This is one of the shorter treatises of Augustine’s that I’ve read and it’s also one of the simplest. This one was originally prepared as a sermon for Augustine to deliver to a group of young theologians. This was apparently a high honor for Augustine and it marked the beginning of his rise to real prominence in the church. Not long after this, he was installed as the second to the Bishop of Hippo and, only a couple of years after that, became the Bishop himself. This one is pretty well what it says on the tin. Augustine takes the Nicene Creed and just goes through it, statement by statement, and gives a brief, like one to two paragraph explication of each statement in turn. So, yes, this is one of Augustine’s most accessible works, but that’s mainly because it’s extremely simple and, while that is a virtue in some ways, it also means that it doesn’t have a whole lot of Augustine’s personality in it, either in stylistic terms or terms of subject matter. That doesn’t mean it’s bad and it is an interesting thing to note about Augustine that he was able to really tailor to his audience, but it’s also just pretty forgettable in his bibliography. 2 ½ stars.
tl;dr – very short, very simple sermon is a basic explication of the Nicene Creed; Augustine at his most accessible, but also at his least memorable. 2 ½ stars.