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

NPNF1-02. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian
Doctrine
That the Doctrine of Varro Concerning Theology is in No Part Consistent
with Itself.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 206
That All Things Which the Physical Theologists Have Referred to the
World and Its Parts, They Ought to Have Referred to the One True
God.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 208
How Piety Distinguishes the Creator from the Creatures, So That, Instead
of One God, There are Not Worshipped as Many Gods as There are
Works of the One Author.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 208
What Benefits God Gives to the Followers of the Truth to Enjoy Over and
Above His General Bounty.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 209
That at No Time in the Past Was the Mystery of Christ’s Redemption
Awanting, But Was at All Times Declared, Though in Various
Forms.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 209
That Only Through the Christian Religion Could the Deceit of Malign
Spirits, Who Rejoice in the Errors of Men, Have Been Manifested.. . . . p. 210
Concerning the Books of Numa Pompilius, Which the Senate Ordered
to Be Burned, in Order that the Causes of Sacred Rights Therein Assigned
Should Not Become Known.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 210
Concerning the Hydromancy Through Which Numa Was Befooled by
Certain Images of Demons Seen in the Water.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 211
Some account of the Socratic and Platonic philosophy, and a refutation of
the doctrine of Apuleius that the demons should be worshipped as
mediators between gods and men.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 213
That the Question of Natural Theology is to Be Discussed with Those
Philosophers Who Sought a More Excellent Wisdom.. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 213
Concerning the Two Schools of Philosophers, that Is, the Italic and Ionic,
and Their Founders.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 214
Of the Socratic Philosophy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 215
Concerning Plato, the Chief Among the Disciples of Socrates, and His
Threefold Division of Philosophy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 216
That It is Especially with the Platonists that We Must Carry on Our
Disputations on Matters of Theology, Their Opinions Being Preferable to
Those of All Other Philosophers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 217
Concerning the Meaning of the Platonists in that Part of Philosophy Called
Physical.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 219
How Much the Platonists are to Be Held as Excelling Other Philosophers
in Logic, i.e. Rational Philosophy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 220
That the Platonists Hold the First Rank in Moral Philosophy Also.. . . . . p. 220
Concerning that Philosophy Which Has Come Nearest to the Christian
Faith.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 221
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Philip Schaff