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On the Morals of the Catholic Church

St. Augustine of Hippo

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Division On the Morals of the Catholic Church

Book I On the Morals of the Catholic Church c.1–35
Chapter 1 How the Pretensions of the Manichæans are to Be Refuted. Two Manichæan Falsehoods.
Chapter 2 He Begins with Arguments, in Compliance with the Mistaken Method of the Manichæans.
Chapter 3 Happiness is in the Enjoyment of Man’s Chief Good. Two Conditions of the Chief Good: 1st, Nothing is Better Than It; 2d, It Cannot Be Lost Against the Will.
Chapter 4 Man—What?
Chapter 5 Man’s Chief Good is Not the Chief Good of the Body Only, But the Chief Good of the Soul.
Chapter 6 Virtue Gives Perfection to the Soul; The Soul Obtains Virtue by Following God; Following God is the Happy Life.
Chapter 7 The Knowledge of God to Be Obtained from the Scripture. The Plan and Principal Mysteries of the Divine Scheme of Redemption.
Chapter 8 God is the Chief Good, Whom We are to Seek After with Supreme Affection.
Chapter 9 Harmony of the Old and New Testament on the Precepts of Charity.
Chapter 10 What the Church Teaches About God. The Two Gods of the Manichæans.
Chapter 11 God is the One Object of Love; Therefore He is Man’s Chief Good. Nothing is Better Than God. God Cannot Be Lost Against Our Will.
Chapter 12 We are United to God by Love, in Subjection to Him.
Chapter 13 We are Joined Inseparably to God by Christ and His Spirit.
Chapter 14 We Cleave to the Trinity, Our Chief Good, by Love.
Chapter 15 The Christian Definition of the Four Virtues.
Chapter 16 Harmony of the Old and New Testaments.
Chapter 17 Appeal to the Manichæans, Calling on Them to Repent.
Chapter 18 Only in the Catholic Church is Perfect Truth Established on the Harmony of Both Testaments.
Chapter 19 Description of the Duties of Temperance, According to the Sacred Scriptures.
Chapter 20 We are Required to Despise All Sensible Things, and to Love God Alone.
Chapter 21 Popular Renown and Inquisitiveness are Condemned in the Sacred Scriptures.
Chapter 22 Fortitude Comes from the Love of God.
Chapter 23 Scripture Precepts and Examples of Fortitude.
Chapter 24 Of Justice and Prudence.
Chapter 25 Four Moral Duties Regarding the Love of God, of Which Love the Reward is Eternal Life and the Knowledge of the Truth.
Chapter 26 Love of Ourselves and of Our Neighbor.
Chapter 27 On Doing Good to the Body of Our Neighbor.
Chapter 28 On Doing Good to the Soul of Our Neighbor. Two Parts of Discipline, Restraint and Instruction. Through Good Conduct We Arrive at the Knowledge of the Truth.
Chapter 29 Of the Authority of the Scriptures.
Chapter 30 The Church Apostrophised as Teacher of All Wisdom. Doctrine of the Catholic Church.
Chapter 31 The Life of the Anachoretes and Cœnobites Set Against the Continence of the Manichæans.
Chapter 32 Praise of the Clergy.
Chapter 33 Another Kind of Men Living Together in Cities. Fasts of Three Days.
Chapter 34 The Church is Not to Be Blamed for the Conduct of Bad Christians, Worshippers of Tombs and Pictures.
Chapter 35 Marriage and Property Allowed to the Baptized by the Apostles.
Book II On the Morals of the Manichæans c.1–20
Chapter 1 The Supreme Good is that Which is Possessed of Supreme Existence.
Chapter 2 What Evil is. That Evil is that Which is Against Nature. In Allowing This, the Manichæans Refute Themselves.
Chapter 3 If Evil is Defined as that Which is Hurtful, This Implies Another Refutation of the Manichæans.
Chapter 4 The Difference Between What is Good in Itself and What is Good by Participation.
Chapter 5 If Evil is Defined to Be Corruption, This Completely Refutes the Manichæan Heresy.
Chapter 6 What Corruption Affects and What It is.
Chapter 7 The Goodness of God Prevents Corruption from Bringing Anything to Non-Existence. The Difference Between Creating and Forming.
Chapter 8 Evil is Not a Substance, But a Disagreement Hostile to Substance.
Chapter 9 The Manichæan Fictions About Things Good and Evil are Not Consistent with Themselves.
Chapter 10 Three Moral Symbols Devised by the Manichæans for No Good.
Chapter 11 The Value of the Symbol of the Mouth Among the Manichæans, Who are Found Guilty of Blaspheming God.
Chapter 12 Manichæan Subterfuge.
Chapter 13 Actions to Be Judged of from Their Motive, Not from Externals. Manichæan Abstinence to Be Tried by This Principle.
Chapter 14 Three Good Reasons for Abstaining from Certain Kinds of Food.
Chapter 15 Why the Manichæans Prohibit the Use of Flesh.
Chapter 16 Disclosure of the Monstrous Tenets of the Manichæans.
Chapter 17 Description of the Symbol of the Hands Among the Manichæans.
Chapter 18 Of the Symbol of the Breast, and of the Shameful Mysteries of the Manichæans.
Chapter 19 Crimes of the Manichæans.
Chapter 20 Disgraceful Conduct Discovered at Rome.

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