An edition of De civitate Dei (1440)

The city of God against the pagans

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An edition of De civitate Dei (1440)

The city of God against the pagans

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This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilisation. When he began to write The City of God in 413, St. Augustine's intention was to defend the Christian Church against the charge of having brought about the Sack of Rome in 410.

Outgrowing this initial purpose, the work evolved into a detailed critique of the political and moral tradition of Rome and a synthesis of Platonism and Christianity which must stand as one of the most significant achievements in Western intellectual history. Apart from its intrinsic interest the Christian account of social and political relations which Augustine gives was to furnish one of the most fertile sources of material for the controversial literature of the middle ages. R. W.

Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative and fluent translation of The City of God, edited together with full biographical notes, a concise introduction, bibliographical note and chronology of Augustine's life.

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1243

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Cover of: The city of God against the pagans
The city of God against the pagans
1998, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: The city of God
The city of God
1993, Modern Library
in English - Modern Library ed.
Cover of: Conc erning the City of God against the pagans
Conc erning the City of God against the pagans
1984, Penguin Books
in English - Reprinted with a new introd.
Cover of: The city of God against the pagans
The city of God against the pagans
1965, Heinemann
Cover of: The city of God
The city of God
1950, Modern Library
in English
Cover of: The City of God
The City of God
1950, Fathers of the Church, inc.
in English
Cover of: St. Augustine's treatise on the city of God, abridged by F.R. Montgomery Hitchcock.
Cover of: The city of God.
Cover of: The city of God
Cover of: De civitate dei, libri XXII
De civitate dei, libri XXII
1877, In aedibus B.G. Teubneri

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxi-xxxiii) and index.

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Cambridge, New York
Series
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
239/.3
Library of Congress
BR65.A64 E5 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiii, 1243 p. ;
Number of pages
1243

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL691600M
Internet Archive
cityofgodagainst0000augu_p2b5
ISBN 10
0521464757, 0521468434
LCCN
97038751
OCLC/WorldCat
37761875
Library Thing
35109
Goodreads
4704443
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