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Book Seven
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- Book Seven
- Chapter I - He Regarded Not God Indeed Under The Form Of A Human Body, But As A Corporeal Substance Diffused Through Space.
- Chapter II - The Disputation Of Nebridius Against The Manichaeans, On The Question "Whether God Be Corruptible Or Incorruptible."
- Chapter III - That The Cause Of Evil Is The Free Judgment Of The Will.
- Chapter IV - That God Is Not Corruptible, Who, If He Were, Would Not Be God At All.
- Chapter IX - He Compares The Doctrine Of The Platonists Concerning The Logos With The Much More Excellent Doctrine Of Christianity.
- Chapter V - Questions Concerning The Origin Of Evil In Regard To God, Who, Since He Is The Chief God, Cannot Be The Cause Of Evil.
- Chapter VI - He Refutes The Divinations Of The Astrologers, Deduced From The Constellations.
- Chapter VII - He Is Severely Exercised As To The Origin Of Evil.
- Chapter VIII - By God's Assistance He By Degrees Arrives At The Truth.
- Chapter X - Divine Things Are The More Clearly Manifested To Him Who Withdraws Into The Recesses Of His Heart.
- Chapter XI - That Creatures Are Mutable And God Alone Immutable.
- Chapter XII - Whatever Things The Good God Has Created Are Very Good.
- Chapter XIII - It Is Meet To Praise The Creator For The Good Things Which Are Made In Heaven And Earth.
- Chapter XIV - Being Displeased With Some Part Of God's Creation, He Conceives Of Two Original Substances.
- Chapter XIX - He Does Not Yet Fully Understand The Saying Of John, That "The Word Was Made Flesh."
- Chapter XV - Whatever Is, Owes Its Being To God.
- Chapter XVI - Evil Arises Not From A Substance, But From The Perversion Of The Will.
- Chapter XVII - Above His Changeable Mind, He Discovers The Unchangeable Author Of Truth.
- Chapter XVIII - Jesus Christ, The Mediator, Is The Only Way Of Safety.
- Chapter XX - He Rejoices That He Proceeded From Plato To The Holy Scriptures, And Not The Reverse.
- Chapter XXI - What He Found In The Sacred Books Which Are Not To Be Found In Plato.
- Contents - Book VII