Scholars long recognize the important contribution of Manichaeism to the thinking of St. Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo (354-430). This book is an attempt to magnify how that influence shapes the theme of Good and Evil. The focus of this investigation is Augustine's earlier writings, composed prior to 400 A.D. Although written from a historical perspective, this work has implication to systematic theology on the predestination issue. It concludes that the concept of determinism, in Augustine's notion of predestination, is not a simple biblical derivation. Instead, the concept emerges from his wrestling with the Manichaean cosmological concern when dealing with the question of personal evil.
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"This book ... opens several new vistas, relating to impressions Augustine acquired from Manichaeism and how those impressions helped shape his own thinking in ways more than merely polemical. It should be axiomatic that one cannot know Augustine without knowing Manichaeism, and one hopes that Kam-lun Edwin Lee's study will help make it so." -- From the Foreword by J. Kevin Coyle, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada
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Although Augustine was never fully initiated into Manichaeism, he is credited by scholars with knowing it reasonably well. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
summus modus, unde sit malum, lre serie, beata uita, uera religione, epistulam fundamenti, natura boni, tranquil pleasure, voluntary defection, personal evil, moribus manichaeorum, human good will, sermone domini, tranquil enjoyment, massa damnata, supreme existence, moribus ecclesiae catholicae, contra manichaeos, strong sexual overtone, summum bonum, etudes augustiniennes, human fallenness, vie heureuse, beata vita, vera religione Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Contra Fortunatum, Saint Augustine, Catholic Church, Epistula Fundamenti, The De Natura Boni, Augustinian Studies, Augustine of Hippo, Desclee de Brouwer, Early Interpretation, Father of Light, New York, Old Testament, Patristic Studies, Book One, Clarendon Press, Concupiscentia Sexualis, Contra Faustum, Development of the Idea of Habit, God the Father, Studia Patristica, Viailiae Christianae, While Augustine New!
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Although Augustine was never fully initiated into Manichaeism, he is credited by scholars with knowing it reasonably well. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
summus modus, unde sit malum, lre serie, beata uita, uera religione, epistulam fundamenti, natura boni, tranquil pleasure, voluntary defection, personal evil, moribus manichaeorum, human good will, sermone domini, tranquil enjoyment, massa damnata, supreme existence, moribus ecclesiae catholicae, contra manichaeos, strong sexual overtone, summum bonum, etudes augustiniennes, human fallenness, vie heureuse, beata vita, vera religione Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Contra Fortunatum, Saint Augustine, Catholic Church, Epistula Fundamenti, The De Natura Boni, Augustinian Studies, Augustine of Hippo, Desclee de Brouwer, Early Interpretation, Father of Light, New York, Old Testament, Patristic Studies, Book One, Clarendon Press, Concupiscentia Sexualis, Contra Faustum, Development of the Idea of Habit, God the Father, Studia Patristica, Viailiae Christianae, While Augustine New!
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- Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (New Edition, with an Epilogue) by Peter Brown on 6 pages
- Anti-Pelagian Writings [A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church - Volume V] (v. 5) by St. Augustine on 5 pages
- Augustine on Evil by Gillian R. Evans on 4 pages
- The Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine - Four Anti-Pelagian Writings by St. Augustine on page 184, and Back Matter
- Augustine the Theologian by Eugene Teselle in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Rethinking Augustine's Early Theology: An Argument for Continuity by Carol Harrison in Back Matter
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