Four Treatises

Four shorter works, written across the whole of his life, that trace the road of the soul to God.

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About this edition

The Soliloquies, composed soon after his conversion, are a dialogue between Augustine and his own Reason on the knowledge of God and of the soul, and on the truth that cannot die.

On the Profit of Believing, written to a friend still held by the Manichees, shows that faith must go before understanding, and that the authority of the Church is a surer road to truth than proud reason alone. Of the Morals of the Catholic Church teaches that the whole of virtue is nothing but the love of God, and that the four cardinal virtues are but four forms of that single love. And the Enchiridion, the handbook of his maturity written for a Roman named Laurentius, sets out the sum of the Christian religion under three heads: faith, hope, and love.

This Sanctified Souls Press edition gathers the four, complete, in the translations of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, on cream paper, for reading and keeping.

Contents

• The Soliloquies, translated by C. C. Starbuck
• On the Profit of Believing, translated by C. L. Cornish
• Of the Morals of the Catholic Church, translated by Richard Stothert
• The Enchiridion, translated by J. F. Shaw

Details

• Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), Bishop of Hippo Regius and Doctor of the Church
• Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers translations, 1887
• Four treatises, each complete
• Sanctified Souls, Heritage Editions
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 254 pages, cream paper

Cover: Saint Augustine in His Study, tempera on panel by Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1445–1510), c. 1490–1494. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Public domain.

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