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Containing a General View of the Subjects Treated in Holy Scripture

On Christian Doctrine (De Doctrina Christiana) · Saint Augustine of Hippo

  1. Main text
  2. The Interpretation of Scripture Depends on the Discovery and Enunciation of the Meaning, and is to Be Undertaken in Dependence on God’s Aid.
  3. What a Thing Is, and What A Sign.
  4. Some Things are for Use, Some for Enjoyment.
  5. Difference of Use and Enjoyment.
  6. The Trinity the True Object of Enjoyment.
  7. In What Sense God is Ineffable.
  8. What All Men Understand by the Term God.
  9. God to Be Esteemed Above All Else, Because He is Unchangeable Wisdom.
  10. All Acknowledge the Superiority of Unchangeable Wisdom to that Which is Variable.
  11. To See God, the Soul Must Be Purified.
  12. Wisdom Becoming Incarnate, a Pattern to Us of Purification.
  13. In What Sense the Wisdom of God Came to Us.
  14. The Word Was Made Flesh.
  15. How the Wisdom of God Healed Man.
  16. Faith is Buttressed by the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, and is Stimulated by His Coming to Judgment.
  17. Christ Purges His Church by Medicinal Afflictions.
  18. Christ, by Forgiving Our Sins, Opened the Way to Our Home.
  19. The Keys Given to the Church.
  20. Bodily and Spiritual Death and Resurrection.
  21. The Resurrection to Damnation.
  22. Neither Body Nor Soul Extinguished at Death.
  23. God Alone to Be Enjoyed.
  24. Man Needs No Injunction to Love Himself and His Own Body.
  25. No Man Hates His Own Flesh, Not Even Those Who Abuse It.
  26. A Man May Love Something More Than His Body, But Does Not Therefore Hate His Body.
  27. The Command to Love God and Our Neighbor Includes a Command to Love Ourselves.
  28. The Order of Love.
  29. How We are to Decide Whom to Aid.
  30. We are to Desire and Endeavor that All Men May Love God.
  31. Whether Angels are to Be Reckoned Our Neighbors.
  32. God Uses Rather Than Enjoys Us.
  33. In What Way God Uses Man.
  34. In What Way Man Should Be Enjoyed.
  35. Christ the First Way to God.
  36. The Fulfillment and End of Scripture is the Love of God and Our Neighbor.
  37. That Interpretation of Scripture Which Builds Us Up in Love is Not Perniciously Deceptive Nor Mendacious, Even Though It Be Faulty.  The Interpreter, However, Should Be Corrected.
  38. Dangers of Mistaken Interpretation.
  39. Love Never Faileth.
  40. He Who is Mature in Faith, Hope and Love, Needs Scripture No Longer.
  41. What Manner of Reader Scripture Demands.