City of God, composed in the early fifth century, is one of the great classics of western culture. Augustine was a teacher of rhetoric before he was bishop of H

The City of God is the most influential of Augustine's works, which played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. This book is the first compre

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In Books I-V of De Civitate Dei , Augustine rejects the claim that worship of the pagan gods had brought success in this life, and in Books VI-X, the prospect o