Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans

by Augustine , Edited by R. W. Dyson

• ISBN13: 9780521464758
• ISBN10: 0521464757
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781107702271
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780521468435
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilization. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative and fluent translation of De Civitate Dei, edited together with full biographical notes, a concise introduction, bibliography and chronology of Augustine's life. The result is an important contribution of interest to students of theology, philosophy, ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought and late antiquity.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(1)
Introduction	x	(20)
A brief chronology of Augustine's life	xxx	(1)
Bibliographical note	xxxi
The City of God against the Pagans
Book I	3	(48)
Book II	51	(43)
Book III	94	(49)
Book IV	143	(44)
Book V	187	(50)
Book VI	237	(30)
Book VII	267	(45)
Book VIII	312	(47)
Book IX	359	(31)
Book X	390	(59)
Book XI	449	(49)
Book XII	498	(43)
Book XIII	541	(40)
Book XIV	581	(53)
Book XV	634	(60)
Book XVI	694	(71)
Book XVII	765	(56)
Book XVIII	821	(88)
Book XIX	909	(56)
Book XX	965	(79)
Book XXI	1044	(63)
Book XXII	1107	(76)
Biographical notes	1183	(50)
Index	1233