On Christian Belief (#08 in Works Of Saint Augustine Series)

This volume contains new translations of seven works: True Religion, The Advantage of Believing (De utilitate credendi), Faith and Creed (De fide et symbolo), Faith in the Unseen (De fide rerum invisibilium), Demonic Divination (De divinatione daemonum), Faith and Works (De fide et operibus), and Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Charity (De vera religione, Enchiridion De fide, spe, et caritate).

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The seven works of Augustine that are contained in this volume all deal with the problem of faith in God. They were written over the course of three decades, beginning with True Religion (390) and extending to the Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Charity (c. 421). Hence this selection of writings provides an impressive insight into the intellectual and spiritual development of one of the greatest of all Western minds, as it grappled with a question that has never ceased to preoccupy and stimulate Western thought: Is it reasonable to believe in God, and what form might such belief take? Each of these seven works is a new translation into contemporary English, and each is introduced by the German Augustinian scholar Michael Fiedrowicz, who has also written a valuable general introduction.