Chapter 1.—How Augustin Writes in Answer to a Favor Asked by a Deacon of Carthage.
Chapter 3.—Of the Full Narration to Be Employed in Catechising.
Chapter 4.—That the Great Reason for the Advent of Christ Was the Commendation of Love.
Chapter 8.—Of the Method to Be Pursued in Catechising Those Who Have Had a Liberal Education.
Chapter 9.—Of the Method in Which Grammarians and Professional Speakers are to Be Dealt with.
Chapter 11.—Of the Remedy for the Second Source of Weariness.
Chapter 12.—Of the Remedy for the Third Source of Weariness.
Chapter 13.—Of the Remedy for the Fourth Source of Weariness.
Chapter 14.—Of the Remedy Against the Fifth and Sixth Sources of Weariness.
Chapter 15.—Of the Method in Which Our Address Should Be Adapted to Different Classes of Hearers.
Chapter 18.—Of What is to Be Believed on the Subject of the Creation of Man and Other Objects.
Chapter 19.—Of the Co-Existence of Good and Evil in the Church, and Their Final Separation.
Chapter 20.—Of Israel’s Bondage in Egypt, Their Deliverance, and Their Passage Through the Red Sea.
Chapter 21.—Of the Babylonish Captivity, and the Things Signified Thereby.
Chapter 22.—Of the Six Ages of the World.
Chapter 23.—Of the Mission of the Holy Ghost Fifty Days After Christ’s Resurrection.
Chapter 24.—Of the Church in Its Likeness to a Vine Sprouting and Suffering Pruning.
Chapter 25.—Of Constancy in the Faith of the Resurrection.
Chapter 26.—Of the Formal Admission of the Catechumen, and of the Signs Therein Made Use of.
Chapter 27.—Of the Prophecies of the Old Testament in Their Visible Fulfillment in the Church.
On the Catechising of the Uninstructed1 [The Oxford Library and H. de Romestin translate the title: On Instructing the Unlearned.—P.S.]
In One Book.
Translated by
Rev. S. D. F. Salmond, D.D.,
Professor of Systematic Theology, Free Church College, Aberdeen.
S. AURELII AUGUSTINI HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI DE CATECHIZANDIS RUDIBUS LIBER UNUS .
Rogatus Augustinus a diacono Carthaginensi, catechizandi artem docendam suscipit: ac primo praecepta tradit, ut id officii non tantum certa methodo atque idonea ratione, sed etiam sine taedio et cum hilaritate impleatur. Postea revocatis ad usum praeceptis, profert ipse in exemplum sermones, ad eum erudiendum qui christianus esse velit, comparatos duos, longiorem unum, alterum brevissimum.