Augustine: de Civitate Dei the City of God Books XV and XVI
Augustine: de Civitate Dei the City of God Books XV and XVI

Author: Augustine

Publisher: Aris and Phillips Classical Te

Published: 2018-06-25

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1786940175

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This volume continues P. G. Walsh's admired translation with commentary of Augustine's City of God. Books I-XIV which have been published in eight earlier volumes between 2003 and 2016, and this ninth volume in the collection looks at books XV and XVI. After completing the first ten books of De Civitate Dei, in which Augustine sought to refute the claim that pagan deities had ensured that Rome enjoyed unbroken success and prosperity in this life and guaranteed its citizens a blessed life after death, Augustine devoted the remaining twelve books to discuss the origins, development and destiny of the two cities of Babylon and Jerusalem, with the predominant emphasis on the city of God. This is the only edition of these books in English which provides not only a text but also a detailed commentary on one of the most influential documents in the history of western Christianity.

Augustine: de Civitate Dei the City of God Books XI and XII
Augustine: de Civitate Dei the City of God Books XI and XII

Author: P. G. Walsh

Publisher: Aris and Phillips Classical Te

Published: 2015-03-31

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 085668872X

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In Books I-V of De Civitate Dei , Augustine rejects the claim that worship of the pagan gods had brought success in this life, and in Books VI-X, the prospect of a happy afterlife. In Books XI-XII, the seventh volume in Peter Walsh's series, Augustine turns from attack to defence, for at this point he initiates his apology for the Christian faith. Books XI and XII document the initial phase of the rise of the two cities, the city of God and the city of this world, beginning with the creation of the world and the human race. In Book XI, Augustine rejects the theories of Aristotle, Plato and the Epicureans on the creation of the universe and addresses the creation of angels, Satan, the role of the holy Trinity and the importance of numberology in the Genesis account. In Book XII Augustine is chiefly concerned with refuting standard objections to the Christian tradition, returning to discussion of the Creation, including his calculation, based on the scriptures, that the world was created less than 6,000 years ago. This is the only edition of these books in English that provides not only a text but also a detailed commentary on one of the most influential documents in the history of western Christianity.

Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 1-5
Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 1-5

Author: Gillian Clark

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780198870074

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This authoritative English-language commentary discusses Books 1-5, in which Augustine argued that Rome suffered worse disasters before Christianity was known; that empire depends on injustice; and that everything depends on the will of the true God, not on the many gods of Roman tradition.

Augustine: de Civitate Dei the City of God Books XIII and XIV
Augustine: de Civitate Dei the City of God Books XIII and XIV

Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)

Publisher: Aris and Phillips Classical Te

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0856688770

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After completing the first ten books of De Civitate Dei, in which Augustine sought to refute the claim that pagan deities had ensured that Rome enjoyed unbroken success and prosperity in this life and guaranteed its citizens a blessed life after death, Augustine devoted the remaining twelve books to discuss the origins, development and destiny of the two cities of Babylon and Jerusalem, with the predominant emphasis on the city of God. In this volume, the seventh in Peter Walsh's series, Augustine turns to the problem of death as punishment for the sin of disobedience, resumes his attack on the Platonists and pursues a range of topics which emerge from consideration of Adam's sin. This is the only edition of these books in English which provides not only a text but also a detailed commentary on one of the most influential documents in the history of western Christianity.

Augustine: de Civitate Dei the City of God Book X
Augustine: de Civitate Dei the City of God Book X

Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)

Publisher: Aris and Phillips Classical Te

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 0856688495

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This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods. Following on from Book IX, this book discusses the issue of demons and their role in Platonism as being partly identical with the lesser gods. Having previously argued that in order to achieve the blessed life, we must worship one true God alone, Augustine now continues his discussion using the celebrated Neoplatonist Porphyry as his main source. Whilst applauding aspects of Porphyry's views, Augustine's main concern is to deliver his message that the sole path to blessedness after death is acknowledgement of the Incarnation and Christ as Mediator. Increasingly concerned with promoting the Christian message, Augustine cites the Bible frequently in book X. Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's City of God
The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's City of God

Author: David Vincent Meconi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1108422519

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Masterfully explains Augustine's major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.

Augustine's City of God
Augustine's City of God

Author: Gerard O'Daly

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1999-04-02

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0191591165

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The City of God is the most influential of Augustine's works, which played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. This book is the first comprehensive modern guide to it in any language. The City of God's scope embodies cosmology, psychology, political thought, anti-pagan polemic, Christian apologetic, theory of history, biblical interpretation, and apocalyptic themes. This book is, therefore, at once about a single masterpiece and at the same time surveys Augustine's developing views through the whole range of his thought. The book is written in the form of a detailed running commentary on each part of the work. Further chapters elucidate the early fifth-century political, social, historical, and literary background, the work's sources, and its place in Augustine's writings.The book should prove of value to Augustine's wide readership among students of late antiquity, theologians, philosophers, medievalists, Renaissance scholars, and historians of art and iconography.

Augustine's City of God
Augustine's City of God

Author: James Wetzel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-04

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0521199948

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This volume addresses the complex and conflicted vision in Augustine's City of God, as a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage.