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008			930706s1993 nyu 001 0 eng
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050	0	4	_aBR65 _b.C589 1993
050	0	4	_aBR65
100	0		_aAugustine, _cSaint, Bishop of Hippo, _e1
245	1	0	_aThe city of God /Saint Augustine ; translated by Marcus Dods ; with an introduction by Thomas Merton.
250			_aModern Library edition.
260			_aNew York : _bModern Library, _c(c)1993.
300			_axvii, 892 pages ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_tAugustine censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and especially the sack of Rome by the Goths to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the gods -- _tReview of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time of Christ, showing that their gods had plunged them into corruption and vice -- _tExternal calamities of Rome -- _tThat empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the one true god -- _tOf fate, freewill, and God's prescience, and of the source of the virtues of the ancient Romans -- _tOf Varro's threefold division of theology, and of the inability of the gods to contribute anything to the happiness of the future life -- _tOf the "select gods" of the civil theology, and that eternal life is not obtained by worshipping them -- _tSome account of the Socratic and Platonic philosophy, and a refutation of the doctrine of Apuleius that the demons should be worshipped as mediators between the gods and men -- _tOf those who allege a distinction among demons, some being good and others evil -- _tPorphyry's doctrine of redemption -- _tAugustine passes to the second part of the work, in which the origin, progress and destinies of the earthly and heavenly cities are discussed -- _tSpeculations regarding the creation of the world -- _tOf the creation of angels and men, and of the origin of evil -- _tThat death is penal, and had its origin in Adam's sin -- _tOf the punishment and results of man's first sin, and of the propagation of man without lust -- _tProgress of the earthly and heavenly cities traced by the sacred history -- _tHistory of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel -- _tHistory of the city of God from the times of the prophets to Christ -- _tParallel history of the earthly and heavenly cities from the time of Abraham to the end of the world -- _tReview of the philosophical opinions regarding the supreme good, and a comparison of these opinions with the Christian belief regarding happiness -- _tOf the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New Testaments -- _tOf the eternal punishment of the wicked in hell, and of the various objections urged against it -- _tOf eternal happiness of the saints, the resurrection of the body, and the miracles of the early church.
520	0		_aSaint Augustine is often regardarded as the most influential Christian thinker after Saint Paul, and City of God is his materpiece, a cast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian otherworldiness 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 in terms of the struggle between good and evilL 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 on the relations of church and state, and on the Christians place in the temporal order. --
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650		0	_aKingdom of God _vEarly works to 1800.
650		0	_aApologetics _vEarly works to 1800.
700	1		_aDods, Marcus, _d1834-1909.
856	4	1	_3Sample text _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/93027971.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0411/93027971.html
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