Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide
Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide by Gerard O'Daly
2020 | ISBN: 0198841248 | English | 384 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
2020 | ISBN: 0198841248 | English | 384 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
In this new and extensively revised edition, O'Daly takes into account the abundant scholarship on Augustine in the twenty years since its first publication, while retaining the book's focus on Augustine as a writer in the Latin tradition. He explores the many themes of City of God, which include cosmology, political thought, anti-pagan polemic, Christian apologetic, theory of history, and biblical interpretation. This guide, therefore, is about a single literary masterpiece, yet at the same time it surveys Augustine's developing views through the whole range of his thought. As well as a running commentary on each part of the work, O'Daly provides chapters on the themes of the work, a bibliographical guide to research on its reception, translations of any Greek and Latin texts discussed, and detailed suggestions for further reading.