# De catechizandis rudibus teaches how to instruct candidates for baptism as a public pedagogy

Date: 400

## The fact

De catechizandis rudibus, as later transmitted, tells a Carthaginian deacon how to instruct unbaptised hearers without wearying them. The instrument is that pedagogy. It is not Confessions and not a modern curriculum statute. Later catechisms are reception. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He wrote the handbook for Deogratias of Carthage as later titled. Catechists used it. He did not found a unique Sunday school chain.

## Context

Deogratias is the named addressee. Sharing Carthage's catechumenate with him is required. Baptism 387 is Augustine's own entry; this is teaching others to enter. Donatist rivalry over baptism is a neighbouring polemical file. The setting of De catechizandis rudibus teaches how to instruct candidates for baptism as a public pedagogy is the public file around 0400-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, catechesis neighbourhood at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Britannica — Saint Augustine, De catechizandis rudibus neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, catechesis neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Britannica — Saint Augustine, De catechizandis rudibus neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, catechesis neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Improving path from De catechizandis rudibus teaches how to instruct candidates for baptism as a public pedagogy on 0400-01-01. A public catechetical handbook is an education path of medium weight. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin with De doctrina as a second identical hermeneutics book. One is for readers of Scripture; this is for newcomers. Mixed effects of De catechizandis rudibus teaches how to instruct candidates for baptism as a public pedagogy are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of De catechizandis rudibus teaches how to instruct candidates for baptism as a public pedagogy under 0400-01-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of De catechizandis rudibus teaches how to instruct candidates for baptism as a public pedagogy under 0400-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of De catechizandis rudibus teaches how to instruct candidates for baptism as a public pedagogy. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0400-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Augustine Of Hippo: https://factrail.ai/people/augustine-of-hippo

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-de-catechizandis
