Enchiridion On Faith, Hope and Love

by Augustine of Hippo; Albert Outler

Publisher:

Wordsearch

, 2007

Overview

Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Loveis a briefer treatise on the grace of God and represents Augustine's fully matured theological perspective -- after the magnificent achievements of the De Trinitate and the greater part of the De civitate Dei, and after the tremendous turmoil of the Pelagian controversy in which the doctrine of grace was the exact epicenter. Sometime in 421, Augustine received a request from one Laurentius, a Christian layman who was the brother of the tribune Dulcitius (for whom Augustine wrote the De octo dulcitii quaestionibus in 423-425). This Laurentius wanted a handbook (enchiridion) that would sum up the essential Christian teaching in the briefest possible form. Augustine dryly comments that the shortest complete summary of the Christian faith is that God is to be served by man in faith, hope, and love. Then, acknowledging that this answer might indeed be too brief, he proceeds to expand it in an essay in which he tries unsuccessfully to subdue his natural digressive manner by imposing on it a patently artificial schematism. Despite its awkward form, however, the Enchiridion is one of the most important of all of Augustine's writings, for it is a conscious effort of the theological magistrate of the Western Church to stand on final ground of testimony to the Christian truth - Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love

Product Details

• Title: Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love
• Authors: Augustine of Hippo, Albert Outler
• Publisher: Wordsearch
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Era: era:nicene
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Theology › Early works to 1800; Theology
• Resource ID: LLS:WS_3F62713D1C7F4A2B8F65E5EE2E985B94
• Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-19T23:54:48Z