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xx, 407 pages ; 22 cm Bibliography: p. xix-xx Book 1: Augustine proposes to defend the doctrine of original sin set forth in book 1 of de nuptiis et concupiscentia, against Bishop Julian, who had attacked it in four volumes and who had called its defenders Manichaeans. Such a charge would fall, therefore, upon the most famous of the fathers, Greek and Latin, as Augustine shows by citing their own testimony, with particular explanation of passages from Basil and John Chrysostom which Julian believes favor his view. Actually, it is certain rash statements of Julian that strongly support the Manichaean heresy -- Book 2: Augustine refutes the five arguments of the Pelagians against original sin from the pronouncements of earlier famous Church authorities: the ten illustrious bishops -- Irenaeus, Reticius, Olympius, Hilary, Gregory Nazianzen, Ambrose, Basil, John of Constantinople, Innocent, and Jerome -- Augustine answers Book 1 of Julian so that it becomes clear that, although the true and good God is the Creator of men, and marriage is a good and is instituted by God, yet the concupiscence by which the flesh lusts against the spirit is evil. Conjugal modesty uses this evil well, and

Author

Matthew A. Schumacher

Publisher

New York: Fathers of the Church, Inc.

Published

1957

Language

EN

Subjects

Religion, Christian