The first four of its twelve books contain the origin of the two cities, the city of God and the city of this world; the second four contain their process or progress; the third four, the final books, their appointed ends. De civitate Dei contra paganos libri XXII - Page viiide Agustín (Santo, Obispo de Hipona) - 1924Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1891 - 540 pages
...second or mainly constructive section consists of twelve books, tracing the origin, growth, and end of the two cities, the City of God and the city of this world. The two sides are, however, necessarily intertwined, and this is especially the case in the earlier section,... | |
| Robert Wheler Bush - 1883 - 234 pages
...analysis and summary of the contents of all the twenty-two books, telling us that though it treats of two cities, — the city of God and the city of this world, — he has nevertheless called it after the name of the nobler and worthier city.1 Augustine's own... | |
| Catholic University of America - 1915 - 602 pages
...to come.5 The remaining twelve books constitute a history of the rise, the progress and the destiny of the two cities— the City of God and the City of the World.' It does not fall within the province of this dissertation to give a detailed criticism... | |
| 1916 - 702 pages
...misrepresentations of its assailants." He then explained the plan of his work, which in twenty-two books treated of the " two cities — the city of God, and the city of the world." He concluded: "And so, though all these twenty-two books refer to both cities, yet I have... | |
| William Patrick O'Connor - 1921 - 94 pages
...to come.5 The remaining twelve books constitute a history of the rise, the progress and the destiny of the two cities — the City of God and the City of the World.6 It does not fall within the province of this dissertation to give a detailed criticism... | |
| Leonard Krieger - 1989 - 224 pages
...human history nonetheless continued to be held together by its imputed force. Not only did the pattern of the two cities — the City of God and the City of Man — provide Augustine with the scheme for the organization of world history, but he went to great... | |
| Robert A. Nisbet - 392 pages
...cannot conclude consideration of Augustine's philosophy of progress without treatment of his doctrine of "the two cities," the City of God and the City of Man, and, above all, the abiding, relentless, and crucial conflict between them — a conflict that... | |
| David F. Wells - 1999 - 244 pages
...of his work, however, move from this particular tragedy to thinking more generally of the presence of the two cities, the City of God and the City of Man. in all of human history. It was thus that he came to formulate an understanding of providence,... | |
| Joe Holland - 2003 - 420 pages
...God" and "the Kingdom of Satan." As Leo noted, this division was long ago articulated by Augustine as two cities, the city of God and the city of this world, which in tum resulted from two loves, the love of God and the love of self. : 1t was clear from Leo's... | |
| David Fergusson - 2004 - 226 pages
...church than is found in much medieval political theory. To do this, he recalls Augustine's dialectic of the two cities, the city of God and the city of the world. Commentators have also drawn attention to assumptions shared with the late Middle Ages.... | |
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