatistæ Cirtensis Episcopi, Libri III ),
A.D. 400.
The Correction of the Donatists
(De Correctione Donatistarum Liber seu Epistola CLXXXV ),
Circa, A.D. 417.
Index to the Anti-Manichæan Writings.
Index to the Anti-Donatist Writings.
w r I t I n g s
in connection with the
Manichæan controversy
translated by the
Rev. Richard Stothert, M.A.,
Bombay;
and
Albert H. Newman, D.D., LL.D.
Professor of Church History and Comparative Religion, in Toronto
Baptist (Theological) College, Toronto, Canada.
Introductory Essay on the Manichæan Heresy,
By Albert H. Newman, D.D., LL.D.
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