The Augustine Catechism: The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love

by Augustine of Hippo

• ISBN13: 9781565481244
• ISBN10: 1565481240
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: New City Pr

Summary

Written as a favor for a friend, this "little work" is a wonderful explanation of Christian faith. It is a true catechism from which others, including the recent catechism of the Catholic Church, have been drawn. Within the context of the three theological virtues -- faith, hope, and love -- Augustine masterfully covers the faith. He first works his way through the creed, and then the Lords prayer as recorded by Matthew, and he ends with the sacraments. This is a magnus work in a small volume. The Augustine Catechism is the first book in a new series from NCP In it the classical jewels of this great saint will be made available for study and enjoyment in small, affordable paperbacks.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(15)
Translator's Preface	15	(4)
Soliloquies
Book I
Purpose	19	(1)
Prayer	20	(5)
I want to know God and the soul	25	(1)
How much I want to know God	26	(2)
What does it mean to know God?	28	(3)
Differences	31	(1)
The purified mind and contemplation	32	(2)
Vision	34	(1)
Illumination	35	(1)
Are we healthy?	36	(1)
Various pleasures	37	(2)
Justice	39	(2)
Search for ourselves and for God	41	(3)
Lover of wisdom	44	(2)
Cast off the things of the senses	46	(2)
To know truth	48	(7)
Notes	52	(3)
Book II
Living, existing, understanding	55	(2)
Truth cannot perish	57	(1)
The soul lives forever	58	(3)
The cosmic soul	61	(2)
Appearances	63	(2)
Resemblance and the senses	65	(3)
Similarity and dissimilarity; Soliloquies	68	(2)
Turmoils with Reason	70	(2)
A definition of false	72	(1)
Contradicting elements	73	(2)
The discipline of grammar	75	(3)
The subject and what is in the subject	78	(1)
The immortality of the soul	79	(3)
Various Quandaries	82	(1)
True and false natures	83	(5)
Truth is neither body nor emptiness	88	(2)
Shapes	90	(1)
Immortal truth to the immortality of the soul	91	(2)
Imagination and truth	93	(4)
Notes	96	(1)
Index	97