City of God
$38.75
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1987
Summary
No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than City of God. Since medieval Europe was the cradle of today’s Western civilization, this work by consequence is vital for understanding our world and how it came into being.
Saint Augustine is often regarded as the most influential Christian thinker after Saint Paul, and City of God is his masterpiece, a vast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian othe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385029100 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385029101 |
| Author: | St. Augustine |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Image |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1987 |
| Weight: | 556g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 41mm |
| Series: | Image Classics |
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“The human mind can understand truth only by thinking, as is clear from Augustine.” Saint Thomas Aquinas
“The human mind can understand truth only by thinking, as is clear from Augustine.”
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
About The Author
St. Augustine
Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430)
Augustine of Hippo is among the most influential cultural figures of all time. His development of Christian theology during the formative fourth and fifth centuries shaped church teaching for future generations.
Ascending to influence as a teacher of rhetoric in Hippo, Rome, and Milan, Augustine initially embraced Manichean religion, and later came under the influence of Neoplatonism. In AD 387, however, his life dramatically changed direction with his conversion to Christianity.
After his conversion, he returned to his native North Africa, where he was ordained a priest and later made a bishop. As leader of the Church in Hippo, he preached widely and wrote voluminous biblical commentaries and apologetic works defending Christian faith against its rivals and detractors, along with more personal and pastoral works, such as Confessions.
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