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1. How Augustin Writes in Answer to a Favor Asked by a Deacon of Carthage 2. 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 3. Of the Full Narration to Be Employed in Catechising 4. That the Great Reason for the Advent of Christ Was the Commendation of Love 5. That the Person Who Comes for Catechetical Instruction is to Be Examined with Respect to His Views, on Desiring to Become a Christian 6. 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 7. Of the Exposition of the Resurrection, the Judgment, and Other Subjects, Which Should Follow This Narration 8. Of the Method to Be Pursued in Catechising Those Who Have Had a Liberal Education 9. Of the Method in Which Grammarians and Professional Speakers are to Be Dealt with 10. Of the Attainment of Cheerfulness in the Duty of Catechising, and of Various Causes Producing Weariness in the Catechumen 11. Of the Remedy for the Second Source of Weariness 12. Of the Remedy for the Third Source of Weariness 13. Of the Remedy for the Fourth Source of Weariness 14. Of the Remedy Against the Fifth and Sixth Sources of Weariness 15. Of the Method in Which Our Address Should Be Adapted to Different Classes of Hearers 16. A Specimen of a Catechetical Address; And First, the Case of a Catechumen with Worthy Views 17. The Specimen of Catechetical Discourse Continued, in Reference Specially to the Reproval of False Aims on the Catechumen’s Part 18. Of What is to Be Believed on the Subject of the Creation of Man and Other Objects 19. Of the Co-Existence of Good and Evil in the Church, and Their Final Separation 20. Of Israel’s Bondage in Egypt, Their Deliverance, and Their Passage Through the Red Sea 21. Of the Babylonish Captivity, and the Things Signified Thereby 22. Of the Six Ages of the World 23. Of the Mission of the Holy Ghost Fifty Days After Christ’s Resurrection 24. Of the Church in Its Likeness to a Vine Sprouting and Suffering Pruning 25. Of Constancy in the Faith of the Resurrection 26. Of the Formal Admission of the Catechumen, and of the Signs Therein Made Use of 27. Of the Prophecies of the Old Testament in Their Visible Fulfillment in the Church
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St Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae 1265–1273
cites it 3 times I-II, q. 93, a. 6 · II-II, q. 26, a. 12 · II-II, q. 27, a. 1
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Philip Schaff (ed.), Buffalo/New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886-1889. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).
