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Augustine's Use of Scripture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Mervin Monroe Deems
Mervin Monroe Deems
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Federated Theological Faculty University of Chicago
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Augustine lived at a critical moment in western European history. On the last day of the year 406, many Vandals, Alani, Suevi crossed the Rhine and, having defeated the Franks, settled for a time in Gaul and finally reached the Pyrenees. Four years later Rome itself fell to Alaric and his Visigoths. In addition to these outward catastrophes, the church's inner life suffered from the assaults of heretic and schismatic. Arianism persisted in Gaul, Montanism and Manichaeism were rife in North Africa. Puritanic Donatism laid claim to being genuine Christianity, a claim which the doughty Bishop of Hippo could not countenance.

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Church History , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1945, pp. 188 - 200
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1945

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1 Literature on Augustine is voluminous. For this special topic one may consult: Costello, C. J., St. Augustine's Doctrine on the Inspiration and Canonicity of Scripture (Washington, 1930)Google Scholar, Burkitt, F. C., The Old Latin and the Itala, in Texts and Studies (Cambridge, 1896), X, 3,Google Scholar and especially, Vogels, Heinrich Joseph, “Die Helige Schrift bei Augustinus,” in the Festscrift Aurelius Augustinus, edited by Martin, Grabmaun and Joseph, Mausbach (Köln, 1930)Google Scholar. In quoting from Augustine's works, I have used, for convenience, the familiar translations of the Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers.

2 On Christian Doctrine, II, 8, 13.

3 On Baptism, Against the Donatists, II, 3–4.

4 On Christian Doctrine, II, 9, 14.

5 On Christian Docirine, III, 14.

6 City of God, XVIII, 42.

7 City of God, XVIII, 43.

8 Letters, LXXI, 4, 6.

9 On Christian Doctrine, II, 15, 22.

10 On Christian Doctrine, II, 14, 21; II, 15, 22.

11 On the Catechising of the Uninstructed, 4, 8.

12 On the Profit of Believing, 5f.

13 Migne, , Patrologia Latina, XLII, 246.Google Scholar

14 Ibid., XLII, 246.

15 Reply to Faustus the Manichaean, XI, 2.

16 Ibid., XXXII, 19.

17 Ibid., XI, 5.

18 Ibid., XXII, 83.

19 City of God, XVIII, 41.

20 The Harmony of the Gospels, II, 21, 51.

21 Ibid., III, 24, 63.

22 Ibid., II, 12, 29.

23 Cf. Ibid., II, 12, 28.

24 Matthew 27:9–10.

25 Letters, XXVIII.

26 Migne, , Patrologia Latina, XXXIII, 277.Google Scholar

27 Letters, LXXXII.

28 Letters, XCIII.

29 City of God, XIII, 21.

30 Sermons, XXI.

31 On Christian Doctrine, II, 6, 7–8.

32 Sermons, LI.

33 On Christian Doctrine, II, 10, 15.

34 City of God, XIII, 21.

35 Ibid., XIII, 21.

36 On Christian Doctrine, II, 16, 24.

37 Ibid., II, 24.

38 Sermons, LI.

39 Sermons, LXXXIII.

40 Sermons, LXXXIX.

41 On the Psalms, XCI.

42 Ibid., XCI, 8.

43 Ibid., XCIV.

44 Ibid., XIV, 4.

45 Ep. St. John, Hom., III, 1.

46 On the Gospel of John, Trac., XLII.

47 To Consentius: Against Lying, 28.

48 On Christian Doctrine, I, 35, 39.

49 Ibid., I, 36, 40.

50 Reply to Faustus, the Manichaean, XIII, 18.

51 On the Trinity, VIII, 6.

52 Ibid., I, 43.

53 On Christian Doctrine, III, 1.

54 The City of God, XV, 13.

55 Retractations, II, 4.

56 Ibid., XV, 14.

57 City of God, XX, 20.

58 On Christian Doctrine, III, 2f.

59 Of Holy Virginity, 18.

60 Enchiridion, 4.