Project Gutenberg 2014-04-08 Public domain in the USA. 3810 Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo 354 430 Augustine, Saint Dods, Marcus 1834 1909 Dodds, Marcus The City of God, Volume I Produced by Douglas L. Alley, III, Charlene Taylor, Joe C and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "The City of God, Volume I" by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine is a theological treatise written in the early 5th century. This work is an apology for Christianity following the fall of Rome, addressing the criticisms levied against Christians by pagans who attributed the calamities of the world to their religion. Augustine aims to defend the Christian faith and argue that true prosperity and virtue come from Christ, not from the worship of the Roman gods. The opening of "The City of God" details Augustine's response to pagan accusations that the sack of Rome by the Goths was a result of the Christian prohibition of idol worship. Augustine contends that the calamities experienced by Rome and its populace can be attributed instead to moral corruption and the failings of the pagan gods, drawing on historical examples to bolster his argument. He notes that many who have mocked Christians owe their very lives to the sanctuaries of Christianity during the siege, suggesting that those who survived did so not due to pagan deities but because of divine mercy. The tone of Augustine’s writing is both defensive and instructional, setting the stage for a rigorous philosophical and theological discourse throughout the rest of the volume. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45304/45304-h/images/titlepage.jpg en Apologetics -- Early works to 1800 Kingdom of God -- Early works to 1800 BR Text Browsing: History - Religious Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 1579666 1579675 2024-09-19T05:17:43.142015 2023-09-19T16:29:03.979322 text/html text/html 1614173 2014-04-08T13:07:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 551272 2014-04-08T13:08:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 587183 2024-09-19T05:18:01.727949 application/epub+zip 606673 2024-09-19T05:17:46.032019 application/epub+zip 606673 2024-09-19T05:17:44.576034 application/epub+zip 995084 2024-09-19T05:18:12.983889 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 928056 2024-09-19T05:17:59.940958 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 926995 2022-09-20T16:50:03.026118 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1357972 2024-09-19T05:17:40.583060 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1357446 2014-04-08T13:07:14 text/plain; charset=utf-8 487552 2014-04-08T13:08:28 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 1357412 2014-04-08T13:07:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 486761 2014-04-08T13:08:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1357642 2014-04-08T13:07:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 486609 2014-04-08T13:08:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22840 2024-09-19T05:18:13.139868 application/rdf+xml 6389 2024-09-19T05:17:44.759027 image/jpeg 1341 2024-09-19T05:17:44.670010 image/jpeg 547458 2024-09-19T05:17:43.266042 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia