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What Is Repentance?

On Repentance (Tertullian) Chapter 1. Of Heathen RepentanceRepentance, men understand, so far as nature is able, to be an emotion of the mind arising from disgust at some previously cherished...

What Is the Manichean Heresy?

From Of the Manicheans, by Alexander of Lycopolis Chapter 1. The Excellence of the Christian Philosophy; The Origin of Heresies Amongst ChristiansThe philosophy of the Christians is termed simple....

Why Did Cain Kill Abel?

15-7 But though God made use of this very mode of address which we have been endeavoring to explain, and spoke to Cain in that form by which He was wont to accommodate Himself to our first parents...

What Is the Purpose of Monasticism?

Conferences (John Cassian) > Conference 1 Chapter 2 - Of the question of Abbot Moses, who asked what was the goal and what the end of the monk. All the arts and sciences, said he, have some...