The City of God (audio)
Overview
Written between AD 413 and 426, The City of God is one of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian thought, a book vital to understanding modern Western society. Augustine originally intended it to be an apology for Christianity against the accusation that the Church was responsible for the decline of the Roman Empire. Indeed, Augustine produced a great amount of evidence to prove that paganism was responsible for this event. However, by the time the work was finished, the book had taken on a larger theme: a cosmic interpretation of history in terms of the conflict between good (the City of God) and evil (the Earthly City). Augustine foresees that, through the will of God, the people of the City of God will eventually win immortality, while those of the Earthly City will suffer destruction.
The runtime for this audio resource is 47 hours and 41 minutes.
The human mind can understand truth only by thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
—Saint Thomas Aquinas
The City of God is a monumental theology of history…his analysis is timeless and universal.
—Thomas Merton
- Title: The City of God (audio)
- Authors: Bernard Mayes, Marcus Dods, Augustine of Hippo
- Publishers: Blackstone Publishing, Craig Black
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Audio
- Subjects: Religion › Christianity--History; Religion › Christianity--Holidays see headings under Holidays; Religion › Christianity--Holy Spirit see Christian Theology--Pneumatology; Religion › Christian Theology--Apologetics; Religion › Christian Theology--History
- ISBNs: 9781483088242, 1483088243
- Resource ID: LLS:9781483088242
- Resource Type: Media
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-04-14T14:56:09Z
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