Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans

by Augustine , Edited by R. W. Dyson

• ISBN13: 9780521468435
• ISBN10: 0521468434
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781107702271
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780521464758
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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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

Introduction

A chronology of Augustine's life

Bibliographical note

The City of God against the Pagans

Biographical notes

Index.