...D. Robert Maddox Calvinism City of God diaconate reversing the covenant curses secularization The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full...

...This chapter provides the text and translation of Book XI of St. Augustine's The City of God. It highlights how Augustine argued against those who follow Aristotle in maintaining that the universe has always existed and against the followers of Plato who admitted that the universe...

...This chapter provides the text and translation of Book XII of St. Augustine's The City of God, which resumes the discussion of the Creation and focuses on refuting standard objections to the Christian tradition. The natural goodness of all creation merits praise, and the reason why...

...This chapter includes the commentary on Book XII of St. Augustine's The City of God, which mentions the part of the work where the origins and the outcome of the two cities, the heavenly and the earthly, begin to be indicated. It talks about obtaining the knowledge of God, wherein...

...This chapter focuses on Book II of Augustine's City of God. It talks about Augustine's thoughts on faith, which demands an act of the will that transcends the purely intellectual faculty. It also looks at Edward Gibbon's expansion of the thesis on the fall of Rome in 410, which...

... and Kátia Lund’s City of God (2002). McCarthy Cormac No Country for Old Men the novel 2005 mimetic criminology No Country for Old Men film 2007 Yeats W B ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ poem 1928 cinematic mode of representation Lund Kátia director City of God Mann Michael director Miami Vice...

...This chapter focuses on Book X of Augustine's The City of God, which talks about demons that are in part identical with the lesser gods or 'good angels'. It argues that to achieve the blessed life an individual must worship the one true God alone. It also introduces...

...This chapter provides the text and translation of Book X of St. Augustine's The City of God. It discusses how Christ offers himself as both celebrant and sacrifice and how the holy angels of Christianity demand worship not for themselves but for the one true God. It also mentions...

...This chapter covers the commentary on Book X of St. Augustine's The City of God. It explains how Platonists have confined to the one God the conferment of true blessedness, whether on angels or on men. The point at issue is whether those who Platonists believe should be worshipped...

...This chapter provides the text and translation for Book VI of St. Augustine's The City of God, which adverts to the topic of life after death and changes tack to devote close attention to Terentius Varro's distinguished research on Roman religion. Augustine pays lip-service to his...

...This chapter provides the text and translation for Book VII of St. Augustine's The City of God, which resumes his analysis of Terentius Varro's Res Diuinae with a systematic scrutiny of his choice of the select gods, since worship of them occupies the preponderant...

... Nemesius Dillon John Constantinian Revolution Cybele Jupiter Dolichenus Sol Salus soteria Philosophy from Oracles City of God continence civic virtues purificatory virtues contemplative virtues exemplary virtues Ad Marcellam But if on the contrary the gods have neither the power nor...

...This chapter provides the commentary on Book VIII of St. Augustine's The City of God. It reviews the main thrust of Augustine's criticism that has been directed at the civic rituals that were based on the mythological accounts of the Graeco-Roman deities. The myths were enacted...

...This chapter covers Augustine of Hippo's pedagogy presented in his political work, City of God. It argues that Augustine's vivid description of earthly evils in Book 22.22–23 should not be taken as a literal expression of pessimism. The selection functions as a moral and spiritual...

.... Written in the safety of North Africa, the City of God (CG), begun probably in 412 but not finished until about fourteen years later, is both an intellectual masterpiece and a foundational book for the Problem of Paganism. Although the problem has somewhat different...

...In Saint Augustine's texts, bodies consistently evade wholeness, produce excess, affirm, and negate—and approach a God who likewise does all of these things. City of God describes several modes of what we might call corporeal excess—and in so doing, not only tends to textual...

... Achilles hero warrior magnanimous warrior philosopher Rome City of God emulation transcendence Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer (1827). Oil on canvas. 386 × 512 cm. (5417). Louvre, Paris, France. Photograph by Thierry Le Mage. Photograph © RMN-Grand Palais...

... Thomas H Jews ancient redemption armour Beza Theodore Donatists dragon Holy Trinity Resurrection Una City of God Abessa Corceca Archimago Sans Loy Money-changers Dissolution of the monasteries According to Augustine, the history of the community of the redeemed, of the invisible City...

...This chapter provides the text and translation for Book V of Augustine's The City of God, which begins with a discussion of fate that condemns the predictions of the astrologers, particularly their claim to foretell the future from the position of the stars. It looks at Augustine's...

...This chapter provides the original text and translation of Book III of Augustine's The City of God. It begins with a programmatic statement that demonstrates how Roman gods had encouraged rather than stemmed the moral degeneration of the community. It also emphasizes how Roman gods...