The City of God: Complete in Four Volumes
The City of God: Complete in Four Volumes
The two cities: the earthly, founded on the love of self, and the heavenly, founded on the love of God.
All four volumes are available now. Volume One in paperback; Volumes Two, Three and Four in paperback or hardcover.
Each volume is ordered separately, and orders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. This page is a catalogue listing.
About this edition
Thirteen years in the writing, and the largest work of Augustine's life, The City of God was begun in 413, three years after the Goths sacked Rome, and finished in 426. The pagans had blamed the fall of the eternal city on the Christian faith; Augustine answered them, and out of that answer built a defence of Christianity that grows into a history and a philosophy of the whole human race.
Its theme is the two cities, the earthly founded on the love of self and the heavenly founded on the love of God, whose intertwined course runs from the fall of the angels to the resurrection of the dead.
This Sanctified Souls Press edition sets the complete text of all twenty-two Books in the classic translation of Marcus Dods, 1871, in four volumes on cream paper, for reading and keeping.
The volumes
Augustine turns back the charge against the Christians, and shows that the gods of Rome had secured the city neither from earthly disaster nor in the hope of the life to come. Paperback and hardcover, 332 pages.
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The philosophers and the Platonists weighed, and the demons they revered; then the history of the two cities opens with the creation of the world, the angels, and the fall of man. Paperback and hardcover, 330 pages.
The two cities followed through the whole course of sacred history, from Cain and Abel to the prophets, and brought at last to their ends: the supreme good and the true peace of the city of God. Paperback and hardcover, 322 pages.
The last things: the judgment foretold in the Old and New Testaments, the eternal punishment of the lost, and the everlasting blessedness of the saints and the resurrection of the body. Paperback and hardcover, 292 pages.
Details
- Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), Bishop of Hippo Regius and Doctor of the Church
- Translated by Marcus Dods, 1871
- Complete, all twenty-two Books, in four volumes
- Sanctified Souls, Heritage Editions
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, cream paper
Cover: Saint Augustine on Clouds Surrounded by Angels, Johann Jacob Eybelwieser (Austrian, c. 1667–1744). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2010. Public domain.
Each volume is ordered separately, from the list above.
Orders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. This page is a catalogue listing.
