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  2. 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 ...

  3. The Confessions, City of God, and selected letters are available in the Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press); a great many titles have appeared over the last fifty years in the series Fathers of the Church (The Catholic University of America Press); and a new series, The Works of St. Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, edited by John Rotelle, OSA, has begun appearing.

  4. City of God, with its jumbled piecemeal style of conveying a story having a number of different themes and contextual strands, follows certain contemporary patterns of literary experimentation ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Overview. City of God is a major fifth-century work of philosophy and theology by Augustine of Hippo, written in response to political and religious developments in the Roman Empire. Its original title is De civitate Dei contra paganos (“On the City of God Against the Pagans”), but it is conventionally referred to in English as City of God.

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  8. 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 ...