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City of God, Volume IV: Books 12-15 Hardback - 1966

Name: City of God: v. 4: Bks.XII-XV
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by Augustine; Philip Levine (Translator)

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Summary

This collection brings together thirty-five letters and sermons of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430 AD, that deal with political matters. The letters and sermons are both practical and principled and treat many essential themes in Augustine's thought, including the responsibilities of citizenship, the relationship between the church and secular authority, religious coercion, and war and peace. These texts complement Augustine's classic The City of God against the Pagans (also available in the Cambridge Texts series), and give students direct insight into the political and social world of late antiquity with which Augustine was immediately involved. The slave trade, tax collection, clerical harassment and murder are amongst the topics with which he deals. The volume contains clear, accurate modern translations, together with a concise introduction and informative notes designed to aid the student encountering Augustine's life and thought for the first time.

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From the publisher

A Church Father's theological citadel.

Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica. While studying to become a rhetorician, he plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts, leading him to Manichaeism. In 383 he moved to Rome and then Milan to teach rhetoric. Despite exploring classical philosophical systems, especially skepticism and Neoplatonism, his studies of Paul's letters with his friend Alypius, and the preaching of Bishop Ambrose, led in 386 to his momentous conversion from mixed beliefs to Christianity. He soon returned to Tagaste and founded a religious community, and in 395 or 396 became bishop of Hippo.

From Augustine's large output the Loeb Classical Library offers that great autobiography the Confessions (in two volumes); On the City of God (seven volumes), which unfolds God's action in the progress of the world's history, and propounds the superiority of Christian beliefs over pagan in adversity; and a selection of Letters which are important for the study of ecclesiastical theologians.

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Title City of God, Volume IV: Books 12-15
Author Augustine; Philip Levine (Translator)
Binding Hardback
Edition abridged edition
Pages 592
Volumes 1
Language LAT
Publisher Harvard University Press
Publication date January 1, 1966
Abridged Yes
Features Abridged, Dust Cover
ISBN 9780674994560 / 0674994566
Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
Dimensions 6.72 x 4.54 x 1.22 in (17.07 x 11.53 x 3.10 cm)
Themes
- Religious Orientation: Catholic
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Theometrics: Classic
- Topical: Home School
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Dewey Decimal Code 239.3