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   City of God

   • 1. Paradise, perceived as an ideal community in heaven.
   • ▪ the Christian Church.

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   Who wrote the city of God?

   • The City of God is a philosophical treatise written by St. Augustine in the early 5th century. It is considered a masterpiece of Western culture and is a response to pagan claims that the sack of Rome in 410 CE was a result of the abolition of pagan worship by Christian emperors.

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   What is the city of God?

   • “ The City of God we speak of is the same to which testimony is borne by that Scripture, which excels all the writings of all nations by its divine authority, and has brought under its influence all kinds of minds, and this not by a casual intellectual movement, but obviously by an express divine providential arrangement.

   The City of God: Augustine’s Timeless Classic About the Timeless City

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   Why is the city of God important?

   • The City of God was one of the most influential works of the Middle Ages. It would be read in various ways, at some points virtually as a founding document for a political order of kings and popes that Augustine could hardly have imagined.

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   Is the city of God a good book?

   • Overall, The City of God is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between the spiritual and the temporal, and its use of allegory makes it a rich and rewarding text to study. The City of God is a philosophical treatise written by Saint Augustine in response to the sack of Rome by the barbarians in 410 CE.

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   Why did Saint Augustine write the city of God?

   • The City of God, philosophical treatise vindicating Christianity, written by the medieval philosopher Saint Augustine about 413–426 CE. It was written in response to pagan claims that the sack of Rome by barbarians in 410 was one of the consequences of the abolition of pagan worship by Christian emperors.

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   What does the Bible say about the city of God?

   • As one might expect from its title, it contrasts “the City of God” with “the city of men.” But it also deals with creation, time, the origin of evil, human freedom, divine knowledge of the future, the resurrection of the body, final judgement, happiness, the Incarnation, sin, grace, and forgiveness (among others).

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   The City of God, philosophical treatise vindicating Christianity, written by the medieval philosopher St. Augustine as De civitate Dei contra paganos (Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans) about 413–426 ce.

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   On the City of God Against the Pagans (Latin: De civitate Dei contra paganos), often called The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD.

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   Nov 5, 2013 · Augustine was Christianity’s first great political thinker. His seminal work, The City of God (full title: De Civitate Dei contra Paganos = The City of God against the Pagans), as Greg Forster writes, is ”the first real masterpiece of Christian political thought.

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   The City of God is a philosophical treatise written by St. Augustine in the early 5th century. It is considered a masterpiece of Western culture and is a response to pagan claims that the sack of Rome in 410 CE was a result of the abolition of pagan worship by Christian emperors.

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   Augustine’s answer was The City of God. The book covers an astonishing range of topics. As one might expect from its title, it contrasts “the City of God” with “the city of men.”

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    Augustine presents the four essential elements of his philosophy in The City of God: the church, the state, the City of Heaven, and the City of the World. The church is divinely established and leads humankind to eternal goodness, which is God.

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    Jan 23, 2018 · What Is the City of God? The apostle John’s vision of a gigantic, golden city brings the book of Revelation to a dramatic conclusion. The vision recorded in Revelation 21:1-22:5 forms the climax to a series of amazing visions that reveal through rich imagery God’s plans for humanity and the world.