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.


Select Letters of St. Jerome

Select Letters of St. Jerome

Author: F. A. Wright

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017473261

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An Analysis of St. Augustine's The City of God Against the Pagans

An Analysis of St. Augustine's The City of God Against the Pagans

Author: Jonathan D. Teubner

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-05-11

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 042981853X

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The City of God against the Pagans is a central text in the Western intellectual tradition. Made up of twenty-two lengthy books, Augustine wrote his masterpiece over a thirteen-year period during which the Western Roman Empire began to unravel. The first ten books are a critique of pagan religion and philosophy, while books eleven to twenty-two treat the relationship between the City of God and the Earthly City. Throughout Augustine conveys his mature vision of what it means for a Christian to live in a world with evil. Its arguments and ideas have provoked debate for nearly 1600 years, and remains a central text in the disciplines of theology, historiography, and political theory.


The Political Writings of St. Augustine

The Political Writings of St. Augustine

Author: Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

Publisher: Regnery Publishing

Published: 1996-09-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780895267047

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Here in one concise volume is St. Augustine's brilliant analysis of where faith and politics meet - casting a penetrating light on Roman civilization, the coming Middle Ages, ecclesiastical politics, and some of the most powerful ideas in the Western tradition, including Augustine's famous "just war theory" and his timeless ideas of how men should live in society.


Augustine in His Own Words

Augustine in His Own Words

Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 0813217431

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This volume offers a comprehensive portrait--or rather, self-portrait, since its words are mostly Augustine's own--drawn from the breadth of his writings and from the long course of his career