DE AGONE CHRISTIANO. A project of Christian life in contrast with Manichaeism, IIº

Abstract

This study brings to light a facet of De agone christiano (St Augustine, 396), which was hardly treated in the previous studies: its anti-Manichean feature. The recent Manichean studies permit to understand better the combat element present in their cosmology and ethics; this, on the other hand, helps us to understand how Augustine makes capital of it to contradict the Manichean combat in order to offer an alternative Christian combat of life based on the Gospel essence of Charity, applicable to the Christian life even today.