Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide (Paperback)
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Short Description for Augustine's City of God 'Augustine's City of God', written in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, is one of the key works in the formation of Western culture. This book provides a detailed running commentary on the text, with chapters on the political, social, literary, and religious background.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 08 April 2004
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
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- Categories: Linguistics | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Christianity | Christian Theology
- ISBN 13: 9780199270811 ISBN 10: 0199270813
- Sales rank: 563,489
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Full description for Augustine's City of God
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.
