A Treatise On The Anger Of God Addressed To Donatus
Lactantius's early fourth-century treatise defending the biblical teaching that God experiences righteous anger against sin, arguing against both Epicurean indifference and Stoic apathy as applied to the divine nature.
23 Chapters
Table of Contents
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Chap. I.--Of Divine and Human Wisdom.
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Chap. II.--Of the Truth and Its Steps, and of God.
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Chap. III.--Of the Good and Evil Things in Human Affairs, and of Their Author.
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Chap. IV.--Of God and His Affections, and the Censure of Epicurus.
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Chap. V.--The Opinion of the Stoics Concerning God; Of His Anger and Kindness.
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Chap. VI.--That God is Angry.
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Chap. VII.--Of Man, and the Brute Animals, and Religion.
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Chap. VIII.--Of Religion.
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Chap. IX.--Of the Providence of God, and of Opinions Opposed to It.
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Chap. X.--Of the Origin of the World, and the Nature of Affairs, and the Providence of God.
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Chap. XI.--Of God, and that the One God, and by Whose Providence the World is Governed and Exists.
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Chap. XII.--Of Religion and the Fear of God.
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Chap. XIII.--Of the Advantage and Use of the World and of the Seasons.
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Chap. XIV.--Why God Made Man.
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Chap. XV.--Whence Sins Extended to Man.
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Chap. XVI.--Of God, and His Anger and Affections.
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Chap. XVII.--Of God, His Care and Anger.
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Chap. XVIII.--Of the Punishment of Faults, that It Cannot Take Place Without Anger.
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Chap. XIX.--Of the Soul and Body, and of Providence.
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Chap. XX.--Of Offences, and the Mercy of God.
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Chap. XXI.--Of the Anger of God and Man.
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Chap. XXII.--Of Sins, and the Verses of the Sibyls Respecting Them Recited.
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Chap. XXIII.--Of the Anger of God and the Punishment of Sins, and a Recital of the Verses of the Sibyls Respecting It; And, Moreover, a Reproof and Exhortation.