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The seven works of Saint Augustine in this volume all deal with the problem of faith in God. They were written over the course of about three decades, beginning with True Religion (390) and extending to The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Charity (c. 421). Therefore, this selection of writings provides an impressive insight into the intellectual and spiritual development of one of the greatest of...

the Christian religion, which is the true religion, and showed how human beings are to be made fit for this worship of God by means of a gentle divine guidance. Above all, however, this work opposes the two-nature teaching of the Manicheans.”29 The four basic features of the work that are listed in this summary will now be considered one by one. In Augustine’s understanding of it, true religion is characterized by an inseparable combination of worship,
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