Retractationes

Augustine's systematic review and correction of his earlier writings, demonstrating his intellectual honesty and growth in understanding.

Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers — II Retractations 5, 54 cited: Augustine collected forms of scriptural phrases in seven booklets
"the same Augustine, II Retractations 5, 54, recalls that he collected in seven booklets, which still survive, the forms of phrases of sacred Scripture"
Chapter V: On the Dispositions Required for This Study — I Retractations, chapter 4 cited: Augustine retracts his statement that only the pure of heart know truth
"St. Augustine had said in the Soliloquies: God, who willed that only the pure of heart should know the truth; he retracts this in I Retractations, chapter 4."
Chapter V: On the Dispositions Required for This Study — I Retractations, chapter 4 cited: retracts that there are many roads to truth
"in I Retractations, chapter 4, he retracts what he had said elsewhere, that there are many roads to truth, since there is only one, namely Christ"

Verse 24: Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature — Cited (Book I, ch. 10) as retracting the view that animals were naturally peaceful before the fall
"Augustine himself seems to retract this in Book I of the Retractions, chapter 10"
Verse 26: Let Us Make Man in Our Image and Likeness — Cited (Book II, ch. 24) against Origen on the image of God being indelible
"against Origen, St. Augustine teaches in Book II of the Retractations, chapter 24."

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