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expositions-130	none	B.G. Prusak’s “An Analysis of Augustine’s Argument in Confessions That Evil Does Not Exist”: A Response	2009	17	.pdf	application/pdf	6301	279	60	Chronologically speaking, there are at least four significant portions of his oeuvre that predate the Confessions; likewise, there are numerous germane passages in compositions from the last two decades of his life that emerged as he battled the implica- tions that he understood to be latent within the Pelagians’ teachings.13 These “anti-Pelagian” texts should in no wise be regarded as accidental or as texts Augustine included in these works “in passing.” While I am more than comfortable with any view that asserts that this is a fundamental “augustinian” or, more accurately, a fundamental Judeo-Christian belief, it would be more accurate and, in fact, more helpful for the issue at hand, to say that the existence of a single, immutable, incorruptible, and good God is the Augustinian belief.1 Pushing the discussion back this one step—since it obviously remains an essential, if only secondary, “augustinian” belief that the one God who possesses the aforementioned attributes is the One who is solely and uniquely responsible for the good creation—is necessary because it more accurately frames the discussion in its proper theologi- cal and metaphysical terms.2 Along these same lines, allow me to note at the outset that any reader of the Confessions or, indeed, of (most of ) what posterity has preserved from Augustine, does well to keep “on the table” at all times the impact that the Manichaeans and their (largely) Gnostic and thoroughly dualist creation mythology had upon Augus- tine.	cache/expositions-130.pdf	txt/expositions-130.txt