↠ The City of God || Ý PDF Download by ☆ Augustine of Hippo Vernon J. Bourke Étienne Gilson Gerald G. Walsh Demetrius B. Zema Grace Monahan Daniel J. Honan
No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than The City of God As medieval Europe was the cradle of modern Western society, this work is vital for understanding our world how it came into being Augustine may be the most influential Christian thinker after Paul This is his masterpiece, a vast synthesis of religious secular knNo book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than The City of God As medieval Europe was the cradle of modern Western society, this work is vital for understanding our world how it came into being Augustine may be the most influential Christian thinker after Paul This is his masterpiece, a vast synthesis of religious secular knowledge It began as a reply to the charge that Christian other worldliness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire Augustine produced a wealth of evidence to prove that paganism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction Then he proceeded to his larger theme, a cosmic interpretation of history in terms of the struggle between good evil the City of God in conflict with the Earthly City or the City of the Devil This, the first serious attempt at a philosophy of history, was to have incalculable influence in forming the Western mind.The City of God contained 22 books, filling 3 regular sized volumes Augustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world especially the sack of Rome by the Goths to the Christian religion its prohibition of the worship of the gods Review of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time of Christ, showing that their gods had plunged them into corruption viceExternal calamities of Rome That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the one true godOf fate, freewill, God s prescience of the source of the virtues of the ancient Romans Of Varro s 3fold division of theology, of the inability of the gods to contribute anything to the happiness of the future lifeOf the select gods of the civil theology, that eternal life is not obtained by worshipping them Some account of the Socratic Platonic philosophy a refutation of the doctrine of Apuleius that the demons should be worshipped as mediators between gods menOf those who allege a distinction among demons, some being good others evil Porphyry s doctrine of redemption Augustine passes to the 2nd part of the work, in which the origin, progress destinies of the earthly heavenly cities are discussedSpeculations regarding the creation of the world Of the creation of angels men, of the origin of evilThat death is penal had its origin in Adam s sin Of the punishment results of man s first sin, of the propagation of man w out lust Progress of the earthly heavenly cities traced by the sacred history History of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel History of the city of God from the times of the prophets to Christ Parallel history of the earthly heavenly cities from the time of Abraham to the end of the world Review of the philosophical opinions regarding the supreme good, a comparison of these opinions with the Christian belief regarding happiness Of the last judgment, the declarations regarding it in the Old New Testaments Of the eternal punishment of the wicked in hell of the various objections urged against it Of eternal happiness of the saints, the resurrection of the body the miracles of the early church

Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, in English Augustine of Hippo, also known as St Augustine, St Austin, was bishop of Hippo Regius present day Annaba, Algeria He was a Latin philosopher and theologian from the Africa Province of the Roman Empire and is generally considered as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all times His writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity According to his contemporary Jerome, Augustine established anew the ancient Faith In his early years he was heavily influenced by Manichaeism and afterward by the Neo Platonism of Plotinus After his conversion to Christianity and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of methods and different perspectives He believed that the grace of Christ was indispensable to human freedom, and he framed the concepts of original sin and just war When the Western Roman Empire was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Catholic Church as a spiritual City of God in a book of the same name , distinct from the material Earthly City His thoughts profoundly influenced the medieval worldview Augustine s City of God was closely identified with the Church, the community that worshiped the Trinity In the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, he is a saint and pre eminent Doctor of the Church Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of the Protestant Reformation due to his teaching on salvation and divine grace In the Eastern Orthodox Church he is also considered a saint He carries the additional title of Blessed Among the Orthodox, he is called Blessed Augustine or St Augustine the Blessed.
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↠ The City of God || Ý PDF Download by ☆ Augustine of Hippo Vernon J. Bourke Étienne Gilson Gerald G. Walsh Demetrius B. Zema Grace Monahan Daniel J. Honan
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Title: ↠ The City of God || Ý PDF Download by ☆ Augustine of Hippo Vernon J. Bourke Étienne Gilson Gerald G. Walsh Demetrius B. Zema Grace Monahan Daniel J. Honan
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