Enchiridion of Augustine

The title of "Hema-Augustine's scripture, handbook" or "handbook" is "faith, hope, love". Enchiridion is a compact paper about the Christian faith written at the request of Laurentius, an unidentified person right after St. Jerome died in 420. It is intended as a model of Christian doctrine or teaching. [1]

As the title implies, this work is organized according to the three kinds of grace required for Christians to worship God, faith, hope, and love. Under faith, Augustine taught Christian doctrine and explained using the Apostle's creed to deny heresy. With hope, he briefly interpreted the Lord 's prayer as a model of Christian prayer. The last part is about Christian's love words.

John Wesley took another approach. The same can be said about Augustine. Last year I participated in the weekly Augustine Reading Group. In a book (The Enchiridion, written in the '400s), Augustine most directly and most clearly handled sin directly. Reading my abstract may motivate someone to read Augustine's original work. Enchiridion (instruction manual) was written after AD 420, so it is one of the latest works of Augustine. You may agree or disagree with Augustine, but after you read him, at least it is more important for John Wesley than the notion of sin that is prevalent today in your view of his sins You must admit. Contemporary American Protestants do not like being Augustine "too Catholic", but they are one of the greatest Christian thinkers anyway - and most of them are grandfathers claimed by reformers, not Wesley is there. We recommend you to read Augustine. Ultimately, we know that the goal-driven life will disappear within 50 years. Augustine's work has history of nearly 1600 years.

This book is very good for both Augustin's text itself and referrals. Augustine responded to a friend who wanted a Christian teaching "handbook" and wrote an Enchiridion response. It is not as attractive as his confession, but it is worth reading. Augustine covers topics that focus on God's grace, such as baptism, original sin, abortion, creed and work, and elections. I am missing some parts of the Bible (such as certain parts of baptism) that seems not to be consistent with the reformed Bible. In fact, I recommend it as an introduction to many Christian teachings. To be honest, Augustine insists on the same doctrine, so I think several chapters sound like a recent Reformed Presbyterian church. (I will enter that camp)

Can mature saints refine elements of simple Christian life to simple manuals? Augustine surely tried it. At the age of sixty and in the process of writing the city of God he wrote a handbook on the living of Christians called Enchiridion on faith, hope, and love. Among the 93 main works of Augustine, this small content (Greek is a "handbook") shows his most complete picture of the life before God. The driving force of this manual is Laurentius. He asked Augustine to write a short story about the correct worship of God, the meaning and realization of the main purpose of our life, and the correct foundation of Christian faith. He obviously sought a "handbook": instead of leaving dust on the shelf his hands in his hands!