The City of GodOne of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western thought. Contrasting earthly and heavenly cities--representing the omnipresent struggle between good and evil--Augustine explores human history in its relation to all eternity. In Thomas Merton's words, "The City of God is the autobiography of the Church written by the most Catholic of her great saints." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition is a complete and unabridged version of the Marcus Dods translation. |
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Page 148
... born of two different mothers , at the same moment of time , under one and the same position of the stars , cannot have different fates which shall conduct them by necessity to diverse manners of life and of death ? Are they at ...
... born of two different mothers , at the same moment of time , under one and the same position of the stars , cannot have different fates which shall conduct them by necessity to diverse manners of life and of death ? Are they at ...
Page 488
... born very many men , by whose united numbers not one but several cities might have been built ? But it suited the purpose of God , by whose inspiration these histories were composed , to arrange and distinguish from the first these two ...
... born very many men , by whose united numbers not one but several cities might have been built ? But it suited the purpose of God , by whose inspiration these histories were composed , to arrange and distinguish from the first these two ...
Page 536
... born , all the earth being then divided . Nor ought we to be surprised that the giant Nimrod lived to the time in which Babylon was founded and the confusion of tongues occurred , and the consequent division of the earth . For though ...
... born , all the earth being then divided . Nor ought we to be surprised that the giant Nimrod lived to the time in which Babylon was founded and the confusion of tongues occurred , and the consequent division of the earth . For though ...
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