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Against the Epistle of Manichaeus Called Fundamental

Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.4

1. To Heal Heretics is Better Than to Destroy Them
2. Why the Manichaeans Should Be More Gently Dealt with
3. Augustin Once a Manichaean
4. Proofs of the Catholic Faith
5. Against the Title of the Epistle of Manichaeus
6. Why Manichaeus Called Himself an Apostle of Christ
In What Sense the Followers of Manichaeus Believe Him to Be the Holy Spirit
8. The Festival of the Birth-Day of Manichaeus
9. When the Holy Spirit Was Sent
10. The Holy Spirit Twice Given
11. Manichaeus Promises Truth, But Does Not Make Good His Word
The Wild Fancies of Manichæus. The Battle Before the Constitution of the World
Two Opposite Substances. The Kingdom of Light. Manichaeus Teaches Uncertainties Instead…
Manichaeus Promises the Knowledge of Undoubted Things, and Then Demands Faith in Doubtful…
The Doctrine of Manichaeus Not Only Uncertain, But False. His Absurd Fancy of a Land and…
The Soul, Though Mutable, Has No Material Form. It is All Present in Every Part of the…
The Memory Contains the Ideas of Places of the Greatest Size
The Understanding Judges of the Truth of Things, and of Its Own Action
19. If the Mind Has No Material Extension, Much Less Has God
20. Refutation of the Absurd Idea of Two Territories
This Region of Light Must Be Material If It is Joined to the Region of Darkness. The…
22. The Form of the Region of Light the Worse of the Two
23. The Anthropomorphites Not So Bad as the Manichaeans
24. Of the Number of Natures in the Manichaean Fiction
Omnipotence Creates Good Things Differing in Degree, in Every Description Whatsoever of…
The Manichaeans are Reduced to the Choice of a Tortuous, or Curved, or Straight Line of…
The Beauty of the Straight Line Might Be Taken from the Region of Darkness Without Taking…
28. Manichaeus Places Five Natures in the Region of Darkness
29. The Refutation of This Absurdity
The Number of Good Things in Those Natures Which Manichaeus Places in the Region of…
31. The Same Subject Continued
Manichaeus Got the Arrangement of His Fanciful Notions from Visible Objects
33. Every Nature, as Nature, is Good
Nature Cannot Be Without Some Good. The Manichaeans Dwell Upon the Evils
Evil Alone is Corruption. Corruption is Not Nature, But Contrary to Nature. Corruption…
36. The Source of Evil or of Corruption of Good
37. God Alone Perfectly Good
38. Nature Made by God; Corruption Comes from Nothing
39. In What Sense Evils are from God
40. Corruption Tends to Non-Existence
41. Corruption is by God’s Permission, and Comes from Us
42. Exhortation to the Chief Good
43. Conclusion