Demonstrative Proof In Defence Of God: A Study Of Titus Of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos : The Work's Sources, Aims, And Relation To Its Contemporary Theology

CONTENTS......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 13
1. The main interpretation......Page 18
Excursion: Manichaeism as Christian Gnosis......Page 23
2. Overview of the study\'s structure......Page 30
1. Summary of Book I......Page 34
2. Summary of Book II......Page 40
3. Summary of Book III......Page 51
4. Summary of Book IV......Page 67
1. Knowledge of Titus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages......Page 83
2. Reception of and scholarship on Contra Manichaeos from the end of the 16th century to De Lagarde\'s editions of the text in 1859......Page 86
3. Contra Manichaeos as a source of knowledge on Manichaeism......Page 95
4. Titus as a theological and philosophical writer......Page 106
5. Text transmission and history of editions......Page 126
2. The province of Arabia, conflicts between pagans and Catholics and the dating of Contra Manichaeos......Page 137
Excursion: Other works by Titus......Page 145
3. Heresiology and anti-Manichaeism......Page 146
Excursion: Possible use of various patristic sources in Titus......Page 163
1. The two audiences......Page 175
2. Titus\'s portrayal of Manichaeism as barbarism, irrationalism and as a philosophy......Page 183
3. Titus\'s portrayal of Manichaeism as determinism and immorality......Page 188
1 The relevance of the problem for this study......Page 194
2. Heraclianus\'s information and Adda\'s works......Page 195
3. The Manichaean source in Contra Manichaeos I + III.4–5......Page 203
4. Other Manichaean sources in Contra Manichaeos Books III–IV......Page 216
a. Introduction......Page 223
b. Discussion of the non-Catholic polemical interpretations of the OT......Page 226
c. The philosophical and Marcionite background for the idea of the Creator\'s ignorance......Page 233
d. The philosophical and Gnostic background for the idea of the Creator\'s φθóνος......Page 242
e. The positive evaluation of man\'s acquisition of knowledge in Gnostic texts......Page 251
f. Comparison with the original Manichaean literature......Page 254
g. Comparison with Augustine\'s portrayal of Manichaeism......Page 260
h. Comparison with Emperor Julian\'s treatise: Contra Galilaeos......Page 266
i. Problems and different solutions......Page 268
1. Titus\'s knowledge of philosophers and philosophical texts......Page 272
2. Titus\'s concept of God and his basic philosophical position......Page 276
3. The \"common concepts\"......Page 297
4. Titus\'s philosophical psychology......Page 314
1. Introductory remark......Page 337
2. The image of God in man......Page 338
3. God\'s foreknowledge and man\'s disobedience......Page 343
4. Comparison with earlier writers......Page 348
a. Titus\'s view of death in Book II and Book IV......Page 360
b. Death did not harm man......Page 366
c. The background to these ideas in the earlier tradition......Page 370
6. Summarising remarks......Page 380
1. Plan for the following comparison......Page 383
2. Outline of the interpretation of the Paradise narrative in Eusebius of Caesarea......Page 386
3. Comparison with Eusebius of Emesa\'s interpretation of the Paradise narrative......Page 388
4. Comparison with Diodore of Tarsus\'s interpretation of the Paradise narrative......Page 396
5. Problems concerning Coisliniana, fragment no. 115......Page 399
6. Comparison with Theodore of Mopsuestia\'s interpretation of the Paradise narrative in his commentary on Genesis, illustrated by other Theodore fragments......Page 409
7. Comparison with Theodore of Mopsuestia\'s work: Against those who say that men sin by nature and not by intention......Page 424
8. Comparison with the Constitutiones Apostolorum......Page 431
9. Hypotheses to explain similarities between interpretations of the Paradise narrative......Page 432
X. Summary of the study\'s most important conclusions......Page 437
XI. Critical examinations of the text......Page 441
Bibliography......Page 492
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2. Index of Sources......Page 545
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