On Christian Doctrine In Four Books

1 On Christian Doctrine In Four Books. 2 Introductory Note by the Editor. 3 Contents of Christian Doctrine. 4 Preface. 5 Book I. 6 Chapter 1.--The Interpretation of Scripture Depends on the Discovery and Enunciation of the Meaning, and is to Be Undertaken in Dependence on God's Aid. 7 Chapter 2.--What a Thing Is, and What A Sign. 8 Chapter 3.--Some Things are for Use, Some for Enjoyment. 9 Chapter 4.--Difference of Use and Enjoyment. 10 Chapter 5.--The Trinity the True Object of Enjoyment. 11 Chapter 6.--In What Sense God is Ineffable. 12 Chapter 7.--What All Men Understand by the Term God. 13 Chapter 8.--God to Be Esteemed Above All Else, Because He is Unchangeable Wisdom. 14 Chapter 9.--All Acknowledge the Superiority of Unchangeable Wisdom to that Which is Variable. 15 Chapter 10.--To See God, the Soul Must Be Purified. 16 Chapter 11.--Wisdom Becoming Incarnate, a Pattern to Us of Purification. 17 Chapter 12.--In What Sense the Wisdom of God Came to Us. 18 Chapter 13.--The Word Was Made Flesh. 19 Chapter 14.--How the Wisdom of God Healed Man. 20 Chapter 15.--Faith is Buttressed by the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, and is Stimulated by His Coming to Judgment. 21 Chapter 16.--Christ Purges His Church by Medicinal Afflictions. 22 Chapter 17.--Christ, by Forgiving Our Sins, Opened the Way to Our Home. 23 Chapter 18.--The Keys Given to the Church. 24 Chapter 19.--Bodily and Spiritual Death and Resurrection. 25 Chapter 20.--The Resurrection to Damnation. 26 Chapter 21.--Neither Body Nor Soul Extinguished at Death. 27 Chapter 22.--God Alone to Be Enjoyed. 28 Chapter 23.--Man Needs No Injunction to Love Himself and His Own Body. 29 Chapter 24.--No Man Hates His Own Flesh, Not Even Those Who Abuse It. 30 Chapter 25.--A Man May Love Something More Than His Body, But Does Not Therefore Hate His Body. 31 Chapter 26.--The Command to Love God and Our Neighbor Includes a Command to Love Ourselves. 32 Chapter 27.--The Order of Love. 33 Chapter 28.--How We are to Decide Whom to Aid. 34 Chapter 29.--We are to Desire and Endeavor that All Men May Love God. 35 Chapter 30.--Whether Angels are to Be Reckoned Our Neighbors. 36 Chapter 31.--God Uses Rather Than Enjoys Us. 37 Chapter 32.--In What Way God Uses Man. 38 Chapter 33.--In What Way Man Should Be Enjoyed. 39 Chapter 34.--Christ the First Way to God. 40 Chapter 35.--The Fulfillment and End of Scripture is the Love of God and Our Neighbor. 41 Chapter 36.--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. 42 Chapter 37.--Dangers of Mistaken Interpretation. 43 Chapter 38.--Love Never Faileth. 44 Chapter 39.--He Who is Mature in Faith, Hope and Love, Needs Scripture No Longer. 45 Chapter 40.--What Manner of Reader Scripture Demands. 46 Book II. 47 Chapter 1.--Signs, Their Nature and Variety. 48 Chapter 2.--Of the Kind of Signs We are Now Concerned with. 49 Chapter 3.--Among Signs, Words Hold the Chief Place. 50 Chapter 4.--Origin of Writing. 51 Chapter 5.--Scripture Translated into Various Languages. 52 Chapter 6.--Use of the Obscurities in Scripture Which Arise from Its Figurative Language. 53 Chapter 7.--Steps to Wisdom: First, Fear; Second, Piety; Third, Knowledge; Fourth, Resolution; Fifth, Counsel; Sixth, Purification of Heart; Seventh, Stop or Termination, Wisdom. 54 Chapter 8.--The Canonical Books. 55 Chapter 9.--How We Should Proceed in Studying Scripture. 56 Chapter 10.--Unknown or Ambiguous Signs Prevent Scripture from Being Understood. 57 Chapter 11.--Knowledge of Languages, Especially of Greek and Hebrew, Necessary to Remove Ignorance or Signs. 58 Chapter 12.--A Diversity of Interpretations is Useful. Errors Arising from Ambiguous Words. 59 Chapter 13.--How Faulty Interpretations Can Be Emended. 60 Chapter 14.--How the Meaning of Unknown Words and Idioms is to Be Discovered. 61 Chapter 15.--Among Versions a Preference is Given to the Septuagint and the Itala. 62 Chapter 16.--The Knowledge Both of Language and Things is Helpful for the Understanding of Figurative Expressions. 63 Chapter 17.--Origin of the Legend of the Nine Muses. 64 Chapter 18.--No Help is to Be Despised, Even Though It Come from a Profane Source. 65 Chapter 19.--Two Kinds Of Heathen Knowledge. 66 Chapter 20.--The Superstitious Nature of Human Institutions. 67 Chapter 21.--Superstition of Astrologers. 68 Chapter 22 .--The Folly of Observing the Stars in Order to Predict the Events of a Life. 69 Chapter 23.--Why We Repudiate Arts of Divination. 70 Chapter 24.--The Intercourse and Agreement with Demons Which Superstitious Observances Maintain. 71 Chapter 25.--In Human Institutions Which are Not Superstitious, There are Some Things Superfluous and Some Convenient and Necessary. 72 Chapter 26.--What Human Contrivances We are to Adopt, and What We are to Avoid. 73 Chapter 27.--Some Departments of Knowledge, Not of Mere Human Invention, Aid Us in Interpreting Scripture. 74 Chapter 28.--To What Extent History is an Aid. 75 Chapter 29.--To What Extent Natural Science is an Exegetical Aid. 76 Chapter 30.--What the Mechanical Arts Contribute to Exegetics. 77 Chapter 31.--Use of Dialectics. Of Fallacies. 78 Chapter 32.--Valid Logical Sequence is Not Devised But Only Observed by Man. 79 Chapter 33.--False Inferences May Be Drawn from Valid Reasonings, and Vice Versa. 80 Chapter 34.--It is One Thing to Know the Laws of Inference, Another to Know the Truth of Opinions. 81 Chapter 35 .--The Science of Definition is Not False, Though It May Be Applied to Falsities. 82 Chapter 36.--The Rules of Eloquence are True, Though Sometimes Used to Persuade Men of What is False. 83 Chapter 37.--Use of Rhetoric and Dialectic. 84 Chapter 38.--The Science of Numbers Not Created, But Only Discovered, by Man. 85 Chapter 39.--To Which of the Above-Mentioned Studies Attention Should Be Given, and in What Spirit. 86 Chapter 40.--Whatever Has Been Rightly Said by the Heathen, We Must Appropriate to Our Uses. 87 Chapter 41.--What Kind of Spirit is Required for the Study of Holy Scripture. 88 Chapter 42.--Sacred Scripture Compared with Profane Authors. 89 Book III. 90 Chapter 1 .--Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows. 91 Chapter 2.--Rule for Removing Ambiguity by Attending to Punctuation. 92 Chapter 3.--How Pronunciation Serves to Remove Ambiguity. Different Kinds of Interrogation. 93 Chapter 4.--How Ambiguities May Be Solved. 94 Chapter 5.--It is a Wretched Slavery Which Takes the Figurative Expressions of Scripture in a Literal Sense. 95 Chapter 6.--Utility of the Bondage of the Jews. 96 Chapter 7.--The Useless Bondage of the Gentiles. 97 Chapter 8.--The Jews Liberated from Their Bondage in One Way, the Gentiles in Another. 98 Chapter 9.--Who is in Bondage to Signs, and Who Not. 99 Chapter 10.--How We are to Discern Whether a Phrase is Figurative. 100 Chapter 11.--Rule for Interpreting Phrases Which Seem to Ascribe Severity to God and the Saints. 101 Chapter 12.--Rule for Interpreting Those Sayings and Actions Which are Ascribed to God and the Saints, and Which Yet Seem to the Unskillful to Be Wicked. 102 Chapter 13.--Same Subject, Continued. 103 Chapter 14.--Error of Those Who Think that There is No Absolute Right and Wrong. 104 Chapter 15.--Rule for Interpreting Figurative Expressions. 105 Chapter 16.--Rule for Interpreting Commands and Prohibitions. 106 Chapter 17.--Some Commands are Given to All in Common, Others to Particular Classes. 107 Chapter 18.--We Must Take into Consideration the Time at Which Anything Was Enjoyed or Allowed. 108 Chapter 19.--Wicked Men Judge Others by Themselves. 109 Chapter 20.--Consistency of Good Men in All Outward Circumstances. 110 Chapter 21.--David Not Lustful, Though He Fell into Adultery. 111 Chapter 22.--Rule Regarding Passages of Scripture in Which Approval is Expressed of Actions Which are Now Condemned by Good Men. 112 Chapter 23.--Rule Regarding the Narrative of Sins of Great Men. 113 Chapter 24.--The Character of the Expressions Used is Above All to Have Weight. 114 Chapter 25.--The Same Word Does Not Always Signify the Same Thing. 115 Chapter 26.--Obscure Passages are to Be Interpreted by Those Which are Clearer. 116 Chapter 27.--One Passage Susceptible of Various Interpretations. 117 Chapter 28.-- It is Safer to Explain a Doubtful Passage by Other Passages of Scripture Than by Reason. 118 Chapter 29.--The Knowledge of Tropes is Necessary. 119 Chapter 30.--The Rules of Tichonius the Donatist Examined. 120 Chapter 31.--The First Rule of Tichonius. 121 Chapter 32.--The Second Rule of Tichonius. 122 Chapter 33.--The Third Rule of Tichonius. 123 Chapter 34.--The Fourth Rule of Tichonius. 124 Chapter 35.--The Fifth Rule of Tichonius. 125 Chapter 36.--The Sixth Rule of Tichonius. 126 Chapter 37.--The Seventh Rule of Tichonius. 127 Book IV. 128 Chapter 1.--This Work Not Intended as a Treatise on Rhetoric. 129 Chapter 2.--It is Lawful for a Christian Teacher to Use the Art of Rhetoric. 130 Chapter 3.--The Proper Age and the Proper Means for Acquiring Rhetorical Skill. 131 Chapter 4.--The Duty of the Christian Teacher. 132 Chapter 5.--Wisdom of More Importance Than Eloquence to the Christian Teacher. 133 Chapter 6.--The Sacred Writers Unite Eloquence with Wisdom. 134 Chapter 7.--Examples of True Eloquence Drawn from the Epistles of Paul and the Prophecies of Amos. 135 Chapter 8.--The Obscurity of the Sacred Writers, Though Compatible with Eloquence, Not to Be Imitated by Christian Teachers. 136 Chapter 9.--How, and with Whom, Difficult Passages are to Be Discussed. 137 Chapter 10.--The Necessity for Perspicuity of Style. 138 Chapter 11.--The Christian Teacher Must Speak Clearly, But Not Inelegantly. 139 Chapter 12.--The Aim of the Orator, According to Cicero, is to Teach, to Delight, and to Move. Of These, Teaching is the Most Essential. 140 Chapter 13.--The Hearer Must Be Moved as Well as Instructed. 141 Chapter 14.--Beauty of Diction to Be in Keeping with the Matter. 142 Chapter 15.--The Christian Teacher Should Pray Before Preaching. 143 Chapter 16.--Human Directions Not to Be Despised, Though God Makes the True Teacher. 144 Chapter 17.--Threefold Division of The Various Styles of Speech. 145 Chapter 18.--The Christian Orator is Constantly Dealing with Great Matters. 146 Chapter 19.--The Christian Teacher Must Use Different Styles on Different Occasions. 147 Chapter 20.--Examples of the Various Styles Drawn from Scripture. 148 Chapter 21.--Examples of the Various Styles, Drawn from the Teachers of the Church, Especially Ambrose and Cyprian. 149 Chapter 22.--The Necessity of Variety in Style. 150 Chapter 23.--How the Various Styles Should Be Mingled. 151 Chapter 24.--The Effects Produced by the Majestic Style. 152 Chapter 25.--How the Temperate Style is to Be Used. 153 Chapter 26.--In Every Style the Orator Should Aim at Perspicuity, Beauty, and Persuasiveness. 154 Chapter 27.--The Man Whose Life is in Harmony with His Teaching Will Teach with Greater Effect. 155 Chapter 28.--Truth is More Important Than Expression. What is Meant by Strife About Words. 156 Chapter 29.--It is Permissible for a Preacher to Deliver to the People What Has Been Written by a More Eloquent Man Than Himself. 157 Chapter 30.--The Preacher Should Commence His Discourse with Prayer to God. 158 Chapter 31.--Apology for the Length of the Work. 159 THE CITY OF GOD. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 160 ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. INDEX OF SUBJECTS.