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City of God

St Augustine of Hippo (AD 354–430) · De civitate Dei · PL 41, 13–804

  1. 1. Augustin censures the pagans, who attributed the calamities of the world, and especially the recent sack of Rome by the Goths, to the Christian religion, and its prohibition of the worship of the gods
  2. 2. A review of the calamities suffered by the Romans before the time of Christ, showing that their gods had plunged them into corruption and vice
  3. 3. The external calamities of Rome
  4. 4. That empire was given to Rome not by the gods, but by the One True God
  5. 5. Of fate, freewill, and God’s prescience, and of the source of the virtues of the ancient Romans
  6. 6. Of Varro’s threefold division of theology, and of the inability of the gods to contribute anything to the happiness of the future life
  7. 7. Preface
  8. 8. Some account of the Socratic and Platonic philosophy, and a refutation of the doctrine of Apuleius that the demons should be worshipped as mediators between gods and men
  9. 9. Of those who allege a distinction among demons, some being good and others evil
  10. 10. Porphyry’s doctrine of redemption
  11. 11. Augustin passes to the second part of the work, in which the origin, progress, and destinies of the earthly and heavenly cities are discussed.—Speculations regarding the creation of the world
  12. 12. Of the creation of angels and men, and of the origin of evil
  13. 13. Of the Fall of the First Man, Through Which Mortality Has Been Contracted
  14. 14. Of the punishment and results of man’s first sin, and of the propagation of man without lust
  15. 15. The progress of the earthly and heavenly cities traced by the sacred history
  16. 16. The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel
  17. 17. The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel
  18. 18. A parallel history of the earthly and heavenly cities from the time of Abraham to the end of the world
  19. 19. A review of the philosophical opinions regarding the Supreme Good, and a comparison of these opinions with the Christian belief regarding happiness
  20. 20. That Although God is Always Judging, It is Nevertheless Reasonable to Confine Our Attention in This Book to His Last Judgment
  21. 21. Of the Order of the Discussion, Which Requires that We First Speak of the Eternal Punishment of the Lost in Company with the Devil, and Then of the Eternal Happiness of the Saints
  22. 22. Of the eternal happiness of the saints, the resurrection of the body, and the miracles of the early Church

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Philip Schaff (ed.), Buffalo/New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886-1889. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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