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Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans
Augustine
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Paperback. The first new rendition for a generation of one of the classic texts of Western civilisation. Editor(s): Dyson, R. W. Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Num Pages: 1278 pages. BIC Classification: HRC; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1392. Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. 1278 pages. Editor(s): Dyson, Robert. The first new rendition for a generation of one of the classic texts of Western civilisation. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HRC; JFCX. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 50. Weight: 1522.
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 civilisation. 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 one of the most important single contributions to the Cambridge Texts series yet published, of interest to students of ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought, theology, philosophy, and late antiquity.
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 civilisation. 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 one of the most important single contributions to the Cambridge Texts series yet published, of interest to students of ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought, theology, philosophy, and late antiquity.
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
1278
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Series
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1278
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521468435
SKU
V9780521468435
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Reviews for Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans
'Dyson's wonderfully lucid, carefully literal and historically sensitive translation … makes this the edition that most readers will now choose to consult … We must be grateful for this excellent new translation.' The Times Higher Education Supplement 'It reads remarkably well; it is elegant, generally succeeds in reproducing the rhetorical colouring Augustine frequently gives his argument, and, is remarkably faithful ... Read more