On Christian Doctrine
Augustine
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- Introductory Note
- Preface
- Book 1
- The Interpretation of Scripture
- What a Thing Is, and What a Sig
- Some Things Are for Use, Some f
- Difference of Use and Enjoyment
- The Trinity the True Object of
- In What Sense God Is Ineffable
- What All Men Understand by the
- God to Be Esteemed Above All El
- All Acknowledge the Superiority
- To See God, the Soul Must Be Pu
- Wisdom Becoming Incarnate, a Pa
- In What Sense the Wisdom of God
- The Word Was Made Flesh
- How the Wisdom of God Healed Ma
- Faith Is Buttressed by the Resu
- Christ Purges His Church by Med
- Christ, by Forgiving Our Sins,
- The Keys Given to the Church
- Bodily and Spiritual Death and
- The Resurrection to Damnation
- Neither Body Nor Soul Extinguis
- God Alone to Be Enjoyed
- Man Needs No Injunction to Love
- No Man Hates His Own Flesh, Not
- A Man May Love Something More T
- The Command to Love God and Our
- The Order of Love
- How We Are to Decide Whom to Ai
- We Are to Desire and Endeavor T
- Whether Angels Are to Be Reckon
- God Uses Rather Than Enjoys Us
- In What Way God Uses Man
- In What Way Man Should Be Enjoy
- Christ the First Way to God
- The Fulfillment and End of Scri
- That Interpretation of Scriptur
- Dangers of Mistaken Interpretat
- Love Never Faileth
- He Who Is Mature in Faith, Hope
- What Manner of Reader Scripture
- Book 2
- Signs, Their Nature and Variety
- Of the Kind of Signs We Are Now
- Among Signs, Words Hold the Chi
- Origin of Writing
- Scripture Translated Into Vario
- Use of the Obscurities in Scrip
- Steps to Wisdom: First, Fear; S
- The Canonical Books
- How We Should Proceed in Studyi
- Unknown Or Ambiguous Signs Prev
- Knowledge of Languages, Especia
- A Diversity of Interpretations
- How Faulty Interpretations Can
- How the Meaning of Unknown Word
- Among Versions a Preference Is
- The Knowledge Both of Language
- Origin of the Legend of the Nin
- No Help Is to Be Despised, Even
- Two Kinds Ofheathen Knowledge
- The Superstitious Nature of Hum
- Superstition of Astrologers
- The Folly of Observing the Star
- Why We Repudiate Arts of Divina
- The Intercourse and Agreement w
- In Human Institutions Which Are
- What Human Contrivances We Are
- Some Departments of Knowledge,
- To What Extent History Is an Ai
- To What Extent Natural Science
- What the Mechanical Arts Contri
- Use of Dialectics-of Fallacies
- Valid Logical Sequence Is Not D
- False Inferences May Be Drawn f
- It Is One Thing to Know the Law
- The Science of Definition Is No
- The Rules of Eloquence Are True
- Use of Rhetoric and Dialectic
- The Science of Numbers Not Crea
- To Which of the Above-Mentioned
- Whatever Has Been Rightly Said
- What Kind of Spirit Is Required
- Sacred Scripture Compared with
- Book 3
- Summary of the Foregoing Books,
- Rule for Removing Ambiguity by
- How Pronunciation Serves to Rem
- How Ambiguities May Be Solved
- It Is a Wretched Slavery Which
- Utility of the Bondage of the J
- The Useless Bondage of the Gent
- The Jews Liberated from Their B
- Who Is in Bondage to Signs, and
- How We Are to Discern Whether a
- Rule for Interpreting Phrases W
- Rule for Interpreting Those Say
- Same Subject, Continued
- Error of Those Who Think That T
- Rule for Interpreting Figurativ
- Rule for Interpreting Commands
- Some Commands Are Given to All
- We Must Take Into Consideration
- Wicked Men Judge Others by Them
- Consistency of Good Men in All
- David Not Lustful, Though He Fe
- Rule Regarding Passages of Scri
- Rule Regarding the Narrative of
- The Character of the Expression
- The Same Word Does Not Always S
- Obscure Passages Are to Be Inte
- One Passage Susceptible of Vari
- It Is Safer to Explain a Doubtf
- The Knowledge of Tropes Is Nece
- The Rules of Tichonius the Dona
- The First Rule of Tichonius
- The Second Rule of Tichonius
- The Third Rule of Tichonius
- The Fourth Rule of Tichonius
- The Fifth Rule of Tichonius
- The Sixth Rule of Tichonius
- The Seventh Rule of Tichonius
- Book 4
- This Work Not Intended as a Tre
- It Is Lawful for a Christian Te
- The Proper Age and the Proper M
- Theduty of the Christian Teache
- Wisdom of More Importance Than
- The Sacred Writers Unite Eloque
- Examples of True Eloquence Draw
- The Obscurity of the Sacred Wri
- How, and with Whom, Difficult P
- The Necessity for Perspicuity o
- The Christian Teacher Must Spea
- The Aim of the Orator, Accordin
- The Hearer Must Be Moved as Wel
- Beauty of Diction to Be in Keep
- The Christian Teacher Should Pr
- Human Directions Not to Be Desp
- Threefold Division of the Vario
- The Christian Orator Is Constan
- The Christian Teacher Must Use
- Examples of the Various Styles
- Examples of the Various Styles,
- The Necessity of Variety in Sty
- How the Various Styles Should B
- The Effects Produced by the Maj
- How the Temperate Style Is to B
- In Every Style the Orator Shoul
- The Man Whose Life Is in Harmon
- Truth Is More Important Than Ex
- It Is Permissible for a Preache
- The Preacher Should Commence Hi
- Apology for the Length of the W
