St Augustine, On Christian Teaching, How To Read and Interpret Holy Scriptures

St Augustine’s key work teaches us how to read Scriptures and teach and spread our faith to our neighbors. What is the core of this work? We should Love God with all of our heart and with all of our soul and with all of our mind and with all of our strength, and we should love our neighbor as ourselves. If we do not love our neighbor, we cannot Love God, and if we do not Love God and our neighbor, we cannot fathom Scripture, let alone deign to teach and preach the Scriptures. On Christian Teaching, is translated often as On Christian Doctrine.

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Among other topics, St Augustine discusses:
• Figurative or allegorical interpretation
• Old Testament Canon, Apocrypha or Deutero-canonical books
• Resurrection of the body
• The Nature of the Trinity
• Difficult verses of the Bible
• Seven Steps to Wisdom

Other topics covered include:
• Gaudete et Exsultate, by Pope Francis
• St John of the Cross
• Jezebel and Ahab
• Book of Joshua
• Historical-Critical vs Patristic Interpretation
• Levy, Medieval Biblical Interpretation
• Yves Congar, History of Theology
• McGuckin, Path of Christianity

St Augustine teaches, “Whoever thinks he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but interprets them in a way that does not build up this two-fold Love of God and love of neighbor, does not truly understand the Scriptures. If, on the other hand, a man draws a meaning from Scriptures that builds up the two-fold Love of God and love of his neighbor, although he does not precisely understand the exact meaning of the author, his error is not pernicious, and he is wholly clear from the charge of deception.”

St Augustine further teaches that if someone with a good heart and pure motives has a mistaken interpretation of Scripture, that “if his mistaken interpretation of Scripture tends to build up love, . . . he goes astray in much the same way as a man who by mistake quits the high road, but yet reaches through the fields the same place to which the road leads.”

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[sakazuki]

Remarkable! Thank you, I can barely find any videos about on christian doctrine by St. Augustine, and this provided just that.

[francisnwagu]

Thankyou, Gracias, Merci🙏. This has also helped me in my academic project titled "A Study of Augustine's Christian Teachings/Instruction, Hermeneutic Method, and Possible Lesson for Today's Preachers. Mutumese. Xie Xie