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Books That Matter: The City of God

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<p>Travel chapter by chapter through Augustine's masterpiece, as an award-winning professor introduces you to the book's key arguments, as well as the historical context necessary to comprehend The City of God's true power.</p>

Syllabus

  • 01: Your Passport to The City of God
  • 02: Who Was Augustine of Hippo?
  • 03: The Sack of Rome, 410 A.D.
  • 04: Augustine's Pagan and Christian Audience
  • 05: The Problem of Suffering (Book 1)
  • 06: The Price of Empire (Books 2-3)
  • 07: Augustine's Political Vision (Book 4)
  • 08: Splendid Vices and Happiness in Hope (Book 5)
  • 09: Public Religion in Imperial Rome (Books 6-7)
  • 10: Who or What Is God? (Books 8-9)
  • 11: Sacrifice and Ritual (Book 10)
  • 12: Augustine's Critique of Rome (Books 1-10)
  • 13: Metaphysics of Creation and Evil (Book 11)
  • 14: Fall of the Rebel Angels (Book 12)
  • 15: Augustine and Original Sin (Book 13)
  • 16: The Two Cities and the Two Loves (Book 14)
  • 17: Augustine's Scriptural History (Books 15-17)
  • 18: Translating the Imperium (Book 18)
  • 19: Happiness and Politics (Book 19)
  • 20: Judgments, Last and Otherwise (Book 20)
  • 21: Augustine's Vision of Hell (Book 21)
  • 22: Heaven: The Self Redeemed (Book 22)
  • 23: The City of God as a Single Book
  • 24: The City of God's Journey through History
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Charles Mathewes

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