Augustine: de Civitate Dei the City of God Books III and IV

Augustine: de Civitate Dei the City of God Books III and IV
ISBN-10
0856687588
ISBN-13
9780856687587
Series
Augustine
Category
Religion
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
2007-08-30
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Author
Patrick Gerard Walsh

Description

This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods.Text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary. (Aris & Phillips 2007)

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