This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... all that is most holy, and it is a duty to build it up; not a religion of a second order supersedes the religion, but ecclesiasticism, the service of the Church as a moral agency for reforming society, as an organism of the sacramental powers of love, of the good and of Fides, the right in which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... all that is most holy, and it is a duty to build it up; not a religion of a second order supersedes the religion, but ecclesiasticism, the service of the Church as a moral agency for reforming society, as an organism of the sacramental powers of love, of the good and of Fides, the right in which Christ works, (7) Higher than ies, Cari ta8. all monasticism stand fides, spes and caritas; hence the scheme of a dreary and egotistical contemplation is broken. To be sure, Augustine succeeded in uniting in all directions, although indeed with contradictions, the new lines of thought with the old. 2. The Donatist Contest. The Work, "De Civitate Dei." The Doctrine of the Church and of the Means of Grace. Reuter, a. a. O. Reiukins, Geseh. phfl. d. h. Aug., 1866. Giuzel, L. Aug. v. d. Kirche in d. Tiib. Theol. Quartalschr., 1849. Kostlin, D. Kathol. Auffass. v. d. K. in d. deutschen Ztschr. f. christl. Wissensch., 1856, Nr. 14. Schmidt, Aug. 'a Lehre v. d. K. ind. Yahrbb. f. deutsche Theol., 1861. Seeberg, Begriff d. christl. K. I. Th., 1885. Ribbeck, Donatus u. Aug., 1888. Augustine In the contest with Manichaeism and Donatism Adopts iSXrineof Augustine, following Optatus, formulated his docchuroh. trine of the Church upon the basis of Cyprian's conception, excluding, however, the Donatistic elements of Cyprian and moderating the hierarchical. In describing the Church as authority, as an indestructible institution of salvation, he believed that he was merely describing a divinely produced verity; in representing it as communio sanctorum, he followed his own religious experience. In the former he opposed the critical "subjectivism " of the Manichaeans and the puritanism of the Donatists who desired to make the truth of the Church dependent upon the...
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