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It is the first attempt at a philosophy of history, under the aspect of two rival cities or communities,-the eternal city of God and the perishing city of the world Rome having been stormed and sacked by the Goths under Alaric their king, 4 the worshippers of false gods, or pagans, as we commonly call them, made an attempt to attribute this calamity to the Christian religion, and began to ...
The book presents human history as a conflict between what Augustine calls the Earthly City (often colloquially referred to as the City of Man, and mentioned once on page 644, chapter 1 of book 15) and the City of God, a conflict that is destined to end in victory for the latter. The City of God is marked by people who forgo earthly pleasure to dedicate themselves to the eternal truths of God ...
The City of God is divided into 22 books. The first 10 refute the claims to divine power of various pagan communities . The last 12 retell the biblical story of humankind from Genesis to the Last Judgment , offering what Augustine presents as the true history of the City of God, against which, and only against which, the history of the City of Man, including the history of Rome, can be ...
832 reviews 167 followers. March 11, 2012. Augustine is widely considered the most important of the early church fathers. He was born in North Africa in 354 A.D., became the Bishop of Hippo and wrote a vast number of works—most notably Confessions, On Christian Doctrine, On the Trinity, and City of God.
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The City of God is a response to that question, although Augustine calls his treatise a defense of "the most glorious City of God," sidestepping the question as originally phrased. Book 1 is a response to the Roman critics of Christianity who blamed the destruction of their city by Alaric (c. 370–410 CE) and the Goths (Visigoths) in 410 on ...
The City of God (De Civitate Dei): Books 1–10. Written by Augustine Reviewed By Gregory W. Lee. History and Historical Theology. City of God is the longest text centered on a single argument to have survived from Greco-Roman antiquity. The challenges of translating such a work arise not just from the brute size of the task, but also from the ...
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