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The Enchiridion

On Faith, Hope, and Love

Augustine of Hippo · 354–430

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Augustine’s compact handbook of the Christian faith, written for a friend who asked for the essentials in brief. He answers by the three theological virtues — faith in the Creed, hope in the Lord’s Prayer, and the love that is the end of all the commandments — with his searching treatment of evil as the mere absence of good, of grace, and of the resurrection along the way.

I Cannot express, my beloved son Laurentius, the delight with which I witness your progress in knowledge, and the earnest desire I have that you should be a wise man: not one of those of whom it is said, “Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?
From The Handbook: Faith, Hope, and Love

Contents

  1. 1 The Handbook: Faith, Hope, and Love 10 min
  2. 2 Good, Evil, and Error 28 min
  3. 3 The Fall and the Grace of God 13 min
  4. 4 Christ the Mediator 15 min
  5. 5 Baptism and the Forgiveness of Sins 15 min
  6. 6 The Holy Spirit, the Church, and Pardon 15 min
  7. 7 Faith, Works, and Repentance 26 min
  8. 8 The Resurrection and the Judgment 13 min
  9. 9 The Will of God and the Two Kingdoms 27 min
  10. 10 Hope: The Lord’s Prayer 3 min
  11. 11 Love: The End of the Commandments 8 min

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