NPNF1-02. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine

NPNF1-02. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian
Doctrine
That from the Disputation of Varro, It Follows that the Worshippers of the
Gods Regard Human Things as More Ancient Than Divine Things.. . . . p. 168
Concerning the Three Kinds of Theology According to Varro, Namely,
One Fabulous, the Other Natural, the Third Civil.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 170
Concerning the Mythic, that Is, the Fabulous, Theology, and the Civil,
Against Varro.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 171
Concerning the Likeness and Agreement of the Fabulous and Civil
Theologies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 173
Concerning the Interpretations, Consisting of Natural Explanations, Which
the Pagan Teachers Attempt to Show for Their Gods.. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 174
Concerning the Special Offices of the Gods.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 176
Concerning the Liberty of Seneca, Who More Vehemently Censured the
Civil Theology Than Varro Did the Fabulous.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 178
What Seneca Thought Concerning the Jews.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 180
That When Once the Vanity of the Gods of the Nations Has Been
Exposed, It Cannot Be Doubted that They are Unable to Bestow Eternal
Life on Any One, When They Cannot Afford Help Even with Respect to
the Things Of this Temporal Life.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 181
Of the ‘select gods’ of the civil theology, and that eternal life is not obtained
by worshipping them.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 181
Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 182
Whether, Since It is Evident that Deity is Not to Be Found in the Civil
Theology, We are to Believe that It is to Be Found in the Select
Gods.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 182
Who are the Select Gods, and Whether They are Held to Be Exempt from
the Offices of the Commoner Gods.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 183
How There is No Reason Which Can Be Shown for the Selection of
Certain Gods, When the Administration of More Exalted Offices is
Assigned to Many Inferior Gods.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 183
The Inferior Gods, Whose Names are Not Associated with Infamy, Have
Been Better Dealt with Than the Select Gods, Whose Infamies are
Celebrated.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 186
Concerning the More Secret Doctrine of the Pagans, and Concerning the
Physical Interpretations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 187
Concerning the Opinion of Varro, that God is the Soul of the World, Which
Nevertheless, in Its Various Parts, Has Many Souls Whose Nature is
Divine.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 188
Whether It is Reasonable to Separate Janus and Terminus as Two Distinct
Deities.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 188
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Philip Schaff