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VOLUME IV
ST. AUGUSTIN:
THE WRITINGS AGAINST THE MANICHÆANS
AND
AGAINST THE DONATISTS
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Volume IV
Editor's Preface
Augustine-Anti-Manichaean Writings
Introductory Essay on the Manichaean Heresy,
Preface to the Anti-Manichaean Writings
Of the Morals of the Catholic Church
On the Morals of the Manichaeans
Concerning Two Souls, Against the Manichaeans
Acts or Disputation Against Fortunatus, the Manichaean
Disputation of the First Day
Disputation of the Second Day
Against the Epistle of Manichaeus Called Fundamental
Reply to Faustus the Manichaean
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Book XI
Book XII
Book XIII
Book XIV
Book XV
Book XVI
Book XVII
Book XVIII
Book XIX
Book XX
Book XXI
Book XXII
Book XXIII
Book XXIV
Book XXV
Book XXVI
Book XXVII
Book XXVIII
Book XXIX
Book XXX
Book XXXI
Book XXXII
Book XXXIII
Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans
Augustine-Anti-Donatist Writings
Introductory Essay
Preface
On Baptism, Against the Donatists
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
In Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist, Bishop of Cirta
Book I
Book II
Book III
A Treatise Concerning the Correction of the Donatists
Editor's Preface
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This fourth volume of St. Augustine's Works contains his polemical writings in vindication of the Catholic Church against the heresy of the Manichaeans, 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 Manichaean 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. Augustine.
In both sections the treatises are arranged in chronological order.
The fifth volume will contain the writings of St. Augustine 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. I887.
