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Full Idea
Augustine did the most to define Christian heresy. The three most prominent were Donatism, Pelagianism (that humans are perfectible), and Manicheism (that good and evil are equally basic metaphysical realities).
Gist of Idea
Augustine identified Donatism, Pelagianism and Manicheism as the main heresies
Source
report of Augustine (works [c.415]) by Gareth B. Matthews - Augustine p.73
Book Ref
'Shorter Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Craig,Edward [Routledge 2005], p.73
A Reaction
Manicheans had presumably been studying Empedocles. (I suppose it's too late to identify Christianity as a heresy?).
Related Idea
Idea 552 Empedocles said good and evil were the basic principles [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
| 22167 | Our images of bodies are not produced by the bodies, but by our own minds [Augustine, by Aquinas] |
| 22117 | Our minds grasp reality by direct illumination (rather than abstraction from experience) [Augustine, by Matthews] |
| 4348 | Love, and do what you will [Augustine] |
| 22118 | Augustine created the modern concept of the will [Augustine, by Matthews] |
| 7821 | Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good [Augustine, by Grayling] |
| 22119 | Augustine said (unusually) that 'ought' does not imply 'can' [Augustine, by Matthews] |
| 22116 | Augustine identified Donatism, Pelagianism and Manicheism as the main heresies [Augustine, by Matthews] |
| 19338 | Augustine said evil does not really exist, and evil is a limitation in goodness [Augustine, by Perkins] |