Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide

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Oxford University Press, 2020 - 360 עמודים
b The most influential of Augustine's works, iCity of God/i played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. /b

Augustine wrote City of God in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, at a time of rapid Christianization across the Roman Empire. Gerard O'Daly's book remains the most comprehensive modern guide in any language to this seminal work of European literature.

In this new and extensively revised edition, O'Daly takes into account the abundant scholarship on Augustine in the twenty years since its first publication, while retaining the book's focus on Augustine as a writer in the Latin tradition. He explores the many themes of City of God, which include cosmology, political thought, anti-pagan polemic, Christian apologetic, theory of history, and biblical interpretation. This guide, therefore, is about a single literary masterpiece, yet at the same time it surveys Augustine's developing views through the whole range of his thought. As well as a running commentary on each part of the work, O'Daly provides chapters on the themes of the work, a bibliographical guide to research on its reception, translations of any Greek and Latin texts discussed, and detailed suggestions for further reading.

 

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Cities Real and Desired
1
The Making of the Book
28
The Apologetic Tradition
42
The Theme of the Two Cities
57
The Structure of the City of God and a Summary of its Contents
72
Where Were the Gods? Books 15
96
Varro Platonists and Demons Books 610
124
Creation the Fall and the Regime of the Passions Books 1114
164
Influences and Sources
266
The Place of the City of God in Augustines Writings
298
The Title De Civitate Dei
307
Manuscripts Editions and Reception
309
Breviculus Capitula and Canon
311
The Chronology in City 18 54
313
Bibliography
315
Index Locorum
347

The History of the Two Cities Books 1518
189
Final Destinations Books 1922
225

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Gerard O'Daly, Emeritus Professor of Latin, University College London Gerard O'Daly read Classics at University College Dublin and has a doctorate in Plotinus from Berne University, Switzerland. Now retired, Gerard O'Daly has taught at the Universities of Lancaster, Würzburg, and Nottingham. He is a former Professor of Latin at University College London and former Dean of its Faculty of Arts and Humanities. His research focuses on philosophy and literature in the Roman Empire between AD 200 and 500.

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