On the Catechising of the Uninstructed

Contents (28 chapters)

1. 1. Introductory Notice.
2. 2. How Augustin Writes in Answer to a Favor Asked by a Deacon of Carthage.
3. 3. How It Often Happens that a Discourse Which Gives Pleasure to the Hearer is Distasteful to the Speaker; And What Explanation is to Be Offered of that Fact.
4. 4. Of the Full Narration to Be Employed in Catechising.
5. 5. That the Great Reason for the Advent of Christ Was the Commendation of Love.
6. 6. That the Person Who Comes for Catechetical Instruction is to Be Examined with Respect to His Views, on Desiring to Become a Christian.
7. 7. Of the Way to Commence the Catechetical Instruction, and of the Narration of Facts from the History of the World’s Creation on to the Present Times of the Church.
8. 8. Of the Exposition of the Resurrection, the Judgment, and Other Subjects, Which Should Follow This Narration.
9. 9. Of the Method to Be Pursued in Catechising Those Who Have Had a Liberal Education.
10. 10. Of the Method in Which Grammarians and Professional Speakers are to Be Dealt with.
11. 11. Of the Attainment of Cheerfulness in the Duty of Catechising, and of Various Causes Producing Weariness in the Catechumen.
12. 12. Of the Remedy for the Second Source of Weariness.
13. 13. Of the Remedy for the Third Source of Weariness.
14. 14. Of the Remedy for the Fourth Source of Weariness.
15. 15. Of the Remedy Against the Fifth and Sixth Sources of Weariness.
16. 16. Of the Method in Which Our Address Should Be Adapted to Different Classes of Hearers.
17. 17. A Specimen of a Catechetical Address; And First, the Case of a Catechumen with Worthy Views.
18. 18. The Specimen of Catechetical Discourse Continued, in Reference Specially to the Reproval of False Aims on the Catechumen’s Part.
19. 19. Of What is to Be Believed on the Subject of the Creation of Man and Other Objects.
20. 20. Of the Co-Existence of Good and Evil in the Church, and Their Final Separation.
21. 21. Of Israel’s Bondage in Egypt, Their Deliverance, and Their Passage Through the Red Sea.
22. 22. Of the Babylonish Captivity, and the Things Signified Thereby.
23. 23. Of the Six Ages of the World.
24. 24. Of the Mission of the Holy Ghost Fifty Days After Christ’s Resurrection.
25. 25. Of the Church in Its Likeness to a Vine Sprouting and Suffering Pruning.
26. 26. Of Constancy in the Faith of the Resurrection.
27. 27. Of the Formal Admission of the Catechumen, and of the Signs Therein Made Use of.
28. 28. Of the Prophecies of the Old Testament in Their Visible Fulfillment in the Church.