Escritos contra los maniqueos y contra los donatistas
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- inglés
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- Obra completa
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- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Con errores de escaneo (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano) · 2 pasajes ilegibles, excluidos de las respuestas
- Extensión:
- ~680.000 palabras · 3215 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAAgustín de Hipona. (n.d.). Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists (NPNF I/IV) [Escritos contra los maniqueos y contra los donatistas]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/augustine/writings-against-the-manichaeans-and-against-the-donatists-npnf-i-iv
- MLAAgustín de Hipona. Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists (NPNF I/IV) [Escritos contra los maniqueos y contra los donatistas]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/augustine/writings-against-the-manichaeans-and-against-the-donatists-npnf-i-iv.
- ChicagoAgustín de Hipona. Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists (NPNF I/IV) [Escritos contra los maniqueos y contra los donatistas]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/augustine/writings-against-the-manichaeans-and-against-the-donatists-npnf-i-iv.
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De qué trata
Los escritos de Agustín contra dos cosas a la vez: el maniqueísmo, del que había formado parte, y el cisma donatista, que dividía el África cristiana.
Contexto e historia
Contra los maniqueos escribe quien estuvo nueve años entre ellos antes de convertirse: conoce el argumento desde dentro, y parte de su teología del mal sale de haberlo tenido que desmontar. La polémica donatista es más incómoda y hay que decirlo: es aquí donde Agustín acaba justificando que el poder civil obligue a los cismáticos a volver, con el «compelle intrare» de la parábola. Aquel argumento tuvo una descendencia larga y oscura, y se lee mejor sabiéndolo.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
Earlier writers on Manichaeism have, for the most part, made the Acta Disp. Archelai et Manetis and the anti-Manichaean writings of Augustin the basis of their representations. For later Manichaeism in the West, Augustin is beyond question the highest authority, and the various polemical treatises which he put forth exhibit the system under almost every imaginable aspect. The "Acts of the Disputation of Archelaus and Manes," while it certainly rests upon a somewhat extensive and accurative knowledge of early Manichaeism, is partially discredited by its generally admitted spuriousness — spuriousness in the sense that it is not a genuine record of a real debate. It is highly probable that debates of this kind occurred between Mani and various Christian leaders in the East, and so Mani may at one time or other have given utterance to most of the statements that are attributed to him in this writing; or these statements may have been derived, for substance, from his numerous treatises, and have been artfully adapted to the purposes of the writer of the "Acts.'' It is certain that most of the representations are correct. But we can no longer rel}' upon it as an authentic first-hand authority. Since Fliigel ])ublished the treatise from the Fihrist entitled " The Doctrines of the Manichaeans, by Muhammad ben Ishak,'' with a German translation and learned annotations, it has been admitted that this treatise must be made the basis for all future representations of Manichaeism. Kessler, while he has had access to many other Oriental documents bearing upon the subject, agrees with Fliigel in giving the first place to this writing. On this exposition of the