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On the Morals of the Catholic Church
Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.4
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- How the Pretensions of the Manichaeans are to Be Refuted. Two Manichaean Falsehoods
- He Begins with Arguments, in Compliance with the Mistaken Method of the Manichaeans
- Happiness is in the Enjoyment of Man’s Chief Good. Two Conditions of the Chief Good: 1st,…
- 4. Man-What?
- Man’s Chief Good is Not the Chief Good of the Body Only, But the Chief Good of the Soul
- Virtue Gives Perfection to the Soul; The Soul Obtains Virtue by Following God; Following…
- The Knowledge of God to Be Obtained from the Scripture. The Plan and Principal Mysteries…
- God is the Chief Good, Whom We are to Seek After with Supreme Affection
- Harmony of the Old and New Testament on the Precepts of Charity
- What the Church Teaches About God. The Two Gods of the Manichaeans
- God is the One Object of Love; Therefore He is Man’s Chief Good. Nothing is Better Than…
- 12. We are United to God by Love, in Subjection to Him
- 13. We are Joined Inseparably to God by Christ and His Spirit
- 14. We Cleave to the Trinity, Our Chief Good, by Love
- 15. The Christian Definition of the Four Virtues
- 16. Harmony of the Old and New Testaments
- 17. Appeal to the Manichaeans, Calling on Them to Repent
- Only in the Catholic Church is Perfect Truth Established on the Harmony of Both Testaments
- Description of the Duties of Temperance, According to the Sacred Scriptures
- We are Required to Despise All Sensible Things, and to Love God Alone
- Popular Renown and Inquisitiveness are Condemned in the Sacred Scriptures
- 22. Fortitude Comes from the Love of God
- 23. Scripture Precepts and Examples of Fortitude
- 24. Of Justice and Prudence
- Four Moral Duties Regarding the Love of God, of Which Love the Reward is Eternal Life and…
- 26. Love of Ourselves and of Our Neighbor
- 27. On Doing Good to the Body of Our Neighbor
- On Doing Good to the Soul of Our Neighbor. Two Parts of Discipline, Restraint and…
- 29. Of the Authority of the Scriptures
- The Church Apostrophised as Teacher of All Wisdom. Doctrine of the Catholic Church
- The Life of the Anachoretes and Coenobites Set Against the Continence of the Manichaeans
- 32. Praise of the Clergy
- Another Kind of Men Living Together in Cities. Fasts of Three Days
- The Church is Not to Be Blamed for the Conduct of Bad Christians, Worshippers of Tombs…
- Marriage and Property Allowed to the Baptized by the Apostles