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Augustine, City of God. Augustine, City of God* 'Explicui tuos libros; neque
enim tam languidi aut inertes erant, ut me aliud quam ...
... Secondly, Augustine portrays the city of God. ... Works Cited: -Augustine, The City of
God - Paul J. Weithman in the Introduction to Augustine (page 298). ...
... Ed. Steven M. Cahn, New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 296-299 Augustine, “The City
of God”, Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy. Ed. ...
city of god. Around the time when St. Augustine wrote City Of God. Many leaders
felt the only way to find peace is through war. These ...
City of God. ... Some may say God gave man free will. Augustine strongly believes that
God’s foreknowledge does not minimize human freedom (Wogaman 53). ...
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Augustine, City of God*
'Explicui tuos libros; neque enim tam languidi aut inertes erant, ut me aliud quam se curare paterentur: iniecerunt manum, ereptumque aliis solicitudinum causis suis vinculis illigarunt ..., ut ego anceps sim quid in illis magis mirer, sacerdotii perfectionem, philosophiae dogmata, historiae plenam notitiam, an facundiae iucunditatem. ... Et usus es validissimo exemplo recentis calamitatis, quo licet firmissime causam muniveris, tamen si utrumvis licuisset, id tibi nolueram suffragari. Sed quando orta inde fuerat convincendorum stultitiae querela, necesse fuit inde argumenta veritatis accersere.' (ep. 154.2, Macedonius ad A. [413/4])
These are the words of the first reviewer of the first installment of ciu.[[1]] Vicar of Africa in the delicate year 413-414, after the uprising of Heraclian and the purge that followed, Macedonius was the ideal reader for the 'magnum opus et arduum,' poised between empire and church: he first wrote to A. (ep. 152) asking the bishop's views on the delicate matter of episcopal intervention in the affairs of state. A. wrote back at length (ep. 153), passing along a copy of the first three books of ciu.
It is good to heed the first reviewer's praises (for the happy combination of erudition and argument, doctrine and eloquence), and his regret (that the work dilates on the late catastrophe). His views give a useful perspective from which to consider the events of 410, and their echoes in Africa. That will lead naturally to a consideration of the contents and sources of the work as we have it; but first it will be useful to review the external facts as we have them for the composition and transmission of the work.
I. Dates of composition
The composition of ciu. occupied A. for at least a decade, perhaps fifteen years; cf. retr. 2.43.1. There are numerous indications of his progress on the work, from which a tentative schedule may be constructed. The...
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