The Essential AugustineAugustineLabel: Hackett Publishing Co IncDescription: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition. I. THE MAN AND HIS WRITINGS: How Augustine Came to the Episcopacy (Sermon 355 2); Augustine Chooses Eraclius as His Successor (Letter 213 1 5 & 6); Augustine on His Own Writings (Retractations Prol. I 1-3). II. FAITH AND REASON: Belief is Volitional Consent (On the Spirit and Letter 21 54; 34 60); To Believe Is to Think with Assent (Predestination of the Saints 5); Believing and Understanding (On Free Choice II 2 4-6); Authority and Reason (Against the Academics III 20 43); Two Ways to Knowledge (On Order II 9 26-27); Reason and Authority in Manicheism (Value of Believing 1-4); The Relation of Authority to Reason (True Religion 24 45 -- 25 47); If I Am Deceived I Am Alive (City of God XI 26); I Know that I Am Alive (The Trinity XV 12 21-22); Knowledge and Wisdom (The Trinity XII 14 21 -- 15 25); Error and Ignorance (Enchiridion 17). III. THREE LEVELS OF REALITY: Creator Human Soul Body (Questions for Simplicianus I 2 18); Natures on Three Levels (Letter 18 2); Soul Ruled by God Rules Its Body (On Music VI 5 12-13); Soul: Above the Sensible Below God (True Religion 3. 3); God Mutable Spirits and Bodies (Nature of the Good 1-25); Divine Psychic and Bodily Nature (City of God VIII 5-6); Causality: Divine Psychic and Bodily (City of God V 9); Divine Ideas as Prototypes (Eighty-Three Different Questions 46 1-2); God Set Spiritual Creation Above the Corporeal (Literal Commentary on Genesis VIII 20 39; 25 46; 26 48); Evil: the Privation of the Good (Enchiridion 10-12). IV. MAN’S SOUL: Existence Life Sense and Reason (On Free Choice II 3 7-8 10); Sensation as an Activity of the Soul (On Music VI 5 9-10); Memory Understanding and Will (The Trinity X 11 17-18); The Wonders of Memory (Confessions X 8-26); Three Levels of Vision (Literal Commentary on Genesis XII 6 15 -- 11 22; 30 58 -- 31 59). V. THE WORLD OF BODIES: All Bodily Natures Are Good (City of God XII 4); Invisible Seeds in the Elements (The Trinity III 8 13); The Elements Contain Seminal Reasons (Literal Commentary on Genesis IX 17 32); Measure Number and Weight (Literal Commentary on Genesis IV 3 7); Concerning Formless Matter (Confessions XII 3. 3 -- 9 9); Place Time and the Physical World (City of God XI 5-6); The Wonders of Nature (City of God XXI 4-5); God Works Throughout Nature (The Trinty III 5 11 -- 6 11); Man’s Natural Endowments (City of God XXII 24); The Physical World and the Christian (Enchiridion 9). VI. APPROACHING GOD THROUGH UNDERSTANDING: Creation is a Great Book (Sermon Mai 126 6); The Journey of the Soul to God (On Free Choice II 12 33-34; 15 39-40; 16 41-42); The Soul’s Ascent to God (Confessions VII 10 16 -- 17 23); The Whole World Proclaims Its Maker (On Psalm 26 Serm. 2 12); Ascending to the Supreme Truth (True Religion 29 52 -- 31 58); Plato’s View of God (City of God VII 4); How to Think About God (The Trinity V 1 2 -- 2 3); The Problem of Speaking About God (The Trinity VII 4 7-9); God Is the Selfsame (On Psalm 121 3 5); A Divine Invocation (Soliloquies I 2-6); Late Have I Loved Thee (Confessions X 27 38 -- 28 39). VII. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS LIFE: All Men Desire Happiness (On Psalm 32 Serm. 3 15-16); Man’s Greatest Good (Moral Behavior of the Catholic Church 3-8); Good Love and Bad Love (City of God XIV 6-7); Moral Evil Stems from Bad Will (City of God XII 6); Two Precepts of Love (City of God XIX 14); On Diversities of Local Customs (Letter 54 1-4); Doing Good to Body and Soul (Moral Behavior of the Catholic Church 27-28); The Evil of Telling a Lie (Enchiridion 18 19 22); Lying and Concealing the Truth (On Psalm 5 7); Faith Hope and Charity (Enchiridion 8); No Virtues Apart from God (City of God XIX 25); Our Reward Is Not in This Life (On Psalm 48 Serm. 2). VIII. DIMENSIONS OF GRACE: What the Grace of God Is (On Admonition and Grace 2 3); Augustine Was Never a Pelagian (Retractations I 9 2-4); What True Grace Is (On the Grace of Christ 26 27); The Work of Grace (City of God XXI 15-16); How Freedom Is Restored by Grace (Enchiridion 30-32); God’s Foreknowledge and Human Willing (City of God V 10); Grace Before and After the Fall (Enchiridion 104-106); Grace and Good Works (On Psalm 31 Serm. 2 6-8); Prevenient Grace (On Psalm 18 Serm. 2); Grace and Human Miseries (City of God XXII 20-22); The Beatific Vision (On Psalm 36 Serm. 2 8). IX. THE TWO CITIES: Augustine’s Analysis of the City of God (Letter to Firmus); How the Two Cities Differ (City of God XIV 1); Two Loves Make Two Cities (Literal Commentary on Genesis XI 15 20); Two Cities Formed
