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The City of God
The City of God
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The City of God
The City of God
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No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than The City of God. As medieval Europe was the cradle of modern Western society, this work is vital for understanding our world & how it came into being. Augustine may be the most influential Christian thinker after Paul. This is his masterpiece, a vast synthesis of religious & secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian other-worldliness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire. Aug…
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  • Autorius: Saint Augustine
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  • Metai: 2018
  • Puslapiai: 700
  • ISBN-10: 2322089737
  • ISBN-13: 9782322089734
  • Formatas: ePub
  • Kalba: Anglų

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No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than The City of God. As medieval Europe was the cradle of modern Western society, this work is vital for understanding our world & how it came into being.
Augustine may be the most influential Christian thinker after Paul. This is his masterpiece, a vast synthesis of religious & secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian other-worldliness 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 history in terms of the struggle between good & evil: 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.
The City of God contained 22 books, filling 3 regular-sized volumes.
Augustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world & especially the sack of Rome by the Goths to the Christian religion & its prohibition of the worship of the gods
Review of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time of Christ, showing that their gods had plunged them into corruption & vice
External calamities of Rome
That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the one true god
Of fate, freewill, God's prescience & of the source of the virtues of the ancient Romans
Of Varro's 3fold division of theology, & of the inability of the gods to contribute anything to the happiness of the future life
Of the "select gods" of the civil theology, & that eternal life is not obtained by worshipping them
Some account of the Socratic & Platonic philosophy & a refutation of the doctrine of Apuleius that the demons should be worshipped as mediators between gods & men
Of those who allege a distinction among demons, some being good & others evil
Porphyry's doctrine of redemption
Augustine passes to the 2nd part of the work, in which the origin, progress & destinies of the earthly & heavenly cities are discussed
Speculations regarding the creation of the world
Of the creation of angels & men, & of the origin of evil
That death is penal & had its origin in Adam's sin
Of the punishment & results of man's first sin, & of the propagation of man w/out lust
Progress of the earthly & heavenly cities traced by the sacred history
History of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel
History of the city of God from the times of the prophets to Christ
Parallel history of the earthly & heavenly cities from the time of Abraham to the end of the world
Review of the philosophical opinions regarding the supreme good, & a comparison of these opinions with the Christian belief regarding happiness
Of the last judgment, & the declarations regarding it in the Old & New Testaments
Of the eternal punishment of the wicked in hell & of the various objections urged against it
Of eternal happiness of the saints, the resurrection of the body & the miracles of the early church
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No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than The City of God. As medieval Europe was the cradle of modern Western society, this work is vital for understanding our world & how it came into being.
Augustine may be the most influential Christian thinker after Paul. This is his masterpiece, a vast synthesis of religious & secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian other-worldliness 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 history in terms of the struggle between good & evil: 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.
The City of God contained 22 books, filling 3 regular-sized volumes.
Augustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world & especially the sack of Rome by the Goths to the Christian religion & its prohibition of the worship of the gods
Review of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time of Christ, showing that their gods had plunged them into corruption & vice
External calamities of Rome
That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the one true god
Of fate, freewill, God's prescience & of the source of the virtues of the ancient Romans
Of Varro's 3fold division of theology, & of the inability of the gods to contribute anything to the happiness of the future life
Of the "select gods" of the civil theology, & that eternal life is not obtained by worshipping them
Some account of the Socratic & Platonic philosophy & a refutation of the doctrine of Apuleius that the demons should be worshipped as mediators between gods & men
Of those who allege a distinction among demons, some being good & others evil
Porphyry's doctrine of redemption
Augustine passes to the 2nd part of the work, in which the origin, progress & destinies of the earthly & heavenly cities are discussed
Speculations regarding the creation of the world
Of the creation of angels & men, & of the origin of evil
That death is penal & had its origin in Adam's sin
Of the punishment & results of man's first sin, & of the propagation of man w/out lust
Progress of the earthly & heavenly cities traced by the sacred history
History of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel
History of the city of God from the times of the prophets to Christ
Parallel history of the earthly & heavenly cities from the time of Abraham to the end of the world
Review of the philosophical opinions regarding the supreme good, & a comparison of these opinions with the Christian belief regarding happiness
Of the last judgment, & the declarations regarding it in the Old & New Testaments
Of the eternal punishment of the wicked in hell & of the various objections urged against it
Of eternal happiness of the saints, the resurrection of the body & the miracles of the early church

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