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CONFESSIONS and ENCHIRIDION by SAINT AUGUSTINE

Digitized by Harry Plantinga

Originally: confessions+enchiridion1.0.txt
on kuyper.cs.pitt.edu

Scanned from an uncopyrighted 1955 Westminster Press
edition, Vol. VII of the Library of Christian Classics,
printed in the United States.

This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, posted to Wiretap 7/94.

AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS & ENCHIRIDION

Newly translated and edited

by



ALBERT C. OUTLER, Ph.D., D.D.

Professor of Theology

Perkins School of Theology

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas

First published MCMLV

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-5021

Introduction

LIKE A COLOSSUS BESTRIDING TWO WORLDS, Augustine stands as the
last patristic and the first medieval father of Western
Christianity. He gathered together and conserved all the main
motifs of Latin Christianity from Tertullian to Ambrose; he
appropriated the heritage of Nicene orthodoxy; he was a
Chalcedonian before Chalcedon -- and he drew all this into an
unsystematic synthesis which is still our best mirror of the heart
and mind of the Christian community in the Roman Empire. More
than this, he freely received and deliberately reconsecrated the
religious philosophy of the Greco-Roman world to a new apologetic
use in maintaining the intelligibility of the Christian
proclamation. Yet, even in his role as summator of tradition, he

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