{"product_id":"the-city-of-god","title":"The City of God: Complete in Four Volumes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe two cities: the earthly, founded on the love of self, and the heavenly, founded on the love of God.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:1.6em 0 .4em;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAll four volumes are available now.\u003c\/strong\u003e Volume One in paperback; Volumes Two, Three and Four in paperback or hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eEach volume is ordered separately, and orders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. This page is a catalogue listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirteen years in the writing, and the largest work of Augustine's life, \u003cem\u003eThe City of God\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe volumes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-top:1px solid #e4dccd;margin:.5em 0 1.8em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume I  ·  Books I to VII\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eAugustine 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:12px 0 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=f2yjHAUiHsXcJyFZ9zvmJL9HWFHdFsK53QkXbEr7Y7A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:11px 22px;margin:0 10px 4px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:#3D2E1E;color:#F8F4EA;\"\u003eBuy the Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#a0917d;font-style:italic;\"\u003eHardcover not yet released.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume II  ·  Books VIII to XIV\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:12px 0 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=8BJCkhhQKL7q1AvtkW5mFPPKMi1eYSlAGONFP7daKIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:11px 22px;margin:0 10px 4px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:#3D2E1E;color:#F8F4EA;\"\u003eBuy the Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=OmUV5KXUSuUvSWszJVYA8FC6E4tgTF5DWj7VengNA5G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:11px 22px;margin:0 10px 4px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:transparent;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eBuy the Hardcover\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume III  ·  Books XV to XIX\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:12px 0 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=Qxx2kYtl7OiaurZE49ocWbXuhmOscJqaXcfPX4n86UQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:11px 22px;margin:0 10px 4px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:#3D2E1E;color:#F8F4EA;\"\u003eBuy the Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=wxhiKGpaYJXoeU6b8g52a29pFaFvWXIh2Ujvla7VTGI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:11px 22px;margin:0 10px 4px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:transparent;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eBuy the Hardcover\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume IV  ·  Books XX to XXII\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:12px 0 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=tc01xD0u1PAJzqkjvwmXPokjBQmrhhwb3YIY32xPv7j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:11px 22px;margin:0 10px 4px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:#3D2E1E;color:#F8F4EA;\"\u003eBuy the Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=iFB9wL6P0kmQMCtzJrmIQoxckkLnBVRhluKom67q1zv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:11px 22px;margin:0 10px 4px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:transparent;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eBuy the Hardcover\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), Bishop of Hippo Regius and Doctor of the Church\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated by Marcus Dods, 1871\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComplete, all twenty-two Books, in four volumes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, Heritage Editions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, cream paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:1.6em 0 0;\"\u003eCover: \u003cem\u003eSaint Augustine on Clouds Surrounded by Angels\u003c\/em\u003e, Johann Jacob Eybelwieser (Austrian, c. 1667–1744). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2010. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border:0;border-top:1px solid #e4dccd;margin:2.2em 0 1.6em;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:1.6em 0 .4em;\"\u003eEach volume is ordered separately, from the list above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOrders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. This page is a catalogue listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Sanctified Souls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53031673790745,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/4616\/0921\/files\/aug-city-of-god-vol-1.jpg?v=1787249343","url":"https:\/\/sanctifiedsouls.com\/products\/the-city-of-god","provider":"Sanctified Souls","version":"1.0","type":"link"}