City of God

By: Augustine

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Paperback | 19 January 1958 | Edition Number 1

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No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than "City of God." Since medieval Europe was the cradle of today's Western civilization, this work by consequence is vital for understanding our world and how it came into being.
Saint Augustine is often regardarded as the most influential Christian thinker after Saint Paul, and "City of God "is his materpiece, a cast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian otherworldiness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire. Augustine produced a wealth of evidence to prove that paganism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Then he proceeded to his larger theme, a cosmic interpretation of in terms of the struggle between good and evilL the City of God in conflict with the Earthly City or the City of the Devil. This, the first serious attempt at a philosophy of history, was to have incalculable influence in forming the Western mind on the relations of church and state, and on the Christian's place in the temporal order.
The original "City of God" contained twenty-two books and filles three regular-sized volumes. This edition has been skillfully abridged for the intelligent general reader by Vernon J. Bourke, author of "Augustine's Quest for Wisdom," making the heart of this monumental work available to a wide audience.

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"The human mind can understand truth only by thinking, as is clear from Augustine." - Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Introduction	p. 7
Foreword	p. 13
The Problem of a Universal Society	p. 13
The City of God and Universal Society	p. 21
Christian Wisdom and a World Society	p. 33
The Pagan Gods and Earthly Happiness
Christianity Did Not Cause the Fall of Rome	p. 39
Pagan Gods Never Protected Men's Souls	p. 66
Physical Evils Were Not Prevented by the Gods	p. 78
Divine Justice and the Growth of the Roman Empire	p. 84
Providence and the Greatness of Rome	p. 99
The Pagan Gods and Future Happiness
Eternal Life and the Inadequacy of Polytheism	p. 119
Criticisms of Pagan Natural Theology	p. 135
Classical Philosophy and Refined Paganism	p. 144
Pagan Deities, Demons, and Christian Angels	p. 172
Christian Worship Contrasted with Platonic Theology	p. 186
The Origin of the Two Cities
Creation and the Two Societies of Angels	p. 205
Created Wills and the Distinction of Good and Evil	p. 244
Adam's Sin and Its Consequences	p. 269
Two Loves Originate Two Different Cities	p. 295
The Development of the Two Cities
The Two Cities in Early Biblical History	p. 323
The City of God from the Flood to King David	p. 363
From the Age of the Prophets to Christ's Birth	p. 378
The City of Man in Ancient History	p. 391
The Ends of the Two Cities
Philosophy and Christianity on Man's End	p. 427
Separation of the Two Cities in the Last Judgment	p. 483
End and Punishment of the Earthly City	p. 494
The Eternal Bliss of the City of God	p. 507
Index	p. 546
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