De Civitate Dei Books III and IV
Augustine and P.G. Walsh
Abstract
This edition of St. Augustine's The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, Augustine offers a Christian perspective on the growth of Rome, which its pagan apologists attribute to the providential protection of its gods. Book III spotlights both the injustices inflicted and the privations endured by the Romans, thus rebutting such claims. Book IV offers a withering account of the Roman deities, basing its analysis on the r ... More
Keywords: western Christianity, Rome, Romans, Roman history, Roman religion, St. Augustine
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780856687594 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: February 2021 | DOI:10.3828/liverpool/9780856687594.001.0001 |
