City Of God (Unabridged) By St. Augustine
About The Augustine.City of God (Unabridged)A spiritual masterpieceBy the beloved Saint Augustine of HippoThe first serious attempt at a philosophy of history No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than City of God
Then he proceeded to his larger theme, a cosmic interpretation of history in terms of the struggle between good and evil: the City of God in conflict with the Earthly City or the City of the Devil. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian otherworldliness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire. Augustine's masterpiece is an interpretation of history in terms of the struggle between good and evil: the City of God in conflict with the City of the Devil. Since medieval Europe was the cradle of today's Western civilization, this work by consequence is vital for an understanding of our world and how it came into being. City of God (Unabridged)A spiritual masterpieceBy the beloved Saint Augustine of HippoThe first serious attempt at a philosophy of history No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than City of God. , City of God (Unabridged) by St. St. Paul, and this book is his masterpiece, a vast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. Augustine is often regarded as the most influential Christian thinker after St. 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. Augustine produced a wealth of evidence to prove that paganism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Augustine St.
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