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Augustine: De Civitate Dei X
Peter Walsh
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Description for Augustine: De Civitate Dei X
Paperback.
This edition of St Augustine’s The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods.
Following on from Book IX, this book discusses the issue of demons and their role ... Read more
This edition of St Augustine’s The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods.
Following on from Book IX, this book discusses the issue of demons and their role ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856688485
SKU
V9780856688485
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About Peter Walsh
†P.G. Walsh was Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Humanity at the University of Glasgow, and a Latin scholar of international renown. His publications include Livy: His Historical Aims and Methods (1961) and The Roman Novel (1970); editions of Augustine, De bono coniugali and De sancta uirginitate (Oxford); and translations of Paulinus of Nola (Letters, Poems) and of Cassiodorus, ... Read more
Reviews for Augustine: De Civitate Dei X
Reviews ‘...a good basic tool for students and scholars who wish to read and study Augustine's text in English with the possibility of consulting the Latin original.’ Bryn Mawr Classical Review