Augustine: The City of God Books III and IV

ISBN-13: 9780856687594 / Łaciński / Twarda / 2007 / 252 str.

Augustine;Peter Walsh

Opis

This edition of St Augustine's City of God 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.Text with facing-page translation, introduction and
commentary.