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| Other authors / contributors: | Dods, Marcus, 1834-1909, translator.
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968, writer of introduction.
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| Notes: | "Books IV, XVII, and XVIII translated by the Rev. George Wilson ... Books V, VI, VII, and VIII by the Rev. J.J. Smith."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | 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 Christianʹs place in the temporal order. -- Description from http://www.amazon.co.uk/ (Dec. 10, 2012).
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| Other form: | Online version: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. City of God. New York, Modern Library [1950]
Online version: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. City of God. New York, Modern Library [1950]
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