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City of God by St. Augustine (1958, Paperback) 
City of God by St. Augustine (1958, Paperback)

 
City of God by St. Augustine (1958, Paperback)

Publisher: Image Books
Publication Date: 1958-06-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0385029101
ISBN-13: 9780385029100
Product ID: EPID63651
Description: Saint Augustine, who spent 14 years composing this Christian and literary classic, wrote "City of God" as a defense of Christianity in the wake of the fall of the Roman Empire. "City of God" functions as a history of early Christianity, ...
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Synopsis
Saint Augustine, who spent 14 years composing this Christian and literary classic, wrote "City of God" as a defense of Christianity in the wake of the fall of the Roman Empire. "City of God" functions as a history of early Christianity, a critique of Roman polytheism, and a philosophy of history. Its central theme is the duality of good and evil. Augustine proposes a universal religious society, or "the perfectly ordered and harmonious communion of those who find their joy in God, and in one another in God."

Details
Publication Date:1958-06-01

Size
Height:7.0 in
Width:4.3 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:11.2 oz

Publisher's Note
No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's The City of God. And since medieval Europe was the cradle of modern Western society, this work is vital for understanding our world and how it came into being.

St. Augustine's masterpiece is an interpretation of history in terms of the struggle between good and evil: the City of God in conflict with the City of the Devil. Abridged for the modern reader.

Industry Reviews
"Here is a book that was written over fifteen hundred years ago by a mystic in North Africa. Yet to those who have ears to hear, it has a great deal to say to many of us who are not mystics, today, in America....'The City of God' is the autobiography of the Church written by the most Catholic of her great saints....'The City of God', for those who can understand it, contains the secret of death and life, war and peace, hell and heaven."
Thomas Merton

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